Thursday, May 23, 2024 – Muxia, Spain to Vilarinho, Portugal

This will be a short post because today was a travel day. I got up at 5:00 AM to walk to the bus station in Muxia to catch a 6.15 AM bus to Santiago. I had a 90 minute layover in Santiago and then caught a bus to Porto.

I got into Porto at about noon and Googled restaurants around the bus station. An Indian restaurant piqued my interest and I thought I would give it a shot.

The woman who owned the restaurant waited on me and she was so nice. She asked if I wanted my food to be without spice. I told her I wanted a very mild spice, not real spicy.

I ordered chicken saag, chicken in a spinach sauce, and boy was it spicy, and not very good.

The first stage of the Portuguese Central is mostly walking out of Porto through the industrial zone. I didn’t really want to start my Central Portuguese Camino by walking through long stretches of ugly Porto.

It was easy for me to walk over to the taxi line at the bus station and the older gentleman who was first in line was more than happy to drive me out to my alburgue.