Trashumantes – Back on the drovers road

It was long due.  At last I had the chance to join the ‘trashumantes’ on their northbound journey, returning to the summer pastures of Teruel. However, the experience of the drovers road this time couldn’t have been more different from my previous southbound migration with them a few years ago. Temperatures of 40C, broken terrain, [...]

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