Sunrise. Our favourite time of the day. |
Mountain bikers heaven! |
The morning for us have become power time! We bang out a good 30km straight up before we stop for second breakfast. Today we stopped in Puebla de Sanabria, an amazing town with a beautiful castle and some incredibly steep hills! Ben and I powered up one of the cobble stone climbs to the cheers of the locals. They couldn't believe we were even attempting it let alone making it to the top! Breakfast was a feast of grad proportions with coffee, toast with tomato and olive oil (our favourite) and tortilla. Yum! Energy food!
Even steeper than it looks! |
Castle |
Would you like hills with that? |
We arrived in the town of Lubian at about 2:30pm. This was our planned stop for the day, but I was feeling pretty good and we have left ourselves with a massive final day into Santiago so decided to press on and try to do a few more km. we stopped first for lunch. A three course feast cause I was starving!
Lunch in stinky bike clothes. They don't even bat an eye. |
Keep on pushing! |
Almost at the top |
We arrived in Vilavella, another 85km done. We were expecting to stay in an albergue when I saw a sign for a hotel and spa. SPA!!!!! I wanted it so bad!!!! I went in and asked and we got a special pilgrim rate! So now here I am sitting in luxury after having spent a good hour and a half soaking my sore legs and thoroughly relaxing. Ahhhh. Feels even better than a rest day :-)
Happy bicigrino |
Spaaaaaaaaa |
With views of the mountains |
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