With a good Portuguese-style breakfast under our belts, we set out on yet another sunny morning. Note that other than a few showers at night, we have not had a rainy day since arriving in Portugal. Very fortuitous! Fingers crossed that our sunny day luck holds.Though our route today was not as difficult as the climb to Rubiães from Ponte de Lima, it still presented its challenges. There were significant hills, steep ups and downs… not quite as a steep, but tiring just the same. David had downloaded the altitude profile once again and we were prepared for more hills and we found them.Early in the day, we came across the very first yellow marker ever placed on the Camino Portugues in the early 1990s. Father Elías Valiña, known as "the priest of the pilgrims," first started placing yellow arrow markers along the Camino Francés in the mid-1980s. As usual, the terrain on the path varied. We walked on cobblestone roads and ancient Roman roads, through towns where pilgrims left their…
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