Girona Day 3

Gravel Heaven 😍 Plucked a good looking route from Komoot and what a hit. Out of town with no faffing .. well just a tad. Past the Nescafé factory 😳, and onto a gravel trail most of the way to Amer. We hit a serious MTB like climb which broke poor Dr McMinn ( tyres...

Girona Day 2

The Dos Kiwis tour as billed by Doc Mcminn only produced one Kiwi unfortunately and he was not for making any coffee. Early start with an entertaining trip around Girona only to land back nearly where we started , eventually back to the start of yesterday’s route and...

Girona day 1

Easy day. Very hot and with trip ahead planned no heroics. Had to keep Doc Mcminn under control mind. nice breakfast 🤤 The headed on a limit inspired loop mostly flat gravel but one big climb/ descent back into town. Beautiful countryside once we escaped the town....

Girona. Arrival

First time travelling with a cardboard box for the bike. Actually fairly painless. Special area in the airport for building bikes. Although the track pump didn’t work. Out of airport. Fairly easy. Within 500 m we were on a greenway. The trip in nice but the bike path...

Overlanders day 11

Return to base. After a relatively chilled day yesterday we had a fair spin back to memminghem today Nice coffee stop after the first rain we had on the trip. So waterproofs were on . Then onward. More beautiful scenery and mountain passes. Not just so much fun in the...

Overlanders day 10

Penultimate day 🥲 Multiple choice day. Trip to Hitlers Nest , or red bull museum , or do nothing or a bike spin. Noel , Brendan, Melissa and Noreen stayed at hotel. The rest of us rode to car park for Hitlers nest. Cyril , Emma and Jim went to see Hitlers Nest ....