Travel on a Shock Absorber
Yesterday was one of my days to give in to wanderlust. However, the days being so short I couldn't go as far as I would have liked (the moon). So I kept within the confines of Galicia, and tried to reach a place where snow had fallen. Goats herding themselves. The first snowfall of winter has been extremely late this year. Though it has fallen, as always, in the mountains. The high mountains. Which meant far from where I live on the coast. So I headed for the mountains with the best access, in the province of Ourense. I got off the highway at Allariz and headed for the far mountains covered in snow. As I neared the mountains along a secondary road, I reached Sandiás and the Lagoa de Antela. To my left, rising on a small hill, I saw one of the guard towers standing like a lonely sentinel over the present potato fields and highway glinting with cars. So I took a left at hazard, since there were no markers leading to the place. Nothing new in Galicia. The Lagoa de Antela was v...