13 go walking in the heat of the day

 AWW 19/5/21

14 AWW’s and 3 dogs assembled at the Tesouros da Serra café in Tesoureiro, near Alportel, for the customery team photo. From left to right: Ken, Frank, Miriam, Martin, Sue, Jan, Sergio, Dave, Karen, Roger, David, Brenda and Alan with Bica, Rafa and Mamas. 

We started earlier than normal at 9am as the temperatures were forecast to be in the 30s.  From the café we headed off down to the Ribeira Algibre where there was still plenty of water and it would prove to be very welcome as the day wore on.

 

Chatting as always!

Fancy a game of chase?

After the cool of the river, we headed on up into the hills followed by a steep downhill back down to another river valley where yet again we took advantage of the shade.

The views from the top made the long slow slog uphill  worth while and there was a great breeze that kept us reasonably cool.

Talk about the women chatting - not as much as the three musketeers who talked the whole way up the hill.

Lunch was taken in the hunters meeting place.  At least there was shade and somewhere to sit.  Brenda made sure the dogs had their lunch too!

After lunch it was downhill all the back down to the river valley where a deep water crossing suddenly became a place to throw caution (and bin liners) to the wind.

And then we walked back along the river valley. By now it was getting quite hot and the breeze had dropped. 

Finally back to the cafe where we were looking forward to cold beers and wine.  No wine, only small Cristal beer, no Coke Zero!! 

16.6 km, elevation of 470m. Temperature 31degrees!!

Time 4.5/5 hours.