September 25th-27th - Crossing to Còrdoba

We thought after we had left the mountains the cycling would get easier - sadly this wasn't the case. This was the beginning of our service lane nightmare. We read somewhere that all the motorways had service lanes that you could cycle along. We confidently set off along the service lane, and it was awful. The tarmac ran out and it became stoney/rutty/bumpy and took ages to cycle along - with quite a bit of walking. Sadly we'd now committed to the service lane thing for a while and were stuck. Quite often it would switch sides of the motorway without any indication. To try and avoid the service lanes we went down some "agricultural tracks" which were potentially even worse. We did cycle along some lovely roads along rivers and reservoirs, and mostly wildcamped in fields of olive trees. We arrived in Còrdoba in the morning and spent the day sightseeing - it's a fab city. We specially loved the mesquita.