The Hay is sour and medicinal
Anot her 400m today - we are the same height as Kabul, should you wish to know. We are in Vilaflor - a community built on terraces. It has a suitably romantic and improbable origin story. A Castilian Conqueror saw a young Guanche woman and he said ‘I saw the flower of Chasna!’ In 2014 the municipality changed its name to Vilaflor de Chasna. Should you wish it, this is a cooler part of Tenerife. July averages a mere 22.7oC, August 23. We are in the second most rainy month, an average of 56mm. Between May and September and average of 11mm rain falls - most of it in September and none in June and July. In 1676 Juan Nunez de la Pena wrote ' CHASNA. The town of Chasna is the last settlement on this island, with many farmers and breeders. It grows a lot of wheat and barley, raises a lot of cattle, and has little wine. It has a reasonable parish of St. Peter, with a beneficiary, which has a good income. There is a mayor and a clerk, and th...