Cycling

It's official, we can tire the dogs out! We went to the Via Verde, 3rd time lucky for cycling. When we arrived the man that has the bikes was not there but there was a phone number so we called him and he came down. There was a bit if confusion as there was another 2 people there for bikes and he thought we were them so we almost got their bikes. However, he agreed to go and get us more bikes, in the meantime another couple arrived, it transpired that the first set of bikes should have been theirs - anyway it was all sorted out eventually and we got 4 mountain bikes, they were in a sorry state but they went!

We set off, the dogs thought it was great fun, running back and forward between the 4 of us. We cycled through the first tunnell, the lights came on fine. All was going well. The next tunell had lights but they did not work so we spent over 100 metres feeling our way along the wall in total darkness, it must be like this to be blind - not a nice thought.



The dogs ran between us for a while and it did occur to me that 30km might just be too much for them but we were committed, we stuck to a steady speed and kept stopping.

We saw a few other walkers, a British couple were walking along, she seemed to be carrying all their posessions in a carrier bag.

We passed this goat that was sitting on the top of a car

This might be a thistle of some sort, any ideas Jutwallah
This rainbow round the sun was very spectacular, it might be a Brochens Specter.

We had lunch and cycled back, the dogs were struggling, everytime we stopped they lay down panting so we took it really slowly. We eventually came back to the long dark tunnell, thankfully a couple of French cyclists came through and turned back with us to light the way for us. We made it back at 6pm after 30km exactly of cycling. All sore and tired.

When we got home we went for a snack to Fuente, John and Jenny turned up too. I took the dogs out, Dan was so tired I had to carry him down the stairs, he really cant walk a step.