Author: Charlie

I’m not sure what you aren’t supposed to do here. But you can see some nice Portuguese tile.

This was just a fun graphic.

We love the boardwalks. They’re nice to walk on and, this is not a property of boardwalks per se but it is true for this walk, they are by the ocean. We think there will be boardwalks all along the coastal trail, so for five or six more days.

We read that some of them get covered with sand. Sand is much harder to walk on.

You can see how deep it gets, even covering the boardwalk posts.

Today we walked some with steps.

Hundreds of miles of boardwalks must be quite a maintenance problem.

The upside is that this creates work that AIs can’t do (yet).

Our deck at home is fake wood but these seem to be treated, real wood. You can see lots of knots.

They mostly are by the ocean.

Sometimes through woods and by golf courses.

Of course, I really wanted to make some reference to the Drifters “Under the Boardwalk” but these boardwalks don’t have anything underneath them like some SoCal boardwalks.

• Camino walking: Carreço to Villa Praia de Âncora, 9.2 miles in 5:57 hours
• Altitudes: 272 feet up and 302 feet down (26 flights of stairs)
• Total walking: 10.88 miles
• Times we retraced our steps: 3, our Wise Pilgrim app had some small errors. We were already in a field when the path ended and it was getting boggy.
• Dinners from the ALDI: 1, we have a beautiful kitchen here so we bought a lot of food for dinner. We were hungry when we were shopping so we got a bit extra but not too bad.
• Boardwalk walking: ~25%, we finally got back to some boardwalks, some were inundated with sand.
• Today the cool weather came and the walking was much nicer. We even had a little rain. It looks like rain, off and on, for the next week.

Pretty fancy skirt (shiny red satin). And we have seen people delivering drinks, basically beer, a number of times and this was the first woman we have seen doing it.

This was several hundred feet from the shore.

I like to see playgrounds to see how they are different from ones I usually see in the US. This one had a nautical theme.

• Camino walked: Anha to Carreço 10.1 miles in 6:35 hours. This included, as usual, stops for breakfast and lunch.
• Altitudes: 217 feet up and 374 feet down, this was all at the beginning before we got to the ocean. Wynette’s Fitbit says we climbed the equivalent of 21 flights of stairs. (It only counts going up, not going down.)
• Total walking per Wynette’s watch: 11 miles. We did have a gps anomaly today where my Wikiloc distance was a mile more than my watch distance. These computers, what are you gonna do?
• Today was hot, 81 and humid, but there was a nice breeze by the ocean which helped a lot. When we got to the lunch place we downed a 1.5 liter of water before lunch. Our host tonight said this hot weather, three hot days in a row, was unusual. But tomorrow it will be cloudy with some rain. We are looking forward to that.
• Delivery persons spotted in red satin skirt: 1 (see separate post)
• English breakfasts eaten: 1 each. Well, it was a variation, no beans or blood sausage. But there were little sausages and bacon and ham and cheese and eggs and fresh-squeezed orange juice and toast and coffee. 8 euros each. It was more than we wanted, but it’s what they had for breakfast. Nice bar in Viana do Castelo. Fun waitress.