{"id":1162,"date":"2022-10-07T19:21:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T18:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:24:51","slug":"douro-river-to-friexinho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/douro-river-to-friexinho\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3. Douro River to Friexinho"},"content":{"rendered":"

53.2 miles, 1496 metres climbed, 1017 metre descended, average speed 9.44mph.\u00a0Clear blue skies and temperature 26C<\/p>\n

Left the hotel just after 9:00 and within a couple of miles hit a brutal (for me) short climb of 18%. Legs were not fully awake – I had to walk! The first time on a Peak Tours tour – gutted. Once the legs got going we climbed to the rim of the valley offering spectacular views. The photos don\u2019t really do them justice. The hillsides are covered in terraced vineyards.<\/p>\n

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The view back to our start point on the river.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We had a sweeping descent back down to the river then a brisk section following the river, passing the Regua Dam which Mary and I went through on our Douro River cruise last year. The brew stop came up at 19 miles followed by another flat section until a 7 mile,5% climb to lunch. We lunched on cauliflower soup, mixed grill or breaded sardine, follow by dessert and coffee.<\/p>\n

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The climb up to lunch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Following lunch we headed down again to another two \u00a05 mile climbs with sections of 10% or more, slow progress for me (too much lunch perhaps?) but supported by my room mate Simon, a great help.<\/p>\n

We were back in the hotel by 4:30pm<\/p>\n

Another great day but the hardest so far for me and another hilly day tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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53.2 miles, 1496 metres climbed, 1017 metre descended, average speed 9.44mph.\u00a0Clear blue skies and temperature 26C Left the hotel just after 9:00 and within a couple of miles hit a brutal (for me) short climb of 18%. Legs were not fully awake – I had to walk! The first time on a Peak Tours tour … Continue reading “Day 3. Douro River to Friexinho”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portugal-north-south"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}