Roman Legions and Medieval Bridges : Valinhas to Ponte da Lima
Roman Legions and Medieval Bridges Camino Portuguese Pilgrimage Today we slept in until around 6 AM, and then made a leisurely start, heading out into a cool, overcast morning. We walked about two kilometres to the first cafe, where we stopped for coffee and chocolate croissants. We were soon joined by the lovely German couple who had walked to Santiago from their home, and later on we were joined by a few additional pilgrims. After breakfast, we continued on through a lovely forested section of track. It was filled with cala lilies and other wildflowers that seemed to have opened in the last few days. We have been enjoying the more relaxed, quieter, rural nature of the trail since Porto. After this section, the Camino mostly consisted of paved or cobblestone lanes between short stone walls, on the other side of which were vineyards, houses with wonderful flower-filled gardens, or fields of wildflowers, some with sheep and horses. As we hiked we passed qui...