The second day in Galicia we stumbled across another iron age landscape - a beautiful fort set right against the sea.
You definitely need sturdy walking shoes and a coat - it can get pretty cool on the coast and the track isn't marked very well. Park up by the cafe and find the track that leads along a pine forest - it's about a twenty minute walk.
It certainly was picturesque - large circle foundations of stone against cold granite skies. Like all old places, my imagination brings the people alive within such a landscape - the call of fisherman, the woman calling the children in. The smell of cooking fish, the stench of animals.
Castro de Borona was a self sufficient settlement surrounded by two walls and consisting of about 20 roundhouses. People loved there from the 1st Century BC to the 1st Century AD - not too long in the scheme of things.
It was also surrounded by a moat,the first line of defence, and then there was a rampart of two almost parallel stone walls filled with sand and stone. As you walk in to the right there would have been a defence tower where the walls narrowed so a cart couldn't pass through. There are other structures believed to be forges but unless you were in the know it was hard to tell.
In the sea beyond surfers bobbed in tiny waves. Sadly this set the tone for the rest of the trip where I'd only surf once. It hadn't been the best weather for surf this trip at all, that's for sure. All that aside though, it was definitely worth the diversion.
