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That's not much of a shoulder, is it?
1 year agoFunny how some of our best photos are accidental...
And so many "shoulda" shots are missed by being in the moment. But that's ok too. The moment will never return.
Funny. I had the same question when I looked at this photo. I didn’t see it at the time. Probably an imperial eagle.
1 year agoSo wonderful that you met up with Judy and Ken. Such a small world. They were the folks who linked us to your 2019 journal that took you through Puglia and subsequently inspired our CPH to Lecce tour later that year (and introduced us to CycleBlaze!)
1 year agoWhat bird is that?
1 year agoYeah, you would've!
1 year agoCool landscape.
1 year agoWow. That's eerily impressive.
1 year agoFunny about those glasses! I've had 3 pairs of reading glasses since I had my laser surgery about 15 years ago. As soon as I no longer needed coke bottle glasses, I opted for rimless-bottom specs. None of them have ever had a lens come out and they all got worn a lot as I needed them for work. The current ones are overdue for replacement but the lenses are still firmly in place.
1 year agoI saw that, because in one of the versions of this tour we were going to visit the delta. It’s apparently the principal rice cultivation area of Spain. It’s nothing like that up here though, maybe 200 miles into the interior. These are just a few isolated flooded fields that suggest rice but might be something else.
1 year agoWe will be riding through the Ebro delta, I believe, and it is apparently a rice growing region.
1 year agoCorrect! Possibly a Convolvulus hawkmoth.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/124031-Agrius-convolvuli/browse_photos?place_id=6774
You really could piece together a fine trip starting and ending in Bilbao, or even a one way tour that ended in Barcelona. There is so much to see here within several hundred miles, on both the French and Spanish sides of the Pyrenees. Also, it’s probably one of your better options in southern Europe if you’re limited to a summer tour, not likely to be as hot as your tour this year.
1 year agoI'm thinking a start in Bilbao and following your footsteps is a good idea.
1 year ago
A little thin alright, now that you mention it. Fortunately there was little traffic on this stretch and the driver were invariably considerate. No problemo!
1 year ago