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24 Mar 2015
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We took our lunch break near to the castle at Priego.
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24 Mar 2015
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We finished the day in Belmonte at a hotel built on a castle ruins.
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24 Mar 2015
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In the morning we had a photo session for the hotel and the newspaper in front of the hotel and then at the Belmonte castle.
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The route back to the city was also on curvy small roads.
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We stopped for lunch in a town near Madrid that has one of the oldest main Plazas in the country.
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14 Apr 2015
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Guys ride
As Dan says “moments from the Guys ride” 260 km to Palencia and then back.
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14 Apr 2015
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Cazorla
We have managed to kill off two weeks here in Spain while we waited for our Swedish friend Orvar to start heading south to meet us. We will tour the south of Spain until he catches up.
Today we rode back 200 km to La Solana on the highway and then on the secondary roads to Cazorla in another 155 km.
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cazorla 1 by Worldwide Ride.ca, on Flickr
This route was over the mountains thru quaint villages and on curvy mountain roads.
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14 Apr 2015
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Cazorla is a village with a history going back more than 2000 years. This was once a Roman town called Carcacena. Here lived once one of the first Bishops of Christian Spain. The Moors used this strategic local as one of the fortresses guarding the mountains. This stronghold was finally taken in 1235 during “the reconquista” by Christian troops.
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Riding here you go past thousands of acres of olive trees and you can clearly smell the ripening fruits.
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The town is a maze of very narrow “streets” lines with whitewashed houses and buildings. Since the village is on a hillside there are many steep roads and also stairways crisscrossing it. To keep the tourists from getting lost there is a path marked out on a route thru the main plazas. From the town there are a number of “caminos” or pilgrim walks/hikes into the mountains.
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The scenery was great and so was the road.
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The temperature was dropping quickly despite the sunshine over the first pass, but there were patches of snow on the roadside.
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By the time we made it to the second pass crossing the weather had changed for the colder and wetter. There was wet snow falling, but the road was clear. It was pretty chilly at 1 degree!
mojacar 11 by Worldwide Ride.ca, on Flickr
mojacar 12 by Worldwide Ride.ca, on Flickr
We arrived in Mojacar after 300 km chilled and very hungry. Different groups since around 2000 BC have inhabited this place. This included Phoenician traders, Carthaginians, Greeks, and North African Islamic Moors. Ultimately the Christian Spanish won it in battle in 1488. It is perched on the hilltop in a strategic location and is a mass of narrow streets lined with white wash buildings.
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