Friday 20th November 2009 - Beliche to Tavira 25km

When you wild camp it’s a good idea to be up early and away from your site. Today was no exception. We dressed and breakfasted on the last of our porridge that we had brought from the UK, decamped and set off along the lovely, quite country roads through the hills for the last part of our journey to South Portugal.



It was a quite crisp morning, but before long the sun was up and our spirits lifted. We enjoyed the ride and managed to navigate our way through the back roads, travelling more or less parallel to the motorway from Vila Real west along the Algarve coast.


With a little help from a dutch guy on a bike who corrected us at one point, we eventually came down towards Tavira, along a pleasant flat road taking us all the way into town.


After exactly 12 weeks and 3500km we had cycled from Inverness to Tavira. We were ready for a rest and Tavira was the place we had chosen to stay for a couple of months.


All we had to do was find somewhere to live!