‘We saw it, stopped and bought.

 We are travelling through October 2023 - as far as streetview is concerned - and I reckon around 9-10am judging by the lowness of the sun on the photos.  The later sunrise in Spain is a bit of a surprise when you first encounter it during Autumn half term visits.  Today it is about 8.15am. 



We are on one of those newish roads, which took traffic out of tiny villages and, in this case, along a cut into the valley side.  Occasionally you see the remains of the old road.  Facebook has a British site for this sort of thing.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/296916515692062  






Time for a break.  Restaurante Venta de Tramalon has had a mighty 2000 reviews.  I would be interested to know how that affects the average.  I presume it will tend to move it away from the ‘5’.  Two years of doing this suggests people are nice and tend to 5 star things or, if miffed,, 1 star it.  I suspect 2 stars is the least used.  If you are so upset that your morning coffee turned out to be served by someone who couldn’t care a hoot if you had a nice day you head for ‘1’.  I wrote this, then clicked on Reviews and the ‘most relevant’ review was, off course, two stars.  It is a classic of its type.




William Whitell wrote three months ago.  ‘15e for menu del dia. So much food. Unfortunately, it's likely my partner got food poisoning from here. Her Carne salsa was slightly undercooked when served and was the only thing we didn't share all day. For balance, i was fine and i thought the food was ok’




We go down and up the Conchuga valley and up the other side to Cobreces.    https://www.cobreces.com/  The website is lovely and has some nice photos.  The town goes big on the summer.  They celebrate the festivals of Santa Ana [26 July], San Pendrucu [1 August] and San Roque [16 August[/  They also have a procession’ in the last weekend in August.  The town arrived in documented history in 943, when a monastery was established





We will end the day with what you all have been missing, a cheese shop. 

https://www.monasterioviaceli.com/abadia-de-viaceli-queso-trapa There website says ‘Our cheese was born thanks to the patronage of Don Antonio Bernaldo Quirós who, upon his death in 1908, bequeathed his ancestral home to the Trappist Order, with the desire to found a monastery where an agricultural school would also operate. Together with the Quirós Institute, a dairy farm and cheese factory were set up’  Five years ago Edesa left a single word review ‘Quesoooo’ - it was for five stars.  A month ago Ignacio also gave five stars.  ‘We saw it, stopped and bought.’  





Let u rest and think of cheese.


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