The Road from Santiago

We are heading to Loja. We will edge around La Esperanza and as there is a Cafe Bar La Esperanza so let us go there first.  This one of those ones where the place gets 3.8 stars, from only fifty reviews. The mode average is 5, notably five. Four comes next, then three.  The four [8%] of one stars are very old.  Seven years ago Franqc reckons the place was dirty.  Five years ago jose complained of the covid risk of a lack of masks.  Two of the three two stars were six years ago.  Let's look at the recent ones. Nothing is more recent than a year. The most recent with comments was two years ago.  El empotrador Justiciero said ‘Good place to eat perfectly cooked roast meat, roast ham too, and especially the skewers were delicious grilled. I will go back.’ We will cross the river and enter Loja, about 21,000 people in the municipality.  Traces of everyone once lived here, even the Romans, although it wasn’t until 1991 that this was proved. It was the M...

  We are zig-zagging amid towns.  First to Venta Nueva. Nueva is the right word. It began in the 19th century when the road from Granada to Malaga was built.  885 people live here today - up on the 591 of 2003.  Wiki - which is available in Spanish and Cebuano, because someone thought people in Central Visayas in the Philippines needed to know this, said: ‘ Originally, economic activity was linked to the passage of the N-342 national highway , but currently, given its proximity to the town of Huétor Tájar, its economic activity is assimilated to that of the municipal capital, leaving the hamlet very integrated into the main town.’ Up the road to Huétor Tájar, well, the edge of it.  https://huetortajar.org/   It has almost 11000 people here.  We are in the land of asparagus.  So much so that the stuff is protected by a designation of origin but it was not always thus. People have lived here since people were invented but in 1483 the growth of the h...

  We begin a long a road that Streetview went along in May 2013.  Looking to the left we note the base of a new road.  Let us switch to that position and discover the A-402, before switching back and off to the left, where streetview will leave us. Moraleda de Zafayona is ahead of us and by George it was a splendid name.  About 1750 people live here, some in those ‘not made for cars’ back streets.  Apparently the town means ‘place rich in mulberry trees.’ Some people disagree and think it's to do with springs.  Currently the PSOE have five councillors. The United Left were second, and also have five councillors.   14% voted PP and are represented by a single person.  The current mayor is PSOE Virginia Pantigas Ruiz. We are going to pass Bar Kuwait, so lets look in.  I’ll put the menu in.  The top five words in reviews are ‘tapas’, ‘prices’, ‘pizza’, ‘roasted chicken’ and ‘meal.’  A week ago Karla said ‘ Excellent atmosphere’ We are ...