Águeda to Albergaria-a-Nova

We were out later than all the other pilgrims. We had a nice breakfast in the garden and I was so thankful for this little spot! Wished we had gotten in a little earlier as we could have enjoyed dinner with the group but our small family dinners are priceless. 

We have fallen in love with the cat, who is not owned by the auberge, which surprised us. 
I woke during the night to look over in Bronwyns bunk and it was sleeping right at her feet totally sprawled out on its back with its paws in the air!!!

Mind you the signs say don’t let it in, but pilgrims either left the room to smoke, make a phone call, or let air into the room and I guess it snuck in. We of course loved this!

Unlike my other late night escapades with cats on my Caminos, atleast this one pretended to know us in the morning!!!!! Most have a “love em and leave em” attitude but this one at least hung around us till we left.
 
We went a little further than the typical stage in our book today. We arrived at a family run auberge. They greeted us with water and were sweet.

My heel/ankle is at close to 100% as possible. I think Tomar was the changing point for me! Maybe it was the praying in Fátima! The ankle brace, which is like a tight pantyhose sock might be the reason and all that combined with a total overdose of Ibuprofen! I still have typical Camino throbbing foot pain but at least I can walk normal now!

We had another cute animal story that we wanted to share. I popped into a pharmacy to get some bandage tape to find a little dog kind of pacing for us. We tried to give it some attention but then it took off down the road. Two hours later on a quieter road there it was in the middle of street practically laughing at us! We fed it our lunch, meats and cheese though it really wanted little to do with us...