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Day 4/5 Riding – Same village – October 2

WOW! What a great day! The best ride of the trip!

1) I changed bikes – from the regular road bike to a road bike with electric assistance. And it’s all automatic. I change gears the same as a regular road bike only now when I reach a certain cadence I can feel help kicking in. I really, really liked it. And I did the entire ride including a tough uphill at the end.

2) It was cooler and cloudy today – perfect riding conditions. We even had some mist but no rain.

3) The roads were even better with very little traffic.

4) We took two breaks and because I was keeping up that gave me time to enjoy the stop. We even had a coffee at one break.

We finished the ride about noon at a place where we could see the largest man-made lake in Europe. On the other side was Spain. We walked up a final steep stairs to the village on top of the hill. We found a great small shop selling soap, Gin, and olive oil. Great fun! I photographed two young girls, the first named Madeline, a two year old from Italy.

Karen arrived by taxi and was already seated at the restaurant. We enjoyed another delicious meal with multiple courses served family style, along with sangria to wash it down. We probably spent more than two hours relaxing and enjoying the meal and the conversation.

Dinner was arranged at the hotel. Our group met at the bar so I could teach the bartender how to make DuncanTini’s for the three guys. They tasted so very fine! We even managed to get Karen to tell some of her off color stories. 

What a wonderful day!!!