It was a mammoth day of travel today. We left A Coruna at 9.30am and arrived at San Sebastián at 9pm.

We're still blown away with the similarities between here and Australia. There were wattles along with eucalypts today.

We lost count of the tunnels we passed through - the terrain was quite mountainous in places. There were hillside terraces and forests of lichen moss covered oak trees with lots of leaf litter.

We followed a river for miles and miles with mountain on one side and steep valleys on the other. There were several small hydro dams along the way.

On the highest mountains there was still a trace of snow and at one point there was snow alongside the railway track.

The communities along the way were constant and the variety of architecture in each was fascinating. There were orange roofed stucco buildings (that I had envisaged would be all over Spain) then in another town there were rows of two storey 'boxes'. One place had 1/4 acre blocks with very neat single storey houses. Then there were the communities with high rise apartment blocks seemingly in the middle of nowhere. We wondered where the occupants would work???? There were lots of slate roofs - some with a cute fish scale pattern.

There didn't seem to be a great deal of farming activity. Not many animals. A few centre pivot irrigation systems and grain silos in some places.

We stopped at lots of little railway stations all day.

It was pouring with rain when we finally arrived in San Sebastián so we caught a cab to our comfortable hotel then ate in the restaurant downstairs.