Stories 27
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SpainMay 1615The road home
Disarmed for a year, trampled by pigs, and planning a shepherd's life, I rode back towards La Mancha until I saw my village.
Nature5 min read
- ESSpainMay 1615
The Knight of the White Moon
A gentleman bandit, my first sight of the sea, a great city, and on its beach the hardest morning of my life.
City7 min read
- ESSpainMay 1615
Sancho Panza's account: ten days a governor
My squire governed an island, judged like Solomon, starved like a hermit, and resigned like a gentleman. In his own words.
Culture & history7 min read
- ESSpainMay 1615
The Duke and the Duchess
A great Duke and Duchess received me as a true knight errant. A wooden horse, a scolding chaplain and much laughter followed.
Culture & history6 min read
- ESSpainMay 1615
The enchanted boat
An empty boat on the Ebro, plainly sent by an enchanter. The millers, the river and Sancho saw it otherwise.
Nature3 min read
- ESSpainMay 1615
Master Pedro's puppets
A puppet show, an ape that reads the past, and a rescue I would make again, though it cost forty reales.
Culture & history5 min read
- ESSpainMay 1615
What I saw in the Cave of Montesinos
I went down a hundred fathoms of rope and spent three days among enchanted knights. My companions say it was half an hour.
Nature7 min read
- ESSpainMay 1615
Camacho's wedding
The richest wedding feast in La Mancha, a bridegroom with a sword in his chest, and Sancho's inventory of the pots.
Food & drink3 min read
- ESSpainMay 1615
Four days with the Knight of the Green Coat
Four quiet days in the house of a good man, with a poet for a son and a cook who understood Sancho perfectly.
Food & drink3 min read
- ESSpainMay 1615
The lions
The king's lions were on the road. I asked to have the cage opened. What followed earned me a new name.
Nature4 min read
- ESSpainMay 1615
The Knight of the Mirrors
A stranger in a wood boasted that he had beaten me. At dawn I gave him the chance to prove it, and the enchanters gave him a face.
Culture & history5 min read
- ESSpainMay 1615
A palace in El Toboso
I rode to El Toboso to kiss my lady's hands. I found a church, three donkeys, and the cruellest enchantment of my career.
Culture & history7 min read
- ESSpainMay 1615
Why I rode out a third time
A bachelor from Salamanca brings news: my history has been printed. My niece objects. Sancho asks for wages.
Culture & history6 min read
- ESSpainAug 1614
Home in a cage
Phantoms seized me in my sleep and set me in a cage on an ox-cart. Sancho thinks the phantoms were from our village.
Road trip5 min read
- ESSpainAug 1614
The battle of the wineskins
In the dead of night I fought the giant Pandafilando and took his head. The innkeeper has a different account, and a bill.
Food & drink6 min read
- ESSpainAug 1614
Penance in the Sierra Morena
A ragged lover in the rocks, a penance in my shirt like Amadís, a letter to Dulcinea, and a princess come to beg my help.
Nature7 min read