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Breakfast by the river and then headed up to the tourist office to find some info on walks in the national park. The woman who in her words ´spoke little English´ proceeded to give us a detailed analysis of all the walks in the entire park. The maps were amazing and it really put the Picos de Europa´s tourist info service to shame. So, if you´re ever passing through there make a stop, Ponte da Barca Turismo - the dog´s balls of info centres.
We managed a four hour walk through some lovely and not so lovely countryside of nothern Portugal, we got a bit lost as the forest rangers or whoever maintains these paths hadn´t got around to trimming back some serious foliage / asking for permission to cross farmlands, so the walk kind of petered out and we had to find alternative routes.
Back in the van we had planned to take another route to further into the park to do another walk the next day, however, the road signs in Portugal are about as good as the forest rangers and we ended up near the coast. Change of plan and for the best really we felt, as we had been missing the beach (more than one day away is too much) and a chance for a free wash.
Marinhas was where we ended up stopping after some deliberation and had a lovely meal and wine sitting on the end of a boardwalk watching some amazing sunsets. I have to say the best sunsets in Europe so far have been sitting at the ocean edge in Portugal.
A friendly French fellow campervan dude came to tell us that the beach bar we were parked beside would be starting up its music for the night at about 12 ish and would last for about 2 hours. So our lovely spot for the night was no longer and we drove to a nearby village where we were closely scrutinised for several minutes by locals but we were too tired to care. Luckily we had an uninterrupted sleep and as soon as we woke up we drove back to our lovely little spot and had brekky there instead with two little dogs scruffy 1 and scruffy 2.
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