Warm farewells from Joana last night, Diana this morning ... John and Rosemary apparently the last two customers, though that may change ... Rosemary, from Edinburgh, writes under the name Eliza Earsman, has several books published, working on another here ... calmly convinced of the literal truth of the Bible, though not concerned to proselytize ...
Since the flight north is this evening, since the sky is clear, Sun warm, breeze cool, and since legs are eager, the plan is three hours west to Fuseta for lunch, train to Faro, final 5km walk to the airport ... Ecovia providing off road route along the coast ...
Restauranta Alota for the third visit and friendly greeting, wonderful meal and early enough to miss the Saturday rush ... the doubling of the weekday price paid without blinking ... equanimity maybe assisted by spare euros ... and at the airport the most expensive coffee in Portugal at €1.60 ... airport staff get 25% discount ... airports being more like shopping centres ... with a great scam of denying passengers the right to bring water or other liquids through security and charging exorbitant prices for it on the other side ...
Rob, our pilot, tells us we are passing Porto and will be over Santiago de Compostela soon ... which feels slightly surreal ... it's ten days walking. ..
And so, uneventfully, to a wintry Newcastle, a walk across the road to the hotel ...equanimity mixed with weariness, since after midnight is long past bedtime ...
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