If you take the road less travelled, you will get lost, but hopefully find self. We were roughly 5 km's outside of Fatima when we lost the way maker. The way maker on this route is more or less 10x10 cm in size, stuck somewhere on a pole or tree. It is an unknown pilgrim route.
We were passing a small holding with the owner, Laubertus, feeding his sheep and horses. He started a conversation with us, just to be told by him that Nazaré is in the opposite direction. He then gave us a ride on the back of his pickup to the nearest town. From there we followed Google maps to Batalha. The route map to Nazaré I chucked.
Thought to self: In life, travel with a plan or travel in a general direction and let life surprise you?
One of the things that struck us so far on our pilgrimage is the amount of litter along the way. The cities and towns are clean, but the amount of rubbish along the roads is terrible. Are these signs of a society which is unraveling at the edges?
Batalha is a small town situated around a monastery completed in 1434.
Tomorrow we will continue to Nazaré - Deo Volente.
We were passing a small holding with the owner, Laubertus, feeding his sheep and horses. He started a conversation with us, just to be told by him that Nazaré is in the opposite direction. He then gave us a ride on the back of his pickup to the nearest town. From there we followed Google maps to Batalha. The route map to Nazaré I chucked.
Thought to self: In life, travel with a plan or travel in a general direction and let life surprise you?
One of the things that struck us so far on our pilgrimage is the amount of litter along the way. The cities and towns are clean, but the amount of rubbish along the roads is terrible. Are these signs of a society which is unraveling at the edges?
Batalha is a small town situated around a monastery completed in 1434.
Tomorrow we will continue to Nazaré - Deo Volente.
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