Mari and Dave

Or: To the mountains! Which one it is, is left to interpretation. The Spanish word: Loma = mountain or Lomo = porkchop. The mountains became less daunting when we called them “porkchops”, so we did.

a view of my villa ( I wish ) and the Mediterranean

Now we are back from Spain and finally had a chance to upload our photos. Between Dave & I, there are over 500 photos. With this accumulation of photographs, there will be several blog entries just to get the good photos posted on the site!

For the first of our two week bicycle trip, there were six of us. At the midway point, Jennie & Richard returned to Sweden and the remaining four continued on. The first half of the trip had us heading east of our base city: Malaga. For the second half we headed north and west and then south to Morocco.

The cathedral in Malaga

My café solo and fresh churros for breakfast.  Such good coffee.

continuing along the coast while keeping an eye to the mountains

The first day was flat along the coast which was a great way to overcome some jet lag. Unfortunately this could not last as we turned north and headed into the Alpujarras of the Sierra Nevada. The Alpujarras are these whitewashed towns tucked up in the top of the valleys. Quite breathtaking. Our goal was to ride to Trevélez, the highest inhabited town in Spain. After about four hours of straight up climbing in the midday sun, we made it. After a well deserved rest, we started the descent into Lanjaron. What a great reward for the hard work of the day.

Those snow capped mountains behind us are the Sierra Nevadas

How to recover from the first day of climbing.  These beers cost 1.20€ each.

Sangria! When in Rome…

Breakfast in Orgiva before our big climb day

That is Trevélez – tucked in amongst the Sierra Nevadas