As beautiful as it is dirty and neglected
La Mancha - land of sweeping plains and knight errants attacking infrastructure. In the case of this area - a land of areas of natural beauty; holiday places and big emptiness. We are passing through Peralvillo. The 19th century description is ‘a cluster of farmhouses.’ It’s not grown much. Apparently it is name checked in Don Quixote Chapter 11 Part 2. It has a picnic ground which Santi described it as ‘ As beautiful as it is dirty and neglected ‘ Many people were grumbling. Vicky liked it ‘ It's a very nice place in a small village between Fernán Caballero and Ciudad Real! The food is quite good. On Saturdays they have migas and gachas, and on Sundays paella! ‘ By an appalling oversight we are following the N-401 and not the N-401a split into Fernan Caballero. We will be missing a town created during the Castilian push south in the 14th century. The town saw a huge rise in population after 1842. Admittedly, in 1837 bits of it were bur...