Picas Urriellu

Hiking

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September 29th 2017
The last couple of days (Thursday and Friday) we have been hiking in the mountains around Sotres. We hiked a circular hike around the Pica de Andara. This should have been about 7 mile hike but we could not follow the directions and ended up walking about 10 miles. It wasn't a very interesting hike mostly along roadways. There was a couple of interesting sections where we walked over a saddle betw ... read more

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more