{"id":15496,"date":"2016-11-10T07:11:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T07:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=15496"},"modified":"2016-11-10T07:11:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T07:11:57","slug":"valencia-chinchilla-de-mont-aragon-lifeday-25307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=15496","title":{"rendered":"Valencia to Chinchilla de Mont Aragon  Lifeday 25,307"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1-2016-11-08-14.18.52.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15497\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1-2016-11-08-14.18.52-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"1-2016-11-08-14-18-52\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1-2016-11-08-14.18.52-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1-2016-11-08-14.18.52-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1-2016-11-08-14.18.52.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Apologies for the 22 day hiatus due to my very pleasurable weekend with all the family in Skeggie, so enjoyable I booked it for next year too. A first \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nPlus a week of the time was pleasurably spent introducing Sally to the delights of biking around Ibiza \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I started my tour again from Valencia,and its excellent \u00a0Hotel Valencia Center, I liked it so much I stayed a couple of days extra after dropping Sally of at Valencia airport. \u00a0In fact I could easily see me returning for longer \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>It was a very tough day too, with a huge climb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/769725322\">according to Strava<\/a> of 6,423 feet over 67 miles with a wind direct from the West and yes I was heading West \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0It was cold too and I was dressed for the sun not high altitudes :-(. Finally arriving at the delightful Hotel Jalance with it\u2019s very steep driveway \ud83d\ude41 frozen and totally wrecked.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I dressed in every bit of cycling clothes that I had, the wind continued and perhaps I should have stayed, that&#8217;s the problem with booking a hotel the night before \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>The day was pretty murderous climbing up to 3,000 feet and then, due to the strength of the \u00a0wind, having to pedal down the hills in a low gear \ud83d\ude41<br \/>\nThe day finally ended with a climb, as the name suggests, to Chinchilla de MONT Aragon and the freezing cold bedroom at El Volante with it\u2019s very tepid warm water shower (I didn\u2019t bother as I would never have warmed up again \ud83d\ude41 You can<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/770675063\"> view the Strava <\/a>here.<\/p>\n<p>I think I will be sleeping in my clothes but I guess for \u20ac25 what else do you expect. My slowest average speed ever according to Strava of 8mph and not a speck of sun all day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for the 22 day hiatus due to my very pleasurable weekend with all the family in Skeggie, so enjoyable I booked it for next year too. A first \ud83d\ude42 Plus a week of the time was pleasurably spent introducing Sally to the delights of biking around Ibiza \ud83d\ude42 Yesterday I started my tour again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-europe","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}