Camino Day 1, Tui to O Porrino, 18.4 kms

Our first day of the Camino was the walk from Tui to O Porrino, 16km as the crow flies, or apparently 18.4km as the pilgrim walks.

You can see Tui and O Porrino at the bottom of the map.  Our next days walks are to Rendondela, Pontevedra, Caldais de Reis, Padron, and then on the last and longest day (24km) Santiago de Compostela.

Today's walk was very interesting, past some old Roman bridges and through a bunch of small towns that you would never see except on this kind of walk.

The weather was overcast with a light drizzle as we left Tui, although it cleared up during the day.  Tomorrow is supposed to rain :-(

Markers count down the km's to Santiago, this is at about T minus 112km or so.

Entering O Porrino.  During the walk we noticed a lot of houses and fences were made of granite.  Turns out the main industry of O Porrino is ...  granite!

A beer at the end of a long day's walk!  We did the first 16 or so km straight through - about 3 1/2 hours of straight walking - before we stopped for the beer.  No more!  We're planning more rest stops from now on.