Portugues Cobbles!

The hardest thing about walking the Caminho Portugués is not the terrain, but rather what you are walking on. For our five days in Portugal, we learned to embrace the cobbles. It’s amazing the amount of work that went into laying kilometer after kilometer of cobblestones on these country paths. While one didn’t have to deal with problems such as mud or ruts, the unevenness of the stones presented their own challenges. They were definitely slippery when wet! Nancy developed knee problems after our second day on them. But, before you know it, you cross into Spain at Valença and the cobblestone are gone forever! Magic?