AWW Walk report – 24 January 2024 –
RIBBA A TERINHO
15 walkers and 2 x dogs. Tony, Peter, Marian, Miriam, Julie, Ken, Jill, Tim, Geoff, Sue, Dan, Trudy, Russ, Linda, Alan the photographer and the 2 x dogs Bicca and Toby. (Welcome back to Trudy and Dan our Canadian friends).
We met in Rasmalho and then
drove 3kms further up the road to the start of the walk. On behalf of Linda, Geoff asked the group to
try and keep together and Alan offered to be back marker. We started out at 10.15am.
The
only wildlife today were cows who looked very surprised to see us, too big for
Toby to try and catch.
We enjoyed some shade as we walked beside the gushing river.
Lots of flat sections to get us warmed up.
We were starting to spread out even though the water crossings were easy.
Now it was time to head up the valley one of the only main
hills of the day.
The front group rested in the shade whilst Linda rounded up
the back group. Then it was lots of flat
walking, enjoying the lovely views from the hill tops.
We were enjoying some amazing January weather so took lunch
in the shade where we could enjoy the lovely views back down to the coast.
We headed off along the flat, zig zagging round the valleys.
We had one more steepish hill and then it was a nice
downhill stroll back down the valley whilst enjoying a nice afternoon breeze.
The water crossings were very easy today.
Just a few muddy puddles but no other people, no houses, no cars, no tarmac. Just beautiful Algarve sunshine, great countryside, healthy air and good companionship.
Back to the café for the post walk drinks and a very relieved Linda as there were no incidents this week. The walk was 16 kms as advertised.
I did the same walk on the 8 February 2023 and the weather was completely different, we even had to eat our lunch standing up.....see
Thank you for joining me in this lovely part of the Algarve and thank you to Alan for the photos and Trudy for the extra ones. See you all soon.
Linda
PS Map & Stats:
Truly wonderful weather, though I seem to recall more hills and less flat areas than Linda noted. Great to see Russell back, and Tim's second AWW walk. Altogether, a great day out...shame about the photo of me though!
ReplyDeleteNot my photo but mine back at the cafe were not any better.
ReplyDeleteSuper walk
ReplyDeleteA very pleasant walk in spring -like conditions, in fact summer is more like it. And plenty of good company. I well remember last year's walk, as Linda points out, torrential rain while eating our sarnies.
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