Definitely!

I love Parc Guell! You make me want to go back to Barcelona!

This is an amazing cathedral! It’s definitely in my top 3 and the most unique of any cathedrals I’ve seen. We had a great tour guide when we saw it.

Lion's ear... quite unique!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonotis_leonurus

Hi Steve, I'm a little late getting back to you. We've just arrived home and have been busy with unpacking and getting organized back into regular life.
I see there's a forum going on mapping/routing software. Rather than go on at length on how we plan our routes, the post that Rich Frasier put in sums up almost exactly how we do our route planning.

As for your specific question on how we chose our route from Girona to Sant Feliu, there is a well marked /signposted Via Verde (VV2) that runs from Girona to Sant Feliu and it shows up on OSM Cycle. Where these coincide with where we want to go, we just get on them and ride with no specific route planning. We sometimes 'force' a route along these already designated routes by picking way points along the designated route, but only to ensure that Kirsten and I are following the same route if by chance we get separated.

The other thing we do, which does not seem to be that common, is to simply use our planned routes and maps as 'dumb' maps (albeit electronic versions). We never use turn cues or any real time guidance, that's what our eyes and brains are for.

We export gpx tracks from RWGPS to the Pocket Earth app on our phones and then just use it as a regular map. We find Pocket Earth extremely useful (it's a iOS version of OSMAND which I believe you have used). We have all the countries we plan on being in downloaded on our phones, including topo maps, and we find the map rendering of Pocket Earth immeasurably better than Google maps, or most other mapping packages. You can actually see the roads with 60+ year old eyes (not varying shades of light grey on light grey that Google seems to favour - I'll stop there).

Anyway, we just use Pocket Earth as an 'electronic / scalable' hard copy map, and our position on the map is shown at all times making it easy to see where you are and where you want to go.

We also find that once you've been in a country for a while you get a good feel for what the roads are like so you can make route deviations when you want with some confidence. The topo maps are useful for this too as designated bike routes sometimes go through town centres, which are often at the top of hills, and if you don't want to or need to go into such towns, you can pretty easily see if there is anther road that bypasses the town without going up a hill and then rejoins your marked route a few km's later.

Again, we use our eyes and brains rather than have a mellifluous electronic voice tell us where to turn.

Long answer to the short question I know.

Yes I agree. We have had a few opportunities to participate in something similar to this and it great. Multiple generations mixing with neighbours etc. It creates a great community.

So beautiful!

I loved seeing your dishes from dinner. It all looks amazing and as you said delicious. However I love this too, everyone outside eating together. I wish we did more of things like this in Canada.

I liked your tracks analogy a lot! We lack some of the patience needed to closely read and follow some of the touring greats, so we often rely on map books like those of Bikeline, or algorithms like Komoot, RWGPS, and even Google Maps! With these, we are hoping to be in Girona by this November, heading for Valencia. We see that you headed from Girona directly via a bikeway to the coast at Sant Fileu. But the algorithms want us inland. How did you choose your Girona to Barcelona route?

October was very civilized, except for market day!

We enjoyed our week long stay and cycling in this region last year. Best crepes ever were in Proissans.

Thanks Pat. We met up today and visited the Park Güell and will check out how Sagrada Familia has changed in 20 years tomorrow.
Got the bike boxed today which is always a relief.

Thanks Racheal. It was challenging at times but we both enjoyed it immensely. We really appreciate all the routes that others shared that we pieced together to make a wonderful tour.

Yes it was …from a distance! Unfortunately this is one on “the” places to go on the Costa Brava and we’ve seen a day by day increase in the number of people here over the last week. If we came again I’d want to be here in May or late September.

She is full of energy and very welcoming.