Portuguese Coastal, Part of the Primitivo, Week in Vigo
WynChar Diary, April 17
Camino walking: Vigo to Redondela, 8.0 miles in 4:08, moving 3:04
Elevation: up 70 feet, down 565 feet, we took a taxi from the hotel about 2 miles and up about 500 feet, which we lost going into Redondela
Total walking per Wynette’s watch: 10.93 miles
Flight of stairs equivalent (up) per Wynette’s watch: 17. (Many more than that downhill, but her watch doesn’t give you credit for those.)
Missed turns where we had to backtrack: 2, we were chatting.
Cute coffee places: 1. A woman who lived along the Camino converted her house into a coffee shop.
Fabada Asturianas missed: 1, we have been looking for this and we didn’t notice the chalkboard at the little coffee place noted above, until we’d finished eating something else.
Steep tunnels: 1, right near the end, as we were going down into Redondela, luckily it had a hand rail, it was quite steep in there.
We walked along a Portuguese Coastal variant that was also one of the Vias Verdes or greenways (https://viasverdes.com/en/). Spain has been converting disused railroad tracks into greenways. They have well over 100 of them. They are marked with wavy lines filled with green (see photos)
It rained off and on all day but there was no wind and fairly warm.
Wavy line to indicate green way (although this part happened to go through a residential area)Coffee place on the way.Menu board we missed. But a nice place to sit.Tunnel going into Redondela
