An afternoon ride into the hills and down to the beach in an area which would have been rather beautiful but has been devastated by mineral extraction. It was still a very good ride, but one wonders how the landscape can ever be made good again.
Yeah which is pretty good let’s see if I get the right angle looks good look hope it doesn’t [Applause] [Applause] rain up to the next one go over the other side of the oh he’s going across there I’m going up Road up this way up the Road I know it’s terrible this is a video of US cycling from our campsite in lamanga Spain with our friend Daniel to some wine workings up the hills past Portman and then down to the beach it was a very nice day sunny and in the end of December and looking pretty good about
20° very nice indeed [Applause] [Applause] here we’re going through the small town of Los bones which has grown quite conely since we’ve been coming here for the last 10 years this is usually quite a busy road but they’ve kindly provided a bike path up on side so we sort of kept away from
Most of the traffic hey so we’re on the road from L manga to somewhere near portsman and then a bit beyond the ghast it’s really a beautiful day beautiful day to recycling a Long Hill up here now very fine Hotel up there an apartment I don’t know this is the golf course associated
With it all Club lamanga yeah yeah Out you was going a bit fast he was going a bit fast wasn’t he the motorbike we’re going down the road down here oh on Yeah we were there up to the right a bit sort of straight on in that probably this is a village of Portland which will really quite nice and in a nice place except that all the waste from the mineral work has been of washed down and so the bay is covered in this
Muddy sort of stuff trying to reclaim it but it’s going to take years and years to Mo back to anything like a nice place to be on the beach that’s where we came out just there don’t F to going the other way around Then this is the second of the hills that we were climbing this one went up to about 150 M and this one goes up 180 up near the M workings really nice views out across the coast El Right looks a bit steep Somewhere Spectacular He We Came Down a Bumpy track and then ended up at the coast on this beach which wasn’t a Sandy Beach it was a very muddy Beach which is the the waste from all the the Mind workings around the the hills here this beach is popular with
People who go fishing CU there’s a fish farm just off of the uh the beach here and I guess there’s quite a lot of skps off oh hello what did you forget I forgot that bathroom ah good Idea The climb back out of the beach was a bit bumpy and slow but lucky we do have electric assistance nowadays and we cheated at the top and avoided the most bumpiest and steepest St faes and ended up on the same road but just a little bit further Along W Climbed to back up to the mine workings which have been abandoned the last mining was done in 1992 in this area uh and they don’t really know what to do to get rid of all the rubbish that has been left flying around an ecological disaster It was in time for a ride down a nicely surfaced Road downhill and speeding towards Portman it’s just about the Grand Canyon A Oh [Applause] It’s very cute bridge you didn’t really have time and here we are climbing up the last Hill out of Portland up to the top and then ready for a speed down along past the golf Course and want okay Spe Here we are back in Los bones and almost home back to the [Applause] campsite Hello we made it He