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?