December 5, 2018
In Figueres: day ride to the NW
After all the splendor, drama and fireworks of the last four days, today’s loop from Figueres is just a ride. Very pretty countryside, pleasant quiet roads, excellent cycling. Not a candidate for best or most beautiful or most interesting day of the tour. Just a fine ride. A good thing, because if the intensity keeps amping up like it has been I’m not sure my old heart will survive the year.
So I’ll take a bit of a blog break here, and just drop some photos in. There is a bit of drama to the day we can talk about though: can we avoid wandering off onto an atrociously bad road for an entire ride? Will we make it back to town to see Figueres’s best known attraction, the Salvador Dali Museum before it closes? Will we see anything truly exceptional or new today, or will this really be just another ride, one we might easily forget? Will our increasingly creaky and grindy bikes see us through another day?
Answers to these vexing questions will follow, but first let’s look at the photos. As long as the weather is good enough to break the camera out (and today’s weather, once again, is beautiful), there’s always at least something worth taking a shot at.
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So the answers to the burning questions of the day?
No, we didn’t make it back in time to visit the Dalí museum. That possibility fell off the agenda when we dallied so long in Sant Llorenc and looking at the heather.
Yes, we avoided terrible roads for an entire day, thanks to Rachael’s adamant insistence. At one point we stopped at a tempting path and I said I was going down it. No! Yes. No!! Yes. NO!!! Yes, but at this point I let on that I was just tweaking her and needed to hide behind a tree for a moment.
Yes, we found something exceptional and memorable: Sant Llorenc de la Muga. Worth a journey. And better to have come upon it unaware and surprised.
Yes, the bikes made it through another day. They both need a trip to the shop, but we’ve been holding off for Girona so we can drop them off while we take the train in to visit Barcelona. My gears are getting quite bad though, so since we’re too late for the museum anyway we stopped in at both bike shops as soon as we hit town, hoping for a quick servicing or an appointment for tomorrow. Neither is possible, at either shop - they’re both full up hurrying to complete their work before the four day holiday weekend that begins tomorrow.
We never think to research the holiday schedules, so we’re surprised by the news. Tomorrow is Constitution Day, and Saturday is Immaculate Conception Day. So, in all likelihood we won’t visit the Dalí Museum tomorrow either. We’ll have to be content with a walk around the grounds.
Ride stats today: 46 miles, 3,300’
Today's ride: 46 miles (74 km)
Total: 3,175 miles (5,110 km)
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