Camino Portugués
from Porto
to Santiago de Compostela

View from the bridge	Coat-of-arms in stone
Looking back towards Ponte de Lima
Quinta de Sabadão	Quient coutnry lane with the A-7 motorway
	The country lanes are a welcome feature of this section
	The Camino twists beside the motorway
	and passes over a makeshift bridge (left) Rio Labruja (above)
One of the very few other pilgrims on the Camino in Portugal	Heather
	Revolta with chapel to Our Lady of the Snows and a good cafe, plus a man with a well-loaded whellbarrow on the road
Distant view of the church in the village of Labruja
A steady climb through the forest
The Cruz dos Franceses commemorating some French soldiers ambushed during the Peninsular wars
Starting the descent from Portela (304 m)
	A strange fountain the middle of the forest
Moinhos de Cabanas - a line of old watermills
	Pensão San Roque on the N-201
The new refugioat San Pedro de Rubiaes opened in May 2006	Well-equipped dormitories
Courtyard with drying facilities and bicycle storage	Common room
The refugio was converted from a redundant primary school

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