March 6 – We left Casa Fernanda right after breakfast. Fernanda prepared breakfast for all of us. The hospitality is great here.

After breakfast we head out the door and we took a picture of our departure with Fernanda’s five dogs behind us. Just a mini DOB in this picture. The sun was out. This was a great start.

We headed to Ponte De Lima. It will be an easy walk. Just 15 mins into the walk we encountered this milestone marking how far we had walked and how many more kms left to Santiago De Compostela. We have 171.3 kms to go.

Here are the rest of the photos from our walk today. We also encountered a nice Portuguese lady who gave us oranges straight off her tree in her front yard. Here she is.

We did get lost right outside Facha and ended up at the statue of Saint John (S. João).

Again Karen’s Camino Angel put us back on track and we got on the right way to Ponte De Lima.

It was a wonderful picturesque walk. Views were breathtaking. We came across an altar to Santiago too.

We even walked on Roman roadways today.

Prior to reaching our destination today, we played at an outdoor gym.

Here are our food pictures on the way:

I took a picture of me putting my feet up and resting them for a bit.

We reached Ponte De Lima and took the following pics. You can see the new and the old medieval bridges in the pics. We will go see the old one closely tomorrow morning as part of it was built in Roman times.

We chose to stay at the Old Village Hostel for this night and cook our supper.

We shared our supper with three other pilgrims from Germany.

Only one DOB today:

Tomorrow we will go on to Rubieas. We will encounter the Beast. The locals call their vertical hill this name because it’s difficult to climb. It’s real name is Alto Da Portela Grande. We don’t know what we will do yet. You will have to find out on my next post. LOL. 😂

We walked 17.5 kms today to get to our hostel. FYI only.

Boa Noite Calgary!