The Best Fried Eggs

 Pottering on through 2012 we are suddenly comforted by regular order amid the rural backwaterness of it all.  The Canal de Calanda is straight, concreted and purposeful.  I think it comes from the Calanda Reservoir, a 1982 project designed to bring water and hydro power to the masses.  https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embalse_de_Calanda  The canal was built in 2008 as part of an irrigation project.




Things generally get a bit more organised as we approach the N-211.  Apart from farm buildings we are hitting and industrial zone.  We will be close to the Talleres Zapater, artesanos del metal.  https://tallereszapater.com/  The two reviewers give themm 5 stars.  Next door is a Ferreteria and who amongst who does not have the least spark of decency can resist an ironmongers,  https://homebricocalanda.com/es  38 people give it 4,7 stars.  The reviewers seem to be taciturn men however six months ago Jaume said ‘Very good treatment. Wide assortment’




Time for Coffee.  The Bar Restaurante El punto   It gets 4.4 stars.  Four days ago Kimberley wrote ‘I loved this place, highly  recommended, good food and I hope for a good price, the girl was super friendly’  Mostly people leaves stars not Juame reckoned they did the best fried eggs in Bajo Aragon.



We are heading towards Calanda.  Just to confuse us it has only been Calanda once Alfonso I captured the place in 1119.  In the later Visigoth period it was called Calendar, before that Colenda.  Tomorrow we shall enter this town of about 3700 people.












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