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Camino Day 2


Today was more coastal boardwalks, then through a mid-size city, then more coastal boardwalks, then some back roads in farm country. The albergue that I planned to stay at filled up by 3pm and I ended waling an additional 8km, making this a 28km day in total from Labruge to Apulia.

I'm second guessing some of my decisions. I stuck with the coastal route today (meaning I'm committed for the next couple of days) but I had the opportunity to take a more inland route and now I wonder if that would have been more "nature-y". I could have stopped in the city and saved my legs. I could have gotten more stamps if I had planned differently, etc.

Tomorrow will be a shorter day so I can recover. My host says it's easier to find albergues between here and the Spanish border

in reply to Jen Blight

Are you communicating mostly in Spanish/Portuguese? Or do people know some English?
in reply to Jen Blight

People in Lisbon and Porto mostly knew English and the albergue hosts so far have used English. Some of the people in the towns I'm going through only speak Portuguese and it's not similar enough to either French or Spanish for me to understand so there are interactions that consist entirely of Gesture and Context Clues