Ola Portugal

Despite all good intentions it’s getting harder to get up too early so we didn’t leave the camp until 10am, had a short drive of 230km (3 hours approx.) to get to Caminha where we found a lovely beachside camp, about 2km from the small town.  

We arrived at 12.30 pm (time went back an hour).  Driving in Portugal worse than Spain as police everywhere and speed limits not posted.  Tomtom had a laugh at our expense, made us leave the main road for a goat track, which ended in an extremely tight road to get back on the main route.  The mirrors of Mildred nearly touched the houses both sides!  Pleased I wasn’t driving.

Last night we took a bottle of wine to the beach to watch the sun set.  We didn’t get to see it over the horizon due to fog, but it was still very romantic.

Today we biked into town for another look around and intend on moving on tomorrow.  Nice camp site and cheapest yet €15 pn. Toilets have no seats nor t/paper!


We walked thru the town to the back streets, past all the tourist stuff and stumbled upon a better/bigger supermarket and beside it was this cafe called Befe-Come it was packed with locals, all the tables (paper cloths) full of plates of food and wine bottles.  We couldn't resist.  The two front staff where amazing coming out wtih food, wine etc flat out.  Most of the workers had a bottle of wine to themselves, before heading back for the afternoon's work.  One beer, one bottle of wine, bread basket and two huge plates of local food Euro 10.  Amazing.  To the supermarket for dinner supplies, then home.  Total cost today iclud accommodation Euro 35.


Below is a summary of our tour to-date.