{"id":15572,"date":"2016-11-18T22:20:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T22:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=15572"},"modified":"2016-11-18T22:20:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T22:20:09","slug":"sabinillas-gibraltar-tarifa-lifeday-25316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=15572","title":{"rendered":"Sabinillas &#8211; Gibraltar &#8211; Tarifa. Lifeday 25,316"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15575\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15575\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1-2016-11-18-10.42.47-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15575\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1-2016-11-18-10.42.47-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Rock\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A very full on day. Starting with five miles on the dreaded A-7, less busy today so not to bad. I turned of\u00a0and explored the once huge gated community of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sotogrande\">Sotogrande <\/a>very posh indeed \ud83d\ude42 Then with relief along the old road alongside the A-7 until I reached the A383 and then a climb to over 600 feet before swooping down into Concepcion and Gibraltar whose passport control was totally perfunctory.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15576\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1-2016-11-18-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15576\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1-2016-11-18-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The apes and where they were looking.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The apes and where they were looking.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gibraltar was incredibly busy, especially with my pet hates of scooters &amp; taxis everywhere plus\u00a0lots of tourists, not my sort of place at all, although interesting to see how England used to be but in the sun. I decided to take the cable car to the top, leaving my bike with the Fire Station below \ud83d\ude42 Took loads of pics of the so called wild apes for Sally and the view. \u00a0Before quickly descending and escaping the turmoil.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15573\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1-2016-11-18-17.58.11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15573\" src=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1-2016-11-18-17.58.11-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset at the southern tip of mainland Europe\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset at the southern tip of mainland Europe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then it was of to Tarifa climbing to well over 1,000 feet before dropping back to sea level in Tarifa and the finish of the European bit of my bike ride. This\u00a0has taken 31 days of riding (excluding Ibiza) \u00a0to do 1,907 miles \u00a0and with 77,679 feet of ascent \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0I left home 68 days ago but have been flitting to and fro quite a bit plus spending two weeks in Ibiza so all very leisurely.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow its the ferry across the straits and a night in Tangier, Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>The Strava&#8217;s for today are:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/778728995\">To Gibraltar<\/a>\u00a0 24.7 miles 1,234 feet of ascent<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/778923742\">To Tarifa<\/a>\u00a031.6 miles 1,843 feet of ascent<\/p>\n<p>The pics are on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sc\/ej5usjgyllbjxpc\/AAAOHKrcf2kUY8ROqzobEaAZa\">Dropbox here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very full on day. Starting with five miles on the dreaded A-7, less busy today so not to bad. I turned of\u00a0and explored the once huge gated community of Sotogrande very posh indeed \ud83d\ude42 Then with relief along the old road alongside the A-7 until I reached the A383 and then a climb to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biking","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15572","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=15572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}