Day 4 – Viana do Costello to A Guarda

After a very hard previous day, we started our morning a 7:15 am with coffee and high spirit. We when to a coffee shop next to our albergue, got a nice “cafe o Leite” (cafe con leche in Portuguese) and a pastry, so good. We noticed on the wall, a world map with pins from people that have visited them, of course, we marked where we came from. Such a great idea

Today, while walking, I looked at flowers along the camino and I missed my wife and my daughter Elena. Elena loves Sunflowers, Paula loves hydrangeas and purple flowers. Here are a few pictures.

While you are doing the camino, there are so many religious signs reminding you about Christ. These are a few pictures that I took along the way

The path today was easier but with challenges along the way, we did have cobblestones path but not as much as the previous 3 days, nice eucalyptus forest with great eucalyptus smells. My feet don’t hate me as much as before, but they are very sore.

We came across the town of Villa Pria do Ancora and they were getting ready for a big festival, the main church have the Virgin Mary ready to be parade in the town, the streets were dress up and the circus was in town. Also there was a stand being setup for all king of cocktails that I want Jeff to notice.

Walking along the seashore was beautiful but the win was strong. There were benches and swings along the way and people were enjoying the morning watching the ocean, it felt so relaxing

We were getting close to Camiñha to take a boat to A Guarda. At this location, you cross the border in the middle of the river. The sigh were every where to hire a water taxi. I found this one from Popeye but couldn’t find the bugger

Any way, we arrived at the end of the Portugal border to take the water taxi to A Guarda shoreline, Spain, and we find this guy that looks like he had a hard night the day before. We paid the money and we departed.

It was a crazy, fast and bumpy ride. Diana was jumping on her seat. He dumped us on shoreline, Spain side. Diana and I felt like pirates invading another country, I felt very illegal.

We walked another 3 miles to small flat we rented for the night. The view of the A Guarda bay from the window of the flat was amazing.

We showered and went downstairs for an early dinner, 7:30 pm, very early for Spanish people. We sat on a table looking at the bay enjoying some Mencia wine and eating fantastic seafood