{"id":21396,"date":"2016-11-14T21:31:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T21:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=15524"},"modified":"2016-11-14T21:31:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T21:31:28","slug":"carboneras-to-aquadulce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=21396","title":{"rendered":"Carboneras to Aquadulce – Lifeday 25,312"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"First<\/a>
First picture of me on the trip – thanks Cyclist Mag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first 17 miles or so were pretty tortuous for me with seemingly a never ending climb to 900 feet made worse because I had forgotten to fill up my water bottles \ud83d\ude41 Excellent scenery though, once you leave the cement works & power station behind in Carboneras, and quiet roads<\/p>\n

\"Pete<\/a>
Pete the Editor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just after Fernan Perez I heard a group of cyclists behind me (first time on this trip) and unbelievably they were speaking English \ud83d\ude42 It turned out it was a group from the Cyclists magazine<\/a> in London out on a jolly <\/a>with a local cyclists club. I had a very interesting chat with Pete Muir their Editor, they then all shot of on their uber lightweight bikes. I continued on up the hill that had a 10% sign on it, although t felt way steeper. Imagine my surprise as I started down the other side to find the group having a group shot at the Mirador Las Amatistas, they cooly invited me into the shot, so who knows I might make a guest appearance in Cyclists Mag \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The day wore on a bit after that excitement but eventually a Repsol petrol station hoved into view so I could get a drink and fill the water \u00a0bottle up, then it was on to Almeria where I stuck to the lovely cyclepath along the sea front so didn’t see the city at all. It was a bit of a shock to get on the exceptionally busy road out of town, compounded by the right lane I was in peeling of to a motorway thus making me cross it to get on the coast road, \u00a0times like that make me realise why I like biking on my own!<\/p>\n

The coast road has loads of tunnels \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0but no steep gradients so pretty good except for the traffic. I eventually found the Hotel Mirablau and its very miserable guy who refused to believe I had a booking, even after showing him the email from booking.com. Eventually I phoned booking.com where upon he miracolously found his printed email.<\/p>\n

I didnt have much success with food in the evening either, with my first attempt turning into \u00a0nouveau cuisine – tasty but very small dishes. My second attempt was worse as I failed to pick up on the Spanish word \u00a0lomo – another word for bacon (loin) so the menu now has bacon, jamon and beicon, work that out.<\/p>\n

Strava made it a 58.8 mile day <\/a>with 2,895 feet of ascent all done at 11.2mph \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

The pictures on dropbox are here<\/a><\/p>\n

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The first 17 miles or so were pretty tortuous for me with seemingly a never ending climb to 900 feet made worse because I had forgotten to fill up my water bottles \ud83d\ude41 Excellent scenery though, once you leave the cement works & power station behind in Carboneras, and quiet roads Just after Fernan Perez […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21396","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\/21396","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=21396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}