Author: Charlie

• Oceans crossed: 1
• Airport walking: 2.4 miles, Madrid is a big airport, and we kind of messed up the transfer
• Indian dinners: 1, it was very good.

This covers all the bases when it comes to two wheeled vehicles.

As a side note, they have added some new signs in the Albuquerque open space area prohibiting e-bikes. They use an icon of a bike with an electrical plug, a good icon I think. I am assuming that the bike icon at the o’clock is an e-bike.

We were walking to the store from our hotel in the small town of Lebruge. What is the purpose of the painted spacer between the sidewalk and where the cars park? The street was not that wide.

I am a fan of interesting or unusual signs. Here is one from our elevator.

I puzzled over the icon in the upper right, not sure what it was prohibiting. I think I figured it out but I’m not sure. I encourage readers to give their opinion on the comments.
The lower right icon: I think I know what it is. They say that about all elevators although normally before you get on.

Easy to add and in my opinion better than a traditional bidet. I used it myself and I liked it. I am missing my washlet from home. The downside is that the water is not heated.

Today we started walking from Porto along the coast. Almost the whole way we were walking on boardwalks.

Boardwalks are pleasant to walk on, much nicer than pavement and not as hard as sand. There were some pilgrims but mostly local people. Periodically there are places to stop and rest.

More the benches discourage laying down presumably to prevent sleeping. But often you see these maybe by a different department.

And even this.

I’m not too sure the wire cables would make a comfortable hammock.

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Well, we’re doing it again. This time we are starting in Porto and will walk the Camino Portuguese. We walked it in 2016. In 2016 we walked the Central Route. This time we are walking the Coastal or Litoral Route, which has gotten very popular lately. We plan to end the Portuguese Route a few days before we get to Santiago and switch to the Camino Primitivo and walk the second half of that. In the menu above select “GMap of Route” to see our whole route.

This is a map of our first two days. 1. Matosinhos (suburb of Porto) to Labruge and 2. Labruge to Povoa de Varzim.