Amazigh experience shows lots of young folk from Eastern Europe about ... Dimitri and friend from Russia on staff, Thomas and friend from Hungary surfing for a week or two, a Ukrainian couple at the cafe in Arrifana, a Latvian couple arrived on foot from Zambujeira ... today at Hakuna Matata a Polish pair check in along with other hikers on the Vicentina, some going North, most going South ...whilst iaround town folks from further east in evidence ... Nepalese finding work picking the fruit and veg grown on the sandy soil hereabouts. .. nutriments added with the water ...
An early start enables 40 km day ... out in the dark along known route, waking the dogs at the shelter, past the campsite before dawn seeps in slowly, due to cloud cover, which produces a little rain before Odeceixe, making the cobbled descent into town rather tricky ... fast pace on firm tracks means the first 18 km is done by 10 am ...
After crossing the Seixe, the border between the Algarve and Alentejo, rain turns heavier and wind picks up, making for a challenging stage on soft sand tracks close to the cliff edge ... and a change of clothes plus picnic at the closed restaurant 9km before Zambujeira, though a missed marker means an extra couple of kms via a very large field of lettuce, easily entered, but needing a fence climb to exit onto a road, leading to Brejao and finally back to the coast ... exactly the unintended diversion from last time, learning process clearly slowing down ...
Finally at the hostel for 4.30, tired and ready for a hot shower ... weather not conducive for a swim ... perhaps as well ... storm forecast to pass by tomorrow, whether to stay a day or head for Almograve is a question for the morning ... evening meal at restaurant overlooking sunset seascape needing extra imagination or return when the sky is clearer ... divine chocolate mousse may influence the decision ...
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