Wynchar Camino 2025

• Walked on Camino: Labruge to Póvoa de Varzim, 9.8 miles in 6:03 hours
• Total walked: 11.5 miles, per Wynette’s watch.
• Elevations: still flat, we are walking by the ocean for Pete’s sake
• Hotel street: Avenida Mouzinho de Albuquerque
• Indian food lunches: 1, somehow we came to Portugal and are eating Indian food.
• On boardwalks: ~70%
• Boardwalk detours for maintenance: 1
• Laundry loads: 1

• Walked on Camino: Porto to Labruge, 9.0 miles in 5:09 hours
• Total walked: 9.92 miles per Wynette’s watch
• Elevation: +164, -148, between -36 feet and 39 feet, okay, there might have been some GPS glitches but it was way flat.
• Boardwalk detours due to maintenance: 1
• Number of people sharing a bathroom in our hotel: 8
• Wild calla lilies seen: hundreds, it’s the season apparently. Easter in a couple of weeks
• Waiting time at drawbridges: 10 minutes, while a tiny container ship passed, maybe 30-40 containers, there was a big lineup of pilgrims
• Pilgrims seen: hard to say, maybe about 100-200. We usually take lesser used Caminos so this was a lot for us.
• Women from New Zealand on their first Camino that we chatted with: 2

• Travel: Vigo to Porto, bus, 3 hours
• Fancy fresh fish dinner, recommended by our taxi driver, that we might have overpaid for at 60€, but it was fun to see the waiter expertly debone the fish.
• Vodafone SIMs purchased: Wynette got a physical SIM, I said “make mine e-“

• 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.

I really liked this photo and am trying to think of a reason to post it. So, I’ll talk about the weather. Note that we had a really sunny day today. Weather forecast is for warm and quite a bit of sun the next few days. We might have to get some early starts to stay comfortable.

Tonight there wasn’t a desk or table in our hotel room or anywhere else in the hotel that we thought to look. So we are now sitting in a coffee bar. Charlie ordered a decaf. I ordered a little pastry. They are open till midnight. A quiet place. Not even any music, but there is fútbol on the tv (soccer).

Last night we blogged in the breakfast room. Our “hotel” was a large house that someone had converted into a B&B with six guest rooms of various sizes.

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.