Mrs. Ego sent me a text from the kitchen of our hostel in Lisbon, saying she was heading into the bathroom. I responded that I was starting my workout and asked that she please knock on the door to our private room before entering (she had the key) as I was going to hang my TRX suspension trainer from the door. She did not see my text, came back to the room and opened the door while I was hanging from it. Splat.
The next morning my wrist was double its size. Five days out, the swelling has gone down so that it looks just about normal except that it is black and blue nearly to the elbow. I have about 90% range of motion. It throbs at night.
We decided to hang out in Lagos for a few weeks. Back in 1993 when the Portuguese Escudo was still in use, we spent Thanksgiving to New Years here in the '75 VW Westfalia campervan we had purchased in London. While the town itself is virtually indistinguishable, the campsite has not changed at all.
2Birds1Stone wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 2:32 pm
Nice! i would either skip the sections from Lagos to Sagres by taking the bus, or if you decide to walk them, do the first two in a single day, they are both short and not that exciting. Once you get to Sagres and head north it gets pretty incredible.
There is quite a bit of walking on soft sand, so be mindful with footwear choice and empty the sand from your shoes/socks often. I wish we had acquired or DIY'd some gaiters to wear over our ankles. We used low trail runners and the sand was a PITA.
We start in Porto Covo on the 27th. Mrs. Ego's Salomon Amphibian shoes will not work with the sand. We figure we have a few weeks to come up with gaiters and search the thrift stores in town for boots or hiking shoes. Lagos is the end of the trail so we may get lucky to find footwear someone discarded after the hike.
chenda wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 5:25 pm
Re the fisherman's trail if you want to sun or swim in secluded bays there's a lot between praia da luz and sagres, the coastline is much less developed than towards Lagos. Salema and Burgau are nice little coastal villages. North of sagres is indeed spectacular.
Thank you! We ran out that way yesterday. It was beautiful.