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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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A competitive priest and South American delicacies.

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  We are going up the valley and the higher we get, the narrower the field at its foot becomes. We will wiggle alongside the Arroyo de San Andres and end up 108m higher than when we started. We are hedging for Irueste, which is over the stream and up the other side of things away from the road. Let’s go straight to the GSH Dictionary to see how things were in 1845. IRUESTE: village with town hall in the province of Guadalajara (4 leagues), situated at the foot of a slope with exposure to the North, it enjoys good ventilation and a healthy climate , with no known special diseases: it has 60 houses , the town hall, a primary school attended by 20 students, in charge of a teacher endowed with 800 reales; a parish church (La Purísima Concepción), served by a priest whose position is permanent and of royal appointment, after a competition. The land, mostly flat and typical of the Alcarria region, is of good quality; it is watered by a small, unnamed stream. Roads : those leading to...
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