La Mancha

On Friday October 7th we took a class trip to La Mancha to see the windmills. La Mancha is a region of Spain and not a town, we went to the towns of Chinchón, Consuegra and Puerto Lápice. All of the towns that we went to were very small. The first town was Chinchón, it was a very pretty old town with a unique town square with very old 2 or 3 story apartment buildings surrounding it. There was also a very beautiful church and a theater in the town that we toured. 

A crest on a building.

All of these are made out of bread, pretty impressive!

The church alter.

A statue of the Virgin Marry and Jesus, that much like the one in Carey, can change gowns depending on the season and occasion.

This is the main curtain in the theatre, the picture is of a view of the town.

Sendy and I

Next we went to Consuegra, where there is a restaurant that the part of the book Don Quijote took place in.  The restaurant was very little but had great food.

Here is a picture of the front of the restaurant. 

We ate pisto Manchego, which is braised veggies kind of like a salsa ( front left), we also ate Migas de pastor which was fried bread crumbs, it reminded me of couscous (center) and Queso Machego which is fried sheep cheese and it was delicious ( back right), we also ate Duelos y quebrantos which is ham, chorizo, and bacon with scrambled eggs. Then the main course was a delicious chicken and desert was a  pastry with ice cream. Lunches in Spain are late and long, you eat a lot of food because it is the most important meal of the day.

In the back you see the big vases, a long time ago they used to store their wine in these vases.

And finally we went to Puerto Lápice which is were the big windmills are. The windmills we saw were not working because they are so old, they are just for show. But a long time ago they used the windmills  to grind grain in.

 

Me in front of one of the many windmills.

Other windmills.

The girls

We went inside and up stairs in this windmill.

It was not such a pretty day but we still had a good time and got some really great pictures of the windmills.