The Spanish escape, cycling in Andalucia, Torremolinos, Malaga

This is my winter escape from the eternal darkness in the Swedish winter. Just a 4 day trip to feel alive again.
Day one: https://www.strava.com/activities/13389529115
Day two: https://www.strava.com/activities/13397577810
Day four: https://www.strava.com/activities/13413311425

[Music] so good morning good morning and welcome to day two of my Spanish Adventure this is where I live on on the beach of T Molinos I live here in bildo it goes quite far from from being totally dark to no almost daylight just takes 20 minutes or something so but but today I I came out in good time so I think I’ve earned about 3 hours or something towards yesterday and by the way the ride I did yesterday here’s a short re cap from that boom all right all right all right so now I’m in Spain in Malaga and I was here last year and did this ride this climb is quite long a little update from from this climb I’ve been here for 45 minutes now in the climb and if I’m if I remember correct I’m not even halfway another update from The Climb uh so I’ve been in the climb now for 1 hour and 15 minutes and I’m not sure if I reached the top it’s uh H you know you never can tell but uh the views from here is quite [Music] nice so I think I’ve crossed the mountain now and uh going down like on the on the other side of it so I just passed col Minard a small village here up in the mountain and now it’s heading downhill woohoo [Applause] CA that’s where we’re going uh still going downhill now we’re on a on a big road big road for a big guy it’s hard to to get the views with a with a GoPro but just amazing because the the nature and the sceneries it’s different never from every turn or with every Every Mountain found a little village here after uh quite hard climb it’s I think it’s called V noo or [Music] something that was a quick lunch in that little village refill the the bottles and uh drank some uh yogurt pinacolada yogurt with the pineapple and coco coconut very nice very Spanish oh my God that was short but steep it was between 15 and 177% yep I couldn’t film it of course because I had to use both my legs and both my arms and a little little bit more this this part here was quite adventurous it’s a you know it’s not even taric anymore it’s like uh concrete and gravel the sun is uh going down it’s uh half past 5 and uh it’s time for dinner but before dinner I just need to have a beer and it’s quite cold here in the mornings we have 7° right now and this long sleeve jersey it does not it’s not that warm as it looks it’s actually it feels like it’s making things colder it just gets colder 5.4 de now yeah [Music] [Music] the sun is starting to warm up uh that wasn’t a minute too [Music] [Applause] late oh no no that was [Music] Italian it’s still Italian oh now I’m up in the in that little village and the view from here is just [Music] amazing oh and the Sun is up and it starting to get hot I think I’m it’s time to take this one off now it’s the Spanish Sun is up I bought a new saddle bag for for this season so now it’s just a perfect time to to try [Applause] it it’s nice to be able to put in some extra clothes so so you don’t have to fill up your back pockets can have just the wallet phone and some candle in it so now I just passed that little village uh and dressed Into Summer kit but look at this view now [Music] look first climb completed it took 58 minutes uh I mean wasn’t that super hard because I went slow but um look at this Valley I’m going down there [Music] now oh this was a little exciting I noticed uh the downhill here uh In the Shadows on the shadow Side of the Mountain it was like uh it looked slippery on the on the tarmac and then I saw [Music] no it’s actually Frost in the grass so I guess I have to take it easy otherwise I will be like sliding down to the to the valley and I don’t want that so just take it easy peasy in the shadows in in this Valley here the road just goes up and down and up and down it’s quite quite entertaining Road oh my God look at this yeah just pasted Little Village called elgo and uh now I’m and now actually this is the last climb to to Ronda uh as I said uh I see how far I I I go before I turn around because it it just takes longer than than I thought I just got passed by a couple of kind of rally cars I like this [Music] everyone having a blast in the mountains it’s a lot of motorcycles here also and cars and cyclists holda oh sad but true I’m turning around uh I still got 4 hours to to get home so uh I mean it’s going to be a a good day good day out I think it’s going to be like uh 150 km and uh 2 and 1 half th000 uh M of elevation that’s okay but the weather the roads woo the views [Music] so El burgo is kind of a meeting meeting spot for motorcyclist uh it’s just they’re everywhere and I can I understand that oo nice so was quite stiff headwind here so I guess feels like a a good decision to to turn around ah maybe but uh yeah it’s going up it’s going down and I think it’s going to continue to do that for for a while so I don’t know I mean it was 800 M uh I guess this is the biggest climb on the way back and i’ after coin The Village I think I have one more climb uh ah big bigger CL climbs look I think I just found a new favorite road here around T Molinos this one was great from uh that the top up there and through a village called J quera or something and we’re heading to coin so G Cil had stopped about M up I mean if you live here and train this mountains that’s just cheating yeah you should be small and fat and come from Sweden that’s the way to do it yeah but what what I was saying is that in that corner there Gia sevil has stopped about 20 motorcyclist and was checking out their bikes and stuff so I think now we’re just getting straight into the back country h on a really rural uh uh ah it’s so steep I’m not kidding that was about 10 15% with one arm but good arm really really strong oh yeah amazing I know I say amazing a lot but uh you know when it’s amazing it’s just amazing so I don’t want to lie so now we are in coin and I think it’s only 30 km to go to T Molinos now from here so maybe I can you know treat myself with a lunch or something I only eaten a banana and some candy yeah we’ll see if I find something that looks nice uh it’s only about uh 15 km to go and I actually think that it’s Malaga down there and we are back to Tor Molinos uh I think it was like uh 140k and uh I mean I can check 135 km and and uh 7 hours so that’s 7 hours and if I’m correct that will be seven beers also so let’s stop for a beer so back at the apartament bildo no B onildo yeah [Music] good morning so today is the last day uh day four of my winter Escape in Tor Molinos Malaga uh well yesterday it was a kind of a off day because it was raining it it was cold rainy and cloudy the whole day and I was actually quite quite tired and had some pain in my ailles tendon uh I still feel it uh but I will not let that uh uh stop me from from today’s ride I started with going the wrong way uh yeah as always uh well so uh today last day uh I need to do a shorter ride because I taking the flight the the transfer comes at uh 3 or something and uh I need to be back by then of course uh so it will be a short ride today uh 7 kilm it’s a really strange Mist uh I don’t know where it is it’s it doesn’t smell anything like a fire or something but I mean I it’s I mean now it’s 10:00 I wonder how it was here at in the morning 8 or something now it seems like I’ve come uh above the the Mist oh finally now I’m on the road between Kama and Coin and uh the sun is coming through yeah and it’s it’s still quite cold it’s 10° and I’ve been out for 1 hour now so it’s perfect that uh the sun comes up now cuz otherwise it’s kind of boring to not see anything but this is nice [Music] thank [Music] you check out this view it’s uh quite [Music] impressive oh wow holy [Applause] that Hill there from Alin that one felt oh my well well it’s almost the last climb for for this trip so I gave it a little extra but look at this view here it’s just amazing it’s uh I think it’s ferola that is down here it’s okay from here now I have about 15 km to go and from here it’s going to be almost only downhill well feels like a perfect ending to finish at the [Music] beach oh wow that was the last uh off the bike beer here in uh in Spain feels a little bit sad actually it was a good place highly recommended [Music]