In Stephen’s recent post the top­ic of Ze Frank’s Earth Sand­wich has come up again. So exact­ly what lies on the oppo­site side of the Earth from our city?

Well, accord­ing to Google Earth (and Ze Frank), it’s the fair town of Alae­jos, in Spain.

Alae­jos seems like a fair­ly unre­mark­able, although cer­tain­ly pic­turesque, town beside the motor­way between Val­ladol­id and Sala­man­ca. (Yes, Sala­man­ca. Many parts of Welling­ton bear the place names fea­tured in the Iron Duke’s penin­su­lar cam­paigns. In the 1860s, the Napoleon­ic wars were clos­er to the set­tlers of Welling­ton than WWII is to us today, hence the nam­ing schemes: Talav­era, Welles­ley, Water­loo, Sala­man­ca etc etc.)

So, does any­one have pho­tos, or any oth­er reportage of Alae­jos? There’s some on Flickr, but we real­ly want to know: what’s Welling­ton’s oth­er, and unof­fi­cial, sis­ter city real­ly like?