Never too old to backpack: More Algarve hiking

By Tracy Burton

After completing the 300km Via Algarviana trail with her partner, outdoor writer Harri Garrod Roberts, the author returns to Algarve six months later to explore more of Portugal's southernmost region. Away from the popular sandy beaches, the couple tackle several Via Algarviana link routes before heading west to join the wild Atlantic coastline on the Rota Vicentina. Frequently hiking through spectacular scenery where the only sounds are birdsong and the hum of bees, they encounter vertiginous footpaths, roaming bulls, ravines and rabbits. The real threat, however, is from the fast-approaching Hurricane Joaquin.The Via Algarviana ('Algarve Way') is a fully waymarked, long-distance trail from the Spanish border in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west. The Rota Vicentina (GR11) is a 450km network of walking trails within the Southwest Alentejo and Vicentine Coast Natural Park

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 198021994X
• ISBN13: 9781980219941
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"