Places I Have Left Behind

Travel can be therapeutic and instructive...if only to point out places you would rather avoid.

In Spain when you enter a town the name appears on a sign in a conventional way. When you leave the same name appears but this time has a red slash through it, as if to say, "Enough of this place" or perhaps "I'm finished with you."

One does wonder about the implications of settling down permanently in Revenga...or perhaps it is better just to keep on walking.

The award for nasty place names visited on this trip is unquestionably, Carrion de Los Condes but at least it is accompanied by a good story. It seems that El CID married of a few of his daughters to counts living in the region and heard reports that they were being mistreated by their new husbands. According to legend he swept in, killed the counts and had their bodies tied to trees, leaving carrion for the condors.