Level Ground, 6. Fate.
Last Friday, we went on our trip to O Courel, in the province of Lugo. Chance led us up to the forgotten village of Pacios da Serra, and its road to Vilarbacú, abandoned now to trucks going from one quarry to another. Almost at the end, we passed right above one of the slate quarries. The road looked like it had been scooped out of the earth recently by the two bulldozers that were resting for the weekend. One was on the inside shoulder of the road itself, the other on another road above that had the same raw look as the one we were on. But we were through easily enough, and even stopped to take a photo of the excavators and the trucks below. At the end, just before the village of Vilarbacú, we stopped at a ruined house with other remains behind it. It turned out to be what was left of an antimony mine in the area. After the middle of the last century, it became much more profitable to quarry slate. I assume the road between Pacios and Vilarbacú was once in another spot, but the exigen...