But, it's very spicy

I’d been in the center of Spain and now found myself staring down the barrel of Los Monegros in Aragón.

Every time I’m here, it’s the same feeling and I’m here often. Where this barren desert sits in the middle of the region is exactly where the officials decided to run the main highways across Spain as well as the highspeed train.

The region isn’t a huge issue if on the train, as you’re flying along at 300kph making it but a 20 minute blip. In the car however is a different matter as it just goes on and on with small, rounded nothing hills followed by small, rounded nothing hills. While Los Monegros is officially just to the east of the city of Zaragoza, I consider everything around this capital city to be Monegrosville and there’s something like 200km of it which even runs a touch into Catalunya.

My apologies to Zaragoza as it’s a fine city, but as Spanish summer starts in the middle of May now, I just want to be through this place as fast as possible which means not stopping in Zaragoza. If you stop there for an hour or two, once you go to leave, you realize that you have another hour of Monegros to churn through.

The problem however is as I am human and also happen to enjoy food, I need to eat. This means I still need to stop somewhere for lunch and the first place outside of the void that is Los Monegros is, Lleida in Catalunya.