We awoke to the sound of rain on the roof and after looking at the weather forecast it seemed wise to move on. We had chosen to got to Gaivota Camping in Barreiros.
Towing Kilometres – Today: 248 Cumulative: 13,652
Today we headed east to visit the Cathedral at Santiago de Compestela. We were aware that many thousands of pilgrims and hikers make the pilgrimage, the Camino de Santiago, along various routes to visit the remains of St. James believed to be buried here. The BBC recently highlighted the Camino in the series Pilgrimage: The Road To Santiago.
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Apart from the many ports and towns lining this area of Galicia’s coastline which we passed on our way to our destination, we have been blessed with two beaches adjacent to our campsite and we were keen to check them out.
Just a short walk from the campsite was the delightful fine white sandy beach of Lariño which stretches 2 kms towards the lighthouse, El Faro, at Punta Ínsua.
Today, we continued our trek northward and back into Spain.
The route was of approximately 270km on toll motorways passing near Braga, Vigo, and Pontevedra, places we will have to visit on another trip.
Our rough plan is still to visit Scandinavia this summer so we need to press on north a bit.
We were heading for Camping Ancoradoiro, in Galicia.
Towing Kilometres – Today: 267 Cumulative: 13,404
The campsite is about 100 metres from an excellent white sand beach and would serve as a base to visit Santiago De Compostela and spend some R&R time on the sand.
We had promised ourselves an afternoon/evening visit into Porto to the historical centre of Ribeira.
Having re-loaded our metro card with 2 titles for the return trip we headed back to Trindade.
We knew our time would be too short to take in everything Porto has to offer but as always that’s a good excuse to return in the future.