The last day of this phase. The kindly B&B owner drove me back to my starting point in Cabeca Gorda and I strolled the last 14km back into town. I wanted a short day as I had heard about a visigothic museum in town which was open in the afternoon which certainly sounded like it needed a visit.
The walk was virtually entirely off tarmac and flat.
And led through some gorgeously green olive groves.
And I got to make a cross and put into a fence. On the more widely trodden camino there are thousands of such crosses, wherever there is a suitable wire fence. I like to think I did the first one on this route!
Then into Beja and a nice lunch where a table of friendly Brazilian women insisted on translating every item on the menu for me, and then helped to order from the waitress.
Beja should be better known: the Visigothic museum in a church was a sensational reminder of the skill of these early settlers in Iberia.
And of course, as always in Portugal, there is a reminder of the world's finest engineers, the Romans.
So this was the end of this part of the Nascente. I thoroughly enjoyed the walk so I will be back to restart from Beja. Only 488km to go to Trancoso, the end of the Nascente. How I will get from Trancoso to Santiago is a problem for another day.
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