Trip 02 / Spain
Galicia, Spain
Once known to Romans as the ‘end of the world’, secluded inns and superior seafood now make Spain’s northwestern corner the beginning of an extraordinary escape.
Wild and windswept, Galicia’s landscapes are steeped in Celtic history, relating a story of Spain that reads rather differently from the more-often told Mediterranean tale. A wander along the footpaths that snake atop 600-metre-high sea cliffs facing the Atlantic, among prickly heather and mossy rocks, offers a literal and figurative breath of fresh air.
Galicia’s coastline is pocked with jagged rías, or estuaries, where sea and land intermingle and change with the tides. Thought to be the end of the world by early Romans, the remote Rías Altas…
