A day of bad luck


City Hall


Incredible gardens

 There must be a reason why nothing went right today😫.

We got up at a leisurely time and after an in-house breakfast we headed to the bus station on foot. We had been told that we shouldn’t miss Braga so we tried our damndest to get there. First Google lead us astray on the walk over long enough to miss the bus we wanted so we waited 1:45 hours for the next one. Then we realized that we needed to transfer in Barcelos and for some reason the transfer bus didn’t show up for another 2 hours, long enough to make us decide to order an Uber. It was difficult to make the decision to pull the plug and order the Uber because we were sure once we did, the bus would have shown up. And sure enough. It did!

So we arrived in Braga at about 3pm - starved! We ate lunch 


and headed to the place we had rented on Booking.com. Nice spot but the place had not been cleaned since the last occupants 😫 so just when all we wanted to do was settle in, we had to leave for an hour while the cleaners tidied up. 

We checked out the Church of Santa Cruz which had incredible accoutrements as you can see here.





Managed to run into a man who works at the tourist office who insisted that we follow him to his place of business. Turns out he has done 13 Camino’s and has served in various capacities at Albergues and pilgrim offices. Cirila was able to communicate with him because of her Spanish. 


The two unfamiliar faces in the middle work at the tourist office. The guy in the blue shirt is Cirila’s new boyfriend 😉

We had been told that we could get a pilgrim blessing at the Cathedral (AKA Se) at 7pm so we made our way over there only to have the door slammed (maybe just pulled shut) in my face. Guess the info we had was outdated or something. At least we had the walk.

So this morning we take a taxi back to the Central Portuguese camino and begin our walk. Next stop: Casa de Fernanda!



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  1. Helen GrahamAugust 30, 2022 at 12:06 PM

    Thanks for sharing your great adventure, better luck tomorrow!

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