{"id":1581,"date":"2023-03-20T18:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T18:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/?page_id=1581"},"modified":"2023-04-20T08:00:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T08:00:18","slug":"portugal-8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/portugal\/portugal-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal – 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Arrifana to Carrapateira<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Balls’d up this morning big time. I started off up the cliffs even though I saw no way-markers. Ended up off the track making it up as I went along. Sticking close to the sea had me up and down some shitty slopes and struggling along boulder strewn beaches. I was down to 1K an hour. Gave up and struck inland-ish and eventually reconnected with the trail. Must have added 2 hard hours on to my trip. 7 hours instead of 5 today – f’d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hard to see. but peeps up and surfing already.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Early morning sun gives you giant legs. The little wave, or shark fin bollards were the point of this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I’ve just come down that slidy as fuck thing right on the edge and up this steep slope. Of course, I could have just walked along the beach and then climbed this hill. Dumb Shit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A better shot of the surfer beach and Arrifana above. Just about got my wind back. Thought I was going to throw again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Once there was three but now a lone soldier braves the waves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The river has cleaned everything away and now runs on a bed of rock.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fuck me bendy! but that was exciting getting down from there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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1K of ankle breakers coming up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Look at those lovely gentle trails further back that I couldn’t see. Weep! Oh world! Weep for your wayward son. I decided not to keep along the coast. Although it’s much shorter, it is far too dangerous on your own. So, up this road to see where it takes me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Up in the hill country again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Damn fucked off and slightly lost in the woods face.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Success at last. Back with the way-markers. Such joy a simple thing brings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The red rusty road through the pines and even though I’m well knackered – feeling good.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Had no breakfast. Nowhere to get any. Wishing I hadn’t thrown away my nuts, apple and banana from when I was sick the other day. You can just about see the beach. 3 miles to go, then another 3 to the village.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Just about make out Arrifana behind those nasty looking dark cliffs. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nice beach at Carrapateira.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The village is way up there beyond those massive dunes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Those bloody pigeons are stealing the poor cow’s meal. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I should have turned right here to digs but I’m off up the hill in search of lunch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Up there to the main street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’m wondering if I’ve reached my limit. Today was too hard. Although that was partly my own fault so, maybe I should give myself a break. Still nothing from the old bod by way of ramping up to deal with the pain the way it would have done even 20 years ago so, I assume it is not going to and I’m just creating a problem for the future. Yap and whine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arrifana to Carrapateira Balls’d up this morning big time. I started off up the cliffs even though I saw no way-markers. Ended up off the track making it up as I went along. Sticking close to the sea had me up and down some shitty slopes and struggling along boulder strewn beaches. I was down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":675,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1581","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1581\/revisions\/1588"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}