We decided that today we would walk a shorter distance since yesterday was so challenging. It’s important to know when to push ahead and when to go slow in order to complete the journey rather than go home early due to injury or some other reason. The girls have been repeating the slogan that our boss, JF, at the orchard taught them during apple picking season…”it’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon!”.

It was a much more relaxed day on account of the lower kilometres to be covered. The girls were gathering flowers and singing again along the way…we made the right choice!

We walked through the lovely Portugués country side. The road was lined with acres of olive trees. We felt nestled and shaded by them. Our hearts were full.

When we arrived at our accommodation for the night we were informed that the power was out not just in Portugal but all across parts of Europe. They said that this kind of thing doesn’t normally happen and gave us some scary reasons as to what might be going on…enemy submarines in Spanish waters and such!!! Of course my mind always goes to the wildest extreme…I started thinking that we were probably over here with nothing but a backpack and WW3 was about to break out!!! Great!!!

Fortunately, the power came back on about an hour ago and I have stopped internally hyperventilating!!!! lol!!!