Sunday night date night in Vila do Conde



 



 Made it to Vila do Conde! So happy we shaved 10 miles off this walk yesterday. It was a long long way. It took about 5 hours and almost the entire walk was on boardwalks. At first I thought ‘how quaint’ but by the end of the day  we were actually glad for some road walking. 

We saw about 5 other people on the Camino -that’s it! I spoke to one couple. He was from Italy and his partner from Poland. We’ll probably see them again in town. 

Hotel Brazao here is very clean and seems to have been remodeled recently. Highly recommend.Today is Sunday so no shops open, but restaurants will be open at 8 pm. We’ve got trail mix and granola bars to last till then. 

Found a place  before 8 luckily that did 7 euro pilgrim meals, and ate early so now have time to sit in laundromat. What fun! We’ll be heading to bed early, tomorrow is a 20 mile day. Today not quite that much  distance, but wish my bag was lighter. Peter’s been eating the trail mix fast to lighten his load! 




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