Day 8, part 1. 16.5 miles. Hardest day by far. First part was the most beautiful landscape, then 10 miles of what we have dubbed ‘Mordor to Molinaseca’. Hiking down rocky/riverbed type terrain. Our gift at the bottom was beautiful Molinaseca with its river that we soaked our feet in. Then another 6k to Ponferrada. We arrive at our albergue exhausted, and as our hospitalero told us repeatedly…late…lol. Still they fed us a lovely meal and put us to bed.
