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30-Apr-2023 -- This is the 2^nd out of 9 reports reaching or attempting confluence points during a one-week bicycle trip in Northern Spain from Santiago de Compostela to Barcelona. The story starts from 43°N 8°W.

I spent the night in the beautiful town of Navia de Suarna with a famous medieval bridge, which is only 5 km south of the confluence point.

The next morning, I had to climb 250 m upwards to reach this confluence. At the bottom of the hill, I hid my paniers in a hedge, in order to have an easier ascend. On the way back I would pick my luggage up again.

In 2008, I had visited this confluence already by car. Normally I don’t do revisits, but this point lay too conveniently on my route so I could not refrain to have a look.

And yes! It is still there, 30 m from a tiny road in a mixed forest with thorny blackberry groundcover.

CP Visit Details:

• Distance to a road: 30 m
• Distance to a track: 30 m
• Distance of bicycle parking: 30 m
• Time to reach the CP from the road: 5 min (steep with thorny thickets)
• Time at the CP: 8:20 AM
• Measured height: 518 m
• Minimal distance according to GPS: 1 m
• Position accuracy: 4 m
• Topography: mountainous, on a steep grade
• Vegetation: Chestnuts, blackberries, moss.
• Weather: foggy, 16° C (felt temperature)
• Given Name: The Revisited Chestnut Confluence

The story continues at 43°N 6°W.