Portuguese Coastal, Part of the Primitivo, Week in Vigo
On caminos in Spain, they have concrete kilometer posts and people often leave stones on them. Sometimes people bring stones from home or pick them up along the trail. Each stone has a meaning to the person leaving it. Often they write something on the stone. This seems to be a Camino Portuguese variant of this. This is the only one we’ve seen so far.
The boardwalk passed the Estela Golf Club today. We were watching some players and the woman shouted a “bom Caminho” at us. We got about a dozen of those today.
In my youth I wasted a lot of my precious time on Earth watching golf on TV. Youthful indiscretion. But I did learn that on seaside golf courses, like Pebble Beach, putts break towards the ocean, or maybe it was away from the ocean. That made me think of the old joke about heaven and hell not being that different. In heaven you get to play golf all day and in hell you have to watch golf all day.
I think this is a ping pong table. I’m not sure if it was supposed to be this way or it warped. In any case it might be interesting to play. Then I thought that you could have a table that was constantly changing curvature in random ways. Would that favor the offense or the defense?
That’s me and Wynette in the corner but we’re not losing our religion.
We’re having a lot of fun. Finally remembered to take a selfie.
We both recently got smart watches Apple and Pixel. We use them to keep track of distances walked. We each have phones, of course, “i” and Pixel.
We are using the “Wise Pilgrim” app which is really nice. Mainly we use the map which shows the Camino path with all the variations. This makes it easy to stay on course. There are not as many yellow arrows on the Portuguese. There are two main paths, the central and the coastal. We walked the central in 2016 and now we are on the coastal. But there is a variant of the coastal called the litoral which consists of alternative routes to the coastal closer to the ocean. It can get complex.
I have the iOS version which shows where you are with a yellow arrow, as you see in the middle of the photo. Camino appropriate I guess. The Android version uses the Google blue dot. And I take my 11” iPad. For me, it is worth carrying the extra pound. And we take a lightweight Bluetooth keyboard that Wynette uses to type on her phone.
Luckily, just about everything charges with USB-C, except for my air buds and the keyboard. We purchased power blocks for European plugs which is nicer than using converters.
