I had a pre-arranged meeting with a friend at Malaga that night so we used the Autovia (Dual Carriageway) to Los Giles when it just got too boring and we turned off onto the N370.
WOW
What a fantastic road, this took us through the area where Hollywood chose to film some of the 1970's spagetti westerns. The road was quiet, bending, straightening, bending superb. Then, as a bonus we came across the Circuit de Almeria
http://www.circuitodealmeria.com/
It was bonus, there was racing, we pulled off the road to a small grass area where we were jumped on for car parking/viewing. Wait for it 1 Euro!!!
For that we has a view of the long straight upto what seemed to be spill corner.
After an hour or so we continued towards Almeria. As I said before, this was the home of Spagetti Westerns, whilst sat taking this
This guy appeared from nowhere. Like something out of Mr Benn appearing from the Green Door.
A proper genuine cowboy who greeted us with a wave and V and rode off into the hills
Bizarre!
Arriving at Almeria we picked up the AL-410 and then again the N340 through Adra, Motril, Torrox, Torre de Mar and eventually Malaga. If you get the chance ride this rode. At points you are at Sea level, others your several hundred feet up but always on the waters edge.
That night we met up with my friend and spent the night camping at El Chorro.
The area has huge resoviours which attrack the locals for all sorts of water sports (watch it!
).
It turned out that the night we were there, El Chorro were celebrating a Festival, blimey, what a night!!! Left there at 3.30am having spent about 10 Euros and being drunk. The locals were VERY friendly and by the end we seemed to be the guests of honour
A view from El Chorro
From here we went Montilla where we watched some large amounts of money being exchanged by some shady characters and moved onto Cordoba.
In a word disappointing!
Cordoba to Avila via the N502 where we saw this chap and some huge storks nesting in an electricity mast.
Up the EX322, passing yet more enormous resovouirs and onto the N-502 to Talavera de la Reina, another cracking piece of road. Eventually arriving at Avila. This is a historical university town, with a walled castle in the centre, very pretty and well worth a visit.
Breakfast
and then circled by Blad Eagles (30+) native to Northern Spain.
An uneventful ride to Bilbao before getting on the boat on the 6th June
Did manage a glimps at some dolphin
and a couple of Fin Whales before arriving in Portsmouth on Thursday afternoon. Oh, and shared the ferry with around 100 Hells Angels, the proper thing, with all the attitude to go with it.
and boarding our ferry back to the Isle of Wight
2716 miles
Piers
nice pics
