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Where has all the water gone? Oh, it's here.

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  Well.  Wrong turn yesterday if we are to take the cross country route I planned.  Back we go, seeing as the Embalse de Entrepenas is in our way. Lets do dams.  The origin of this expanse of water was 1929, when the plans to damn the RIver Tagus was made. A plan went to the Ministry of Public Works in 1931.  The whole thing was launched in 1936 and sunk by the Civil War. Post War the plan was revived in 1941, and then begun in 1946. In January 1956 and on 14th July 1958 it was ceremonially opened. The reservoir covers 3213 squared hectares, contained by a 87m high dam. It creates 37 mw of power  and was responsible for the closure of some sections of the Tajuna railway. We will stroll passed the during to Duron, pretending we meant to do that, and look in on the Finca de Gaia.  The web link doesn’t work but a month ago Oscar said  ‘ Thanks to my girlfriend, we managed to get a room to see the eclipse (it was nearly impossible). It was two unforge...
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SPECTACULAR. All in key caps twice.

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  We are going down today.  About 300 metres in all, and will end next to a reservoir - but we will leave that until tomorrow. Down, down, down passed the Ermita de San Roque. It is one of those tiny little wayside chapels that you can imagine travelers sheltering in during a storm, a level 1 cleric being given it as their first cure of souls or the place someone had really upset the local bishop was sent to consider their life choices. Budia may be a veritable fleshpot of steamy vice, but we will only get second hand reports of it as we are passing by in it, as the road doesn’t go through it. The honest scribblers best chum, the GSD comes ever to hand. BUDIA: town with town hall in the province of Guadalajara (6 leagues), : situated at the foot of a hill called Cuesta Cabeza, and surrounded by others that protect it from the winds, particularly from the North and East; it enjoys a pleasant temperature and healthy climate , and its most common diseases are tertian fevers: th...
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Above and below a safe cementry

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  You know when it all seemed like a good idea at the time.  Well, we are going on a long, long hike today and as a consequence we are passing three villages, although two of them are kissing cousins. To Yélamos de Abajo first. It made it into the GSD so let us go to 1845. YELAMOS DE ABAJO: village with town hall in the province of Guadalajara Situated in a valley with a healthy climate ; it has 100 houses ; the town hall; jail; primary school attended by 37 students, in charge of a teacher paid 1,110 reales; a spring of good water; a church (Our Lady of the Bramble) the  land is rugged and of inferior quality; it includes a well-populated mountain. Roads : the local ones and the one that leads to Trillo. Mail : received and dispatched in Budia. Products : cereals, oil, wine, legumes, and firewood; sheep are raised for agriculture; small game is plentiful. Industry : one flour mill and one olive oil mill. Population : 104 households, 376 inhabitants.   We wo...
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