Santiago de Compostela - (Day3) Camino Portuges - Ponte de Lima - Rubiaes (19km)
August 3rd 2004 Ponte de Lima - Rubiaes (19km)
Day 3
Ponte de Lima - Rubiaes (19km)
Woke at 0600 and headed off by 0640. The morning was still dark and cool with a lot of fog of which we had to start looking very closely for the Yellow Arrows to show us the way. (On the previous trip the group missed an arrow and went the wrong way, they had a difficult start. So we all had to be on the look out for the e
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Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more 
