It’s Friday the 12th of October and it’s 10: to 8 in the morning and Sun’s just coming up last night I slept in here in this bus stop it was just the right size for me actually uh there my bike there uh the the bench was exactly my length and I
Set up well I haven’t got it now but on the on the back wheel I just set up like a trip wire kind of thing with um a lock and my bottles around it so if anyone did try and move my bike it would have made enough noise for me to wake up
Anyway I was all right I I managed to get 6 hours sleep and I feel all right yeah um and I’m going to plan to try and get to quesa today well I don’t know how to pronounce it in Spanish but that’s the plan early morning cycling’s Pleasant got the sunrise and uh
Um yeah getting out into the sticks now and it’ll be mainly sticks all the way back home with a few big towns in another warthog just in that ditch um he was limping scared the crap out of me I thought it was going to charge and then I saw it could barely
Walk maybe it’s been hit I don’t really fancy going back and filming it to be fair found some almonds my might as well uh get a few whilst I’m here just had a coffee um I asked for it to be FTE which is strong do um so I can get pumped up
And then off for a big Cycle two little snails chilling in the Sun get myself some uh Jaffer cakes there hold up this place is ridiculously gorgeous it’s one of the nicest places I’ve seen in the whole of Spain and I’m just just going to sit here for a while and eat
Some Jaffer cakes and just chill out my Bonito myy Bonito that was off the charts how beautiful that was probably one of my favorite places in the whole of espia easily Lads of Arman trees here this is the um border um of Aragon and catalunia and um
There’s a lot of you know catalonian bunting up there it’s brilliant around here just so quiet wide open roads nice and sunny this is the best well this isn’t the best part of Spain but this kind of cycling it’s my favorite kind of cycling to do good scenery and
Uh just nothing about for miles starting to feel very sleepy uh my Pace has slowed right down just chugging away this is definitely the uh most red of in the red of being on the whole trip totally totally bonked out um but what a place it’s just agriculture land for miles and nothing
Around Sun’s nice and warm yeah it’s a good place to lose all your energy on the End Road uh parallel to the motorway one of those really quiet roads it’s Saturday the 13th of October and it’s just gone half 7 in the morning I’m in hotel Clemente in baraso or I
Don’t know how to pronounce it anyway I’ve done some sums and um I’ve got 546 km to do in 2 days which is 273 km a day which is about 170 m so quite a lot um it’s going to be harder cuz it’s through mountains so it
Was the only um Ferry I could really get to Bill b um the other ones were going to Plymouth and or it’ be next week and it it was just a fat so I thought well I’m just going to try it um just Southwest of weska wesa and
Um I’m just going to I’m going to try it give it a go these roads from going towards USA are completely empty I’m pretty sure that’s the Pyrenees there I don’t have time to check but it’s great this is this is I couldn’t have asked for anything better really right
Well it says Wesker 1 km over there and it’s uh 11:00 so I’ve done 50 in 2 hours so that means uh 5100 15200 250 so that’s another 4 hours so 12 1 2 3 4 4 5:00 if if I keep this pace this insane Pace up uh I don’t think it’s possible
But it’s durable today 170 Mi is doable this is zesa biggest town I have to contend with that little bit navigating through Wesker took half an hour but it was nice to stop take a few pictures and just sort of roll through town I didn’t want to
Rush um but yeah certainly eats into time when you haven’t got much your best friend when you’re doing lots and lots of miles is uh petrol stations where it’s at up gorgeous new tarmac this is going to be fun this is uh the potential downfall of
This plan 170 Mi is you know it is doable on the flats but going through the mountains and it’s Mountains for a long way I do know not far from the Pyrenees it’s pretty similar there’s a little Hut here and I bookmarked it on my map map and if
I come again I’ll have a little sleep in there I think it’s the uh 13th of October here in Spain and it feels like a a late summer evening late August evening um in the UK temperature wise it’s got a nice it’s nice with a cool
Breeze I can smell some Pine from where they’ve been cutting down for some wood it’s gorgeous around here it’s like the Pyrenees but the the climbs aren’t so hard um the descents aren’t so technical um but the scenery is just as good was that necessario on a um over 250 km
Day descent was uh super fast it was long gradual no no technical turns it was awesome I don’t think I got much filming in because I was just enjoying cycling really and it was just just seen some signs over there up there for the uh Camino Santiago so I’m back
On back on that track um seen some hikers and it’s gorgeous around here it’s absolutely stunning I’m definitely going to have to come back look at this I’m definitely definitely going to have to come back at some point I want to see other places in the world first but well pain rain M
Epic might stop in sepa get some carbs I don’t know get some carbs later I’m all right at the moment might as well get some sweet Mountain Water whilst I’m here the trees are starting to turn yellow here I bet they’re more red at home maybe the leaves are even falling off
But yellow here season’s a bit later I guess well not good news I’ve had another spoke break and uh I was on fire I think I was going to make it but H mad Mia whole gang of Porche pores just went Past 7 92 km to Santiago imagine looking at that sign and knowing you got hike that trying not to let any negative thoughts creep into my head um they keep popping in but I’m going to keep going in I till I try and see if I can pay someone for a
Lift if my b b bike completely puts it’s 4:25 uh the spokes put a little dampener on my mood cuz I thought I could just keep going and um and I’m cooked absolutely cooked well it’s 5:00 not too far from pamp palona um I was just at Petrol Station
And um I bought a toer own and some Pringles and I saw a french guy there with a van so I used Google translate and I tried to see if he could pay me to see if I could pay him to taxi me because I’ve got a Broken Spoke anyway
He’s heading north back into France in the Pyrenees wasn’t going my direction Direction so maybe not the best person to ask um anyway I tried and uh I’m just going to keep going 9% and I’m cooked absolutely cooked tomorrow I think I’m going to have to have more caffeine in the middle
Of the day the caffeine’s worn off it’s probably an absolutely ridiculous idea but there’s a nice chilled little picnic spot here and I’m I’m just going to have a nap 6:23 got less than 2 hours before the sun goes down I’m nearly halfway of my journey so
I’m going to look well I’m probably a bit less but I’m going to I’m going to look for a hotel and hopefully I get a good night good solid night sleep super busy here because there’s a toll roll road behind me but I’m veering off soon anyway I’ve got a big bit on
The side that was a Camino side I hear Music today was very busy [Applause] by me all by me this is easily my favorite hotel in the whole of Spain I had my favorite meal here um and they’ve gave me a pretty cool thing to open my almonds bag of almonds here um all of these a whole bag um that should do me tomorrow night
For some protein um still got a load of pomegranates that I picked from earlier they last me a while and um yeah feeling good nice rustic Nutcracker love it