Day 48: Santa Mariña to Cee

Mileage: 20.75 miles
Elevation gain: 2,176 feet
Elevation loss: 3,249 feet!!
Weather: Warm and sunny but with the best cool breeze shoving us along
Total mileage: 587.5 miles
2025 mileage: 184 miles

It was a long one! The frequency of places to stop along the way has diminished considerably since Santiago, which can make for awkward planning. Also, I was keen to get to a place where we can see the water. The good news is (besides the fact that we made it!) that only leaves nine miles to Finisterre. Making this day more difficult was the amount of downhill, some of it quite steep. Hard on the knees!

It was also a beautiful day. Still so much corn! Angela figured out that the area we’ve been in is called Mazaricos, which means “rich in corn,” and this is no exaggeration. I was surprised at the fact that there are still so many forests; I had imagined that this coast end would be more rocky and less green.

The first sights of the sea (a bay called Ría de Camariñas) lifted my spirits so much for those last couple of steep descending miles! My knees weren’t quite so enthralled but we all made it.

The booking.com app did us dirty and didn’t give us the precise location for our hotel but we found it eventually. Very happy to get the feet up at the end of this day!Read more