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Day 15:Corcubión to Fisterra (End of the World)

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 We started at 8.47 it was a bright crisp morning.  We had to hike back into town and climb up out the back to cross over the headland to Fisterra. We finished at 13.32. With Transfers  I haven’t had time to update. I will do it later

Day 14:Olvieroa to Corcubión

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 We departed at 8.22 in the dark. Looks like we are ready to do down the mine instead of a hike😀 Today we were heading to Corcubión on the coast. We traversed the mountain top on a mixture of roads and wide gravel paths and met several pilgrims. We were not in much of a hurry and by 11 we had stopped twice, so Bob now had three coffees! He was buzzing.  Coffee 2  Coffee 3 with cake The scenery was fabulous. Wind turbines and deep valleys one with a with dam and a fast flowing white water river. The Landscape was a mixture of pasture for livestock, corn and forestry, mainly eucalyptus trees but some native as well. There were only tiny hamlets up on the mountain top.  Some of the livestock were in fighting form! (See video) 19.98Km to Fisterra Fisterra or Muxía, we chose the end of the world. A mythical ware wolf Less than 20km to go to Fisterra  After a very quick decent we arrived back at the coast and at the other side of the bay from our accommodation. It wa...