Day 3 – Fão to Norther part of Viana do Costello

I have to say that today the Camino through another wrench in the fan.

First, I want to apologize to my daughter Diana and our friend Sheri. I made reservations for our Albergue yesterday, and I booked the location for the same day rather than the following day. It is clear that I need an assistant.

I realized my mistake half way through and I rushed to make a reservation and everything was booked, I found a place with an address in Viana do Costello, but (this is the big BUT), it was in the north outskirts of the city so it added another 7 miles to our journey, that was already difficult with many hills. According to my Apple Watch, I when up 35 floors.

So today’s walked was about 23 miles and the plan was 18 miles. No good. Diana, Sheri and I are very sore. The only good thing is that tomorrow is going to be only 14 miles to our albergue.

Now, all that aside, let’s talk about the walk. We started walking at 7:00 am, of course a lot of cobblestones but the morning grace us with a nice sunrise

We crossed the bridge to Esposende which was under construction and very scary to walk on the scaffolding outside the bridge. It was just crazy, I don’t believe that they will allow that in the US.

That’s just the beginning. In Esposende, we came across a protected area that floods at high tide and brings a lot of sea creatures from the ocean. I took a picture of our shadows looking toward the ocean

We saw a lot of Camino signs in addition to the directional yellow arrows. Here are some of the most interesting signs

Always, in El Camino you find statues of Saint James and today was different.

Today, my feet are happier, we had a section in the climb that was just dirt and Diana and I felt like goats, climbing the hill like nothing and our feet felt fantastic.

This was the church that we stop to rest and found out that our hotel booking wasn’t there and then I booked another one that was too far away. I have being fired by my daughter and I am not longer allow to book anymore albergues, possadas or hostels. As a pennant, I was told that I needed to climb all those stairs