Eat your heart out Gay Street you're easy peasy now after the Pyrenees crossing. (If your looking for some cheap tat the are 2 excellent towns one in France - Le Perthus and one in Spain - La Junquera (well named) immediately either side of the border, (must be to do with fake copies or tax free.)
Prostitutes; well more of that later.
A good day, if not a little challenging, understatement of the trip. We approached the Pyrenee crossing with a little fear and trepidation, kept our heads and gears down and ploughed on and on and on and eventually came to the border and the top. What a relief, see photo. Was it difficult? If you're a honed cycling machine and are in the peak of fitness! No.
We then continued through frontier towns to Girona. After endless suburbs, what a delight. Found a great 14c hotel in this medieval fortified city. See photo of Ian having a beer.
Good news the beer's half the price of France and we have now doubled our Spanish language skills to include asking for coffee with no milk. Thanks Jamie.
Back to the prostitutes, they caused us quite a problem. There is a prostitute in virtually every pull off/track of the road from the border. As we had just cycled over the Pyrenees we were dehydrated/thirsty, however, we couldn't stop with it being assumed we were looking for extra services. As I had not seen a shoe shop it was totally out of the question. You don't want to get ripped off do you.
Tomorrow we may be in Barcelona, this depends on the terrain, weather, gradients, wind direction, road surface and our stamina, which after today is low.
Watch out we may be close to the end. We may have to be as one of Ian's pedal's fell off today.
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3 comments:
I hear there is rejoicing in Spain! Spain beat Russia 4 - 1 in Euro 2008 AND Ian and Geoff cycled over the border! Just wondering how long it would take to cycle from Barcelona to Gibraltar............
Enjoy Barcelona - wonderful place would love to spend more time there. Can see you chilling out there with a few well earned cold ones. Mike
Well done; congratulations on cycling to Spain. Just the most crazy thing I've ever heard of and an amazing achievement!!!
Re: Ian's (decidely high mileage)pedal: I'm sure they have pedals in Spain or we could DHL one out to you.
Re Mike's comment on Gibralter; why stop there? How cool would it be for you two lycra clad Bath chaps to cycle through the Kasbah looking for a decent beer - now there's a challenge...
Love & kisses Pen x
Message from John, I've been told I mustn't edit it!!
" news from 11 gay street - Geoff, saw your wife in a neighbours garden today in the sun quaffing ros`e under a magnolia tree & speaking french with a dentist - in the circumstances monsieur mon avis pour vous is dump the 1/2 bike in a poubelle & fly home pronto - they were both quite fluent - anon "
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