From Zaragoza to Barcelona (via Hades?)

My decision to break the journey up in Zaragoza was made not only because I heard it was a cool city and wanted to check it out, but because it’s only a relatively sedate 200 miles (320km or so) to Barcelona from there. I’m not too hungry at breakfast, so I load up on fruit and coffee, check out and I’m out of the hotel and out of the city by 9am.

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Best Laid Plans

There was no going back. And a week in Normandy, even a challenging one, seemed OK: that’s why I’d signed up for the tour in the first place. Rock up, do the riding, head out.

That is until everything else happened.

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