AWW 2015-24: Tesoureiro and beyond

Friday, 9 October 2020

Tesoureiro and beyond

10 walkers and 3 dogs met at the Cafe Tesouros da Serra for a pre walk coffee. (2 of the group resorted to cakes as well!)

Walkers: Sue, David, Roger, Frank, Alan, Ros, Martin, Sergio, Ken and Miriam plus Jasper, Rafa and Bica.

A fast pace was set by the leader

and we soon left the N2 behind and headed up through the cork trees towards the Miradouro. The view from the top was speactacular.

We walked some way along the ridge until heading back down to cross the N2 again. Then again we found ourselves in amongst beautiful cork trees, many of which had been newly stripped of the cork.

Then it was a short climb to the deserted village and back down again to the valley floor by Juncais.

It was starting to warm up considerably as we walked the length of the valley road,

passing by the pigs en route.

We were so busy taking photos of the litter of sleeping pigs, no one noticed the large black pig at the side of the road until Rafa decided to bark at it! The pig suddenly felt threatened by us all, so we backed off and allowed it to rejoin its mates. (Rafa having been put on the lead by now!)

It was then up the steep and stony path before stopping near the top for lunch. We all remarked on how many flies seemed to have joined us for lunch.

At least our dogs were quiet. Too tired to bark!!!

After lunch, we walked through the noisiest village of dogs we had heard of, before before striding out on the slow descent back to the valley floor. By then the temperature had risen quite considerably to 30 degrees and we were all feeling the heat.

Frank's stepping stones from a previous walk had been demolished so we had a hairy few minutes on one section. Even Sue was heard to utter quite an expletive for her!!! ( or was that beacuse Martin was filming her efforts!)

The final bit of shade for the day was through some nearly stripped cork trees and then it was a bit of a slog along the road back to the cafe.