Heat Wave: Our Last Walking Day
Save the best for last: a walk during a heat wave. Willeke and I wake up early, that is for us early: 6:30, and we like to go 7:00. I know the pilgrims who sleep at Casa da Lima, went even at 4:00.
My idea was to walk to Aljiezur because our bus leaves from Aljiezur to Lagos in the evening. Since that is a bit further than to the beach Arrifana and we desperately need to cool down in the sea, we decide to walk the normal path to Arifana, and arrange a lift from the beach to the town Aljiezur. It starts already with a lot of questions marks. We can’t walk via the coast when there is a lot of water. But when is it? We only know it was high tide at 4:00, it is now 7:30 so we just go, should be possible. Every step closer to the sea makes us question more, and then, I see we can cross this water, not so deep but we had to walk all the way to the front near de sea. Shoes out, and on to the beach, where we walk on the hard sand. This is not so difficult yet! We were warned by a blog of Co, who wrote there was a lot of soft sand….
We see t some tents of people who are camping outside, but we also see policia maritime driving around. I guess that the police can’t stop the people who put their tents on the abandoned places, On the other hand, the police will now where the interesting camp places are.
A Lift?!
We rest in the shade of a solitary house full of graffiti. There is a woman sitting on a chair looking at the sea. She doesn’t really react to us, sitting down against her house. I thank her and she starts to talk a little bit, when she found out I speak Portuguese. Yes, after some years, I can do Portuguese chit chat.
I think we arrive an hour to late because it is already too hot to walk. Willeke suddenly walks to a sign on the other side of the road to sit in the shade. Why, I think?
This Dutchy is boiling. We decide to stop walking. We see a friendly Portuguese woman, and she brings us to The Bakery, a nice cake shop, from foreigners, A friendly woman from New Zealand married to a Dutch guy. We rest and sit there for a long time. The smoothy and vegan chocolate cake gives us new energy.
Now to the beach, we get a lift of a tourist family from Switzerland to the beach and we jump in the sea. We don’t stay long because we need to get out of the sun. We rest at a cafe and then we try to get a lift to Aljiezur. Two young women, who just finished their Surf lessons, stop and they bring us to Aljiezur. Next to the surf school where they are staying they had a dance party in the forest somewhere and came back at 4:00. She had very long fake eyelashes, we just wondered how they survive the big waves…
And who knows they would go to Lagos at night to go out. I told you in the first blog of this caminho: Lagos is the place to go!
This is our Portuguese angel of the day, she was carrying her waste form the business, and had a lot of things to do. However, she was stil so friendly to take us to The Bakery.
