Camping Paredes da Vitoria –
Peniche
72.5km, 5hrs 24mins, 999m total
climb
Left the campsite
and we were both looking forward to today's destination. Peniche is
one of Europe's most well known surfing spots and the “Supertubo”
wave which Peniche is most famous for is on the list of the top 10
waves to surf in the world. We had planned to stop in Peniche for a
couple of days and Greg was looking forward to giving surfing a bash.
After a quick
breakfast at the bench next to the ladies toilets, the only one in
the proximity of our tent, we left Paredess Velhas and headed
slightly inland for the Portuguese countryside. He campsite was very
cheap as it was only for locals it seems. No other tourists were
there. It was less than 7 Euros (no WiFi or swimming pool though).
The cycle was nothing spectacular, we passed through small
traditional villages, starting seeing olive trees and struggled up
some steep climbs out of the towns, cobbles most of the way.
The days are also
starting to get warmer. The sun was still behind clouds and the wind
was blowing steadily but it was pleasant and warm. We detoured a bit
inland today, so it wasnt completely flat, but we did get a better
average speed, and also avoided more shocking roads.
As we reached
Peniche the wind was really strong. Gusty and forceful we ground out
the last few km's straight into it as it howled off the Altantic. Our
campsite was on the other end of town, on a kind of semi-island high
up on cliffs. We cycled past a big very smelly fish factory which
wasn't so welcoming. Alot of fishing and fish-processing goes on
here, huge harbour for large ships. Heading out the other side of
town there were lots of people fishing and we also spotted some keen
surfers on a big reef break at the bottom of the cliffs. Very
exciting! Also there was a huge Intermarche 500m from the camp-site
so that sorted our food worries out. We looked forward to exploring
this place.
The campsite,
Praia da Peniche, was nice with free WiFi, an indoor pool (which we
didn’t use). Also it was very cheap. They had some nice pitches
with four-poster shaded roofs so we took one. Also did the usual
trick of borrowing an old table and chair set from the camp-site for
outside the tent which makes a massive difference to overall comfort.
The only issue was the wind. It was already very strong, hopefully it
wouldn't get worse.
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| Leaving the very Portuguese campsite |
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| Arriving at Praia do Peniche |
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