Tony gets the 1st track of the day wrong – puddles and running water from yesterdays rain – road riding into Aragon – missing Police bike stops – mountain passes – up to the snow line – friendly donkeys – THAT stream crossing – the Smugglers Trail into Andorra. – WHAT a days ride!
First trail of the day. San Martin Di I’ll wait for Tony who who overshot the trail. Right, let’s see what the first trail of the day brings then. One nil, I’m afraid, Tony. Back in flying formation. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Well recovered now. Not a bad first climb, eh? Heat. Heat. Oh, right. Okay. Missing out part of the route. Is that right? Yeah. That’s the rock slide road. Oh, that’s the rock slide road. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That we saw on the internet. Well, we’re not going down that one after the diversion and the uh road lock. You do realize you’re encouraging new when you go over those little humps. He’s He’s loving it. It’s like the Zen master and his pupil. Yeah, Aragon had some good tarmac. I don’t know if it’s Catalan, but it said Cataloonia. So, or Catalan rather. Yeah. Cool. Five. Is that really five kilometers long? 5.230. Yeah. 5 km. I always think tunnels are impressive feet of engineering. cafe looking time. She was giving another place a good look. There’s a whole bunch of people over there, is there? Well, yeah, it’s the uh Monday morning rambling group. Possible coffee time. Nice little hotel though. And now 10 km to the top of the pass by the looks of it. Plenty of water coming down after that storm yesterday, isn’t it? Meadowy area in the middle of the pass, isn’t it? I think um it re it recommends 4x4s for this bit of the trail. So with only two wheels, we’re going to struggle, aren’t we? It’s beautiful through these forests, isn’t it? Kib’s looking good in front. She’s very smooth. Okay, pick a good line. He does pick a good line now. Yeah. Out into the Alpine Meadows. See some 4x4s up the hill in front of us. We’ll have to get rid of them, won’t we? I can say the mountain bike is doing well. Thank you. And of course on the mountain side real real splashes of that golden yellow color. Thank you guys. Thanks. Thanks very much. Cheers, guys. Thank you. You come all this way and you meet a bunch a bunch of Brits driving 4x4s. Honestly, listen to the outside. God, I can smell the broom. Heat up here. Yeah, it’s the rear he prefers, especially when there’s a fold like there are on the left hand I love the one absolutely flopped out. This is more like my memory of the Pyrenees as in the gray up in the snow. Yeah. I’m videoing Kim and Tony as they’re videoing me. Oh dear. I suppose the saying is true that what comes up must go down. It does look as though we’re going down. Whoa, I didn’t see it. Sorry, I didn’t stop in time. Sorry. Oh dear. Oh well. I nearly got you, Tony, by accident. Mountain. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Where do you want to be? Where you want to be? Heat. Heat. Do you want to be? Do you want to be? Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat.