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Day 2 - To Sigüenza, Castilla-La Mancha - 152 miles
Stats
Actual distance 155.9 miles
Moving Average 39.8 mph
Total Average 21.6 mph
Moving Time 3:55
Stopped Time 3:17
Total Time 7:12
Minimum Temperature 58.9°F
Maximum Temperature 83.3°F
Day 2
Day 2 profile
Day 2 temperatures
Got going the next morning at 10:15 and some excellent road down the Lr113. After it crosses the Rio Najerilla it is patchy but they are working on this so I expect in 2 years time this will be a good surface.
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Lr113 after it crosses Rio Najerilla, some improvement but not a lot. |
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And definitely no improvement here. The road surface makes this a demanding ride, but enjoyable nonetheless. Further along on some of the straight sections they are a good test of your suspension settings :-) |
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12:06, Alt 3452 ft, N42.11938 W3.22921 at Barbadillo Del Pez
stopping for a coffee and water. A group of English bikes went
past. Bother, someone else knows about this road.
Then off to Salas de Los Infantes and more Brit bikes spotted.
Petrol stop. Then onwards down the N234. We were supposed to
turn right before San Leonardo de Yagüe but the road I had planned was
not even a gravel track - OK for the Tiger, not much good for the rest of
us. This was quite fortuitous since the new GPS route calculation
took us down the So920 and the Cañón Del Río Lobos ..... |
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with its wonderful spectacle. |
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That's where our road goes. |
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And this is the road |
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Some parts are very new.
Just after this we stopped for lunch at a small café at Ucero
14:28:29, Alt 3121 ft, 80.2 °F, N41.71798 W3.04982 and
eventually got going (after Andy had managed a "Postre"
(desert)) over an hour later. The "postres" became a
feature of Andy's culinary exploration of Spain. |
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Aside from the odd tractor halfway around a bend, not much
traffic was encountered on these roads
Then on to El Burgo de Osma and then the C116, across the Rio Duero and then on to the So 152/3 that becomes the Gu153 and then the Cm110 for the last few miles. The temperature rising to the mid 80s and Neil was really happy that he had the Raptor jacket. |
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Andy, with backing group, doing a rendition of "Is this the road to Amarillo?" - no, it's the road to Sigüenza. Well he was relying on Michelin maps and no GPS. |
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Parador De Sigüenza, will they let us Infidels in? We arrived at 17:20. |
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In the courtyard of the castle. No problem with this fountain's hydration levels |
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More shots of the courtyard |
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The castle from afar. There was a large group of Brit bikers staying there that night. |
The accommodation at the hotel was very agreeable. We decided to walk down the hill and eat out of the hotel that night and found an excellent "Olde Worlde" (Spanish version) restaurant. When we had finished the meal we were served with some interesting liquid. "Oh no." said Neil, "unless I am mistaken, this is Aguadiente." It was. Aguadiente means literally devil's water. I could see the evening was going to degenerate. Cuenta paid and fully fuelled we glided up the hill to the castle. Andy said that he would like an Spanish brandy as a nightcap and let Neil choose. I said that Neil would get his revenge for the comments about his eccentricity when tasting the wine, which made Jilly Goolden look like an introvert - well he did. He selected Ciento-Tres for Andy. I have never tried to taste lighter-fuel but I imagine that it would taste a bit like that. Andy seemed to like it because he went and got another one!
I could see it would be a slow start the next day.
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