Today was another departure from the Camino de la Lana, in order to visit a couple of interesting sites. This again involve cobbling together some GPS routes from strangers on the internet.

First, to Sad Hill Cemetery, the location where The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was filmed in 1966. Google it to find out more. To get there, we used another track from Wikiloc, rather than follow a boring road. First a steep ascent up a hill with little in the way of an obvious path. Then along a sad hill that had clearly been burned in the last year or two.

Look at the photo below, at the top of the hill, where Laurie is confirming that the hole in the fence is at the right point on her Wikiloc track. She promptly heaved her backpack over the  barbed wire fence, landing 6 feet away, without a further moment’s hesitation, I followed more sedately, simply handing my pack over to her before ducking under the wire. Look into the mist, and you can probably imagine that the contour lines would have been very closely spaced, but that only became apparent a few minutes later.

We could see Sad Hill Cemetery and had confidence that the path would get us down there! Which it did.

Next attraction – the Monesterio de San Pedro de Arlanza. Parts dated to 1000 AD but clearly, remodelling and expansion went on for centuries.

On to Covarrubias, another of the “most beautiful villages in Spain.”