Sunday, June 15, 2008

[Trip log] Day 11: Castuera - Cordoba













Hi there!


So we are finally in Cordoba! what a hard day! we had to cover 160Klm of ups and downs and the weather is not doing us any favours. Left Castuera early ( thats the norm now so we can avoid the heat) but had to cope with 30Klm of uphill before we got into a valley. then the heat got so much we had to stop at the nearest town. In this trip i have been complaining about the lack of people in the small villages, they always seem empty. Let me tell you this village was the loudest busiest village in the entire universre! all i wanted to do was rest for a couple of hours before we head on but it was impossible. So ended up at the front garden of the fire brigade! underneath a tree until 4pm. The next part of the trip was also hard. at some point we got overheated again and stopped at a gas station to get a cold drink and they looked at us like we were aliens! maybe they dont see a lot of cyclists in these parts of spain. Then there was this really big hill, that as we were approaching it, it looked like its was a 50% slope! thank got it was just an optical illusion, but had a small stroke for a moment. Finally arrived at Cordoba at 9pm and headed to our hotel, only to find out that we had put the wrond address on the GPS!!! finally arrived at the hotel and after a quick dinner went straight to bed.

Raniska

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