Bondage and Boars

Daily Stats

Distance 42kms

Time 2 hours 43 mins

Elevation  854 meters

Speed 15.5kph

Daily Disasters

1. Forgot to publish yesterday.
2. Tent footprint t covered in mud
3. Rained all night. 

After the rain all night the grassy ground was muddy, not to bad but packing up was a bit muddy messy.  Mist was swirling and my fingers were cold and numb as I put the bags on my bike.

Straight up into the small town for a coffee and cake.

Then on the road? My timing was perfect as the mist was slowly burning off. Despite this my fingers were still frozen. 

I stopped for a moment to adjust something on the bike and  as I put down I heard a snuffling behind me, and not 5 meters away was a wild boar just standing watching me, I manoeuvred my bike between it and me, my quick draw of the camera was good and I snapped this just before it trotted off.

The route today was flat up down flat. The first part was so pleasant a few towns there was the obligatory toast and tomatoes luckily this was just at the bottom of the climb. Basically yesterday and this morning I followed the valley of the Guadalquivir River and now I had hit the end of the valley and was climbing out. The road zig zagged precipitously up. I kept to a small gear and spun with ease.

Then up snd over the pass and speeding down a switch back road

Finally into Cazorla and to my campsite. I know only snother 40kms today but, well I’m trying to avoid the rain, I have been successful so far, here’s 🤞🤞🤞 for tomorrow.