Cycling Europe

Waking a little earlier than the day before we left the camping ground just north of Vila Nova de Monfontes and rode towards the town. We past through only to pickup some supplies to have a brekky looking over the wide river with large cliffs.
We headed for Odeceixa, a coastal town tucked in behind some tall ranges. A little slip-up with garmi (Gamin GPS) meant we took an extra four kilometres getting there. Luckily most of the way we had a tail-wind, which we remarked to a couple of American cyclist, to their disliking, heading in the other direction.
At this stage we were hoping to possibly make it all the way to the southern tip of Portugal, Sagres, but we had to rethink our plans just out of Odeceixa. Steep hills followed by steeper hills meant we were slowed down a bit. By the time we got to Aljezur (a quaint little town) we were pretty puffed and decided that Carrapateira would be more a more suitable location to camp for the evening.
 
We found the town just on sunset and stocked up on some food. We found a good spot to camp almost out of a strong wind but it happened to be in the front yard of a vila-cum-apartment building. We knocked on the door of the only house with a light on to find a little old lady, who by the smell of it was making a delicious pasta dish. We asked if we could camp in her front yard and she said yes, but around the back would be more out of the wind (from what we could understand). She showed us a ground level patio that was half under-cover. It was completely out of the wind and also came with a hot outdoor shower!
We set-up camp, had dinner and a couple of beers at the local club and hit the hay. It was only 9:30.