Two Spanish weeks (summary)
Door: keesiberico
Blijf op de hoogte en volg Kees
26 Mei 2010 | Spanje, Cedrillas
From Girona the biking route to Sevilla started (book: “Unlimited biking to and through Andalucia’). From this day on it was climbing mountains every day, but most of the track in beautiful nature and countryside.
I passed among others Manresa (did not like this town), Montblanc (a very nice little town, the first really warm day). I camped in Vilanova de Prades at 900m and stayed here a day, which I liked very much (time to get a teint(?) on other parts than arms and legs). In Vinebre, at the bank of the river Ebro, I got the most smallest room they had (the hotel was fully booked full that weekend), but it was OK for me.
The day thereafter a large part of the trip went over an old railway track, turned into a good biking path. This was very nice because I passed over several beautiful viaducts, I had to put my light on in tunnels (and still I could hardly see where I was going, so really dark in there) and without notice I climbed a lot in height. All these days I travelled through several wine areas, and as you can imagine I tried some (…?) of them.
After that day I entered into the area called ‘El Maestrazgo’, with the first stop in Morella, a nice medieval town with a hudge castel on top of the mountain where the town was build on. Yesterday and today I biked in the middle of this area. Especially today I enjoyed it, although I had to work hard to come over 4 mountains of 1500m and more; the highest was 1700m above sealevel (probably the top in my journey). This Maestrazgo area is very rough and a bit bare. The mountains are rocky and formed in layers and terrases(?), the tops of the mountains are often rounded and flat. Today sometimes I had to think of the hills from Newbigging to Moffat, because parts had quite a similar look and shape. In the sink of the third mountain of today I had to stop for a herd of sheep crossing the bridge I had to cross too. And here I had so much nice viewing points with great views over the land.
Until now I like this trip very much, I see a lot of towns and nature and what is most important I enjoy it very much. The weather is now warm and stable, so good days ahead.
Hopefully this summary and the pictures of all these days give you a good image of where I am travelling around.
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27 Mei 2010 - 20:58
Ian & Moira:
Well done Kees that was a great summary. We are very jealous of you travelling through all the lovely parts - but of course maybe we would prefer it on our quad bikes!! hope the wine has been good quality for you. Have a lovely birthday too .
Weather here was beautiful at the weekend but now is down to 2C tonight so send a little more warmth over to us. Take care and enjoy the rest of the trip.
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