The End of the Road

     Our last night on the road was spent enjoying Super Bock and talking with Rolf. Leaving the campground near Vila de Conde we headed towards Porto stopping at a Pastelleria for breakfast. Heading down the N13 the road became more and more congested and the rain began. Even though there were, for the most part, good shoulders on the road we chose to get away from the trucks, heavy traffic and on ramps and took to the streets.

It was a good choice as it placed us, lost, in front of a beautiful azulejo covered church but more importantly in front of a small fruit and vegetable market. After posing our bicycles in our quest for an Adventure Cycling photo of the week we headed over to the market where the vendor provided us with much needed directions.

Church with azulejo tiles

With our continuing good luck we were only one street off of the one that would take us directly back "home" to Residencial Grande Rio. The rain was coming down we set to the task of dismantling our bicycles and Tony from the Residencial arranged a place of us in a large storage room in the back that was warm and dry with heaps of room to accomplish our task and helped us arrange our airport transportation (even cheaper that our incoming transport!)

Our private bicycle entrance at the Residencial Grande Rio

      In the wee hours of the early morning, Arthur, the owner of this fabulous bicycle friendly establishment bid us goodbye, offering to put together a breakfast to go and we loaded up and headed off to the airport.
     Now traveling to an airport isn't really that exciting but the way into the Porto airport in the dark was awesome. As you traveled along the road would light up and guide you in. Eventually where the road split to arrivals and departures it lit up in different colors to direct you to the right area.

    In true traveling fashion we finished our trip being lost in the airport, pushing our bicycle filled trolleys back and forth from one end to another until we found the correct counter and then sat down for a last indulgence and final goodbye to the Pastellerias of Portugal.