12-14th of September - Hello Barcelona!

12-14th of September - First few days in Spain.

12th - I really wanted to go to Girona because of its fabled place in pro-cycling. From our campsite in Colera it seemed like it was achievable to get there to coffee, or at least lunch. We started along a very very very long road, with a very very very very strong headwind, in very very very strong sunshine, in very very very very busy traffic. We saw a 32 km to go sign, and after this the kilometres seemed to drop incredibly slowly.. We eventually got to Girona at about 4! We had a lovely coffee in an incredible shop which had some sort of futuristic coffee bean roasting machine which took up an entire room! After that we headed towards the coast until we ran out of light and wildcamped in a forest, near Caldes de Malavella. The only negative bit of this was we were surrounded by dogs that barked all night.

13th - Today we thought we'd have an easy ride to the campsite at Barcelona. It turns out this was definitely famous last words. We hit the coast at Pineda de Mar and then followed it to Barcelona. This was absolutely gorgeous. We went through a place called Sainta Susanna which made me really miss my very lovely cousin Susannah. After that we hugged the beach. Then we got to Barcelona which it turns out is huge. It took us hours to get through Barcelona and we kept ending up on main roads. Eventually we arrived at the campsite which seeemed to be bang next door to the airport runway.

14th - We had our first full rest day of the trip and spent the day sight-seeing in Barcelona! This was not restful but it was very interesting. No camera so no photos!