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La Solana/Yeste
For the weekend we headed south of Madrid to the village Modesto grew up in. La Solana is 200 km of highway driving, but it gives you access to tons of curvy mountain roads. The rest of the weekend was a loop into the mountains to the village of Yeste and back for 790 km.
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First we stopped at his family home where he has a full motorcycle workshop. We needed to do oil changes on both bikes, install Daniel’s new front disks and brake pads, clean the air filters.
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Headed home we passed lots of small villages perched on hills and acres of olive trees.
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First we stopped for a traditional Spanish lunch of the menu del dia. This usually is massive. Today this included salad, paella with snails and chicken, squid and fries, , cake and coffee.
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We also checked out the Cathedral, which is said to display THE cup from the last supper, the Holy Grail. You can climb up the 272 stairs for the 360-degree view of the city.
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Valencia is famous for its oranges and Borjas of course, but also for the crazy Fallas festival. This is celebrated on Father’s day and involves a lot of fire works explosions and the burning of huge fantasy sculptures.
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Ladies on the road
This weekend we had separate guys and girls rides planned. Daniel had a guys ride to Palencia, but first Sara was off to ride with Alicia Sornosa for her “Ladies on the road Spain”event. Thanks to the other ladies for some of the photos.
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The ladies met up in Madrid and then headed way off the main roads on one-lane tracks thru small pretty villages.
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