Catalonia & Barcelona

Day 3 - Cycle to Platja de Pals / Sa Punta

19th September 2022

Let the riding commence & Silence in Pals

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Day 1's ride - 24 miles from Calella to Sa Punta via the cobbled, hilltop village of Pals...

Hotel balcony shot...

Hotel balcony

Can't leave a hotel without admiring the fittings, it's a beauty...

Lighthouse

Like a coiled spring, ready for the off...

Leaving

First challenge not to be shot by wild boar hunters...

Boar

Miche & Pals...

Miche and Pals

Miche and I with the pretty hilltop village of Pals blurred in the distance...

Heads

Church Sant Pere in Pals...

Church

We felt it was an appropriate place to observe the 2-minute silence at 11:55 for the late Queen...

Church 2

View out to the Medes Islands...

An inviting arch...

Arch

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Tower

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Mooma

The region is big on apple growing and we spotted an a Sidreria (Cider Farm) that needed to be explored...

Mooma 1

Miche and a glass...

Mooma 2

In retrospect you'd have to have been on the cider to wear this combo...

Mooma 3

The hotel was pretty proud of its restaurant...

Hotel

Next - Day 4 - Cycle Loop - Begur

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Day 1 - London to Calella Day 2 - Calella Day 3 - Cycle to Sa Punta (Platja de Pals)

Day 4 - Cycle loop - Begur Day 5 - Cycle to Casavells Day 6 - Cycle loop - Pubol - Dali

Day 7 - Cycle to Calella Day 8 - Calella to Barcelona Day 9 - Barcelona - incl. Nou Camp

Day 10 - Barcelona - Gaudi Miró Day 11 - Barcelona to Home