jaunt up a Hill near Meiras, Valdovino

Near Meiras a few km SW of Valdovino is the big hill that we have been looking at for 18 months but never managed to get up until today, we tried once but ended up on the next one along. The temperature rose to 17 C in early afternoon and with blue skies and no wind we had to get out of the house for a few hours.
The track gets a bit jiggly in places and goes on and on up and up...

... but the view is worth it; that is Valdovino in the distance
Then there are the tunnels woooooo wooooo dark and gloomy but once you get in these ones are clean, dry and quite pleasant, even fairly warm if a bit rubbly in places.
in the tunnels are rooms with no view...
...and rooms with a view
and some seemingly with nautical overtones although I think it might be a blast barrier.
Then fairly suddenly it was time for the sun to set over the hills near Covas then...
...we all went home after a nice few hours distraction on a busy day and with thoughts of a future kayak trip from Valdovino to Covas to keep us company. Its one of those fiddly bits of coast Slartibartfast must have a had a hand in the design, its ideal for kayaking on the right day; a total nightmare on the wrong day....roll on Primavera and a touch of scorchio and tranquilo.