Our Walk Along the Camino Portuguese

Birdwatching along the Camino Portuguese Camino Portuguese Pilgrimage As we left the albergue around seven this morning the sun was just coming up, turning the sky above the fields a beautiful golden pink. Alpriate is directly under the flight path of the planes landing at Lisbon International Airport, which seems to receive one jet about every  5 minutes, so the noise was fairly constant. The first stretch of trail took us across a nice field, and then down a somewhat busy stretch of road. There was quite a bit of traffic, but it might be less busy outside of rush hour. The road brought us to a small town where we stopped for a much-appreciated breakfast of pasties de nata and coffee at a bar.  After that, the arrows directed us to cross a bridge over the train tracks and continue down a road beside some abandoned buildings with plentiful interesting graffiti. Birds on the Camino Portuguese The next section of the trail took us along a boardwalk that runs through ...