It's a road detour

 It is a day of enjoying the way through the hills and finding places of the occasional flat lands.

First to the Area descanso La Mata de los Olmos.  It is one of those ‘we have changed the road so we will make a layby from the old bit’ sort of a place.  It has two, 1 star reviews.   Pep said ‘It's a road detour they are no service.’ which is what it is and so one star seems a bit judgy.  Ivan agreed ‘There are no tables or anything, it's a dead end road’



Next is the huge structure which is El Cierzo Alimentacion.  Google has no website on the review.  Angel gave it a wordless five stars.  I have researched.  https://www.elcierzodeteruel.com/en/   The website says


‘El Cierzo was founded in 2015 in La Mata de los Olmos (Teruel) from the merger between NOEL Alimentaria and Naturuel (owned by Grupo Tervalis and Cereales Teruel), two leaders in the food sector that share the same values and focus their efforts on offering the best products with a firm commitment to quality, food safety and innovation.


Located in Teruel, we use meat from Duroc breed Pigs fed with cereals from our own fields and reared according to the highest animal welfare standards. All this allows us to have a high quality raw material to offer excellent products.

Should you be of a omnivorous turn offend here mind here is their products https://www.elcierzodeteruel.com/en/products/


Let us cross the road we come to the Hotel Venta La Pintada I tried to find out how much it would cost to stay tonight but its website is under construction.  A month ago Segio wrote ‘Spectacular and the silence is noticeable even if you are on a motorcycle.’  Two months ago Cristina wrote ‘Great lunch, fast service and clean bathrooms. Without a doubt we will repeat when we pass on the way to our Rincón de Ademuz (Los Santos).’


Onwards we go.




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