Day 5 - Vale De Figueira to Golega 23km

Had a lovely meal outdoors at a restaurant last night. The menus are becoming a little more understandable, the staff are so friendly, and it is always so warm.



The Santarem Hostel was much busier last night. There were pilgrims from Belgium, Australia, Holland and Germany. Also, the owners sons were home (with their Irish friend, a guy from Naas). It is such a classy place - sorry we didn't take some photos of it.



We took a taxi forward on the camino this morning to the point we got to yesterday - Vale De Figueira. An very nice Australian lady shared the taxi with us - her back pack is really big so I don't know how she manages. We were walking by 8.15am at a temperature of 19 degrees - it crept up to the low 30s during the day.

Kieran and Mary tuck in!

We have really left the tomato fields behind and didn't see so much in the way of vines. But really the day was all about maize, field after field of it.



Walking kilometre after kilometre in 30C can be hard going. However it is worse where you are directed off the main track for reasons that appear to relate to commercial politics. The waymarking (which was really excellent today) took us off the mapped route to the town of Azinhaga - so rather than being 5km from the stage finish we were 7km - when you're tired this is not good news, and it also resulted in us spending more time walking a dangerous road rather than across farmland.

A Camino waymarker on a cork tree.

If our accommodation the last two nights was super, tonight in Golega is as good. We have a two room suite in a period property, with breakfast, all for €60, see picture below.













Big walk tomorrow. Hope to walk 30km to get us to the ancient city of Tomar. With the heat we have shortened our walks a little, but it would be good to make it to there tomorrow. So, we hope to be up by 6am and on the road by 7am.



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