A bit of history about the route

Okay so I did a bit of digging around, as I knew there had to be a 'name' for this route, and sure enough there is...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_de_la_Plata.. The Via de la Plata. This is great as I now know its quite an established route (I guess it would being 1000 years old) with many an opportunity along the way...