Barcelona

Off we go then, just me and Jason today, Rod having decided to sit it out and play with his pictures and technology. We headed of with a surprisingly early start for us, through the murderous traffic filled streets of Andorra through customs and out into Spain. I followed Jason along a beautiful road with a huge lake on our left. On a quick bit of road we missed our turning towards Barcelona and carried on and found another road, through dry, barron, desert like scenery, with some nice bends with straights good enough for 240+kms. We used motorway for the final leg into Barcelona, and parked up by the harbour with a fine view of the Mediterranean. Next we went in search of La Sagrada Famillia, which unfortunately was covered in scaffold. We sat down for some lunch, unfortunately it was tourist priced, or may have been revenge for Jason breaking his glass.

We left for home through the nightmare traffic and off onto the motorway. The hills outside Barcelona were on fire, with smoke billowing across the motorway, a plane and a fleet of helicopters ferrying water from a nearby lake and dropping it on the flames. After miles of motorway we came past a beautiful green lake, I missed a spot to pull in which meant Jason missed a great photo opportunity. We carried on into a tunnel which must've been 5kms long, and icy cold. At the end I offered to pay the toll for both bikes to speed things up, I was a little surprised to be asked for €18 and thought I was being handed a fine for overtaking in the S0S lane, I wasn't, no wonder then there weren't may cars on the road, I dread to think what it would cost!

This road lead out onto the N260, which in this part although not as mad as the road to Sort the surface was new and there were some good sweeping bends.

Back at the hotel Jason informed me you shouldn't over take on solid white lines, I always thought they meant only bikes could overtake...





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