Volta da Iberia: Santiago to Porto

So i dont have much time to upload photos, so i will just have this short message in the slot for the last week or so for now, unfortunately... really there is so much more that i want to type and so many pictures i want to add, but time is short...so basically i went with Rico from Santiago to Oporto, we did on average 100km per day for three days and spent two days in Oporto before training 100km east to the Douro Valley, the oldest wine growing region in the world, and then we biked a measly 25km, stopped for the night in Pinhao, then i went on from there, now over 300km myself, and am now im Branco Castelo. But this does no justice to what all ive seen and experienced in the last week and a half or so...i went over a mountain with my bike, LITERALLY, it was rediculous, i had to take my bags off my bike, carry them about 5 km, then go back and get my bike and do the same, i made only 30km in one day because of this. but i took some amazing photos which i can hopefully upload at some point, it was rediculous...that was in Da Serra Da Estrela mountain region, and tonight i will be camping out in the Tejo national park, right along the spanish portugese border. After this i will have to bike another 150km to get to a train station that will take me to Toledo. i want to spend a couple of days there, then train to Gibralter, then bike to Cadiz, then on the Sevilla, where i will again train to Lisboa, from there i will bike no more than 200km around the city to the three national parks, as well as to Sintra and Setubal. So hopefully at some point i can upload more photos of the last week, and still more to follow. all is well, i need a shower though....maybe in one more week...Chris

UPDATE! yay! so here are some photos i am fond of, i hope everyone likes them as much as i do. These photos follow from Santiago to Porto.

a funny photo of the gas cans inside the hostal