Day 98 25th October
27miles (around El Palmar) Average speed 8.8 mph top speed 22 mph
I left the campsite after brekkie of magdelenas and Fanta and headed towards Conil de la Frontera but the beach road ran out at a river so I had to go back and get on the main road.
(Ermintrude: this website http://www.vejerdelafrontera.co.uk/beaches.html gives an overview of this coast and an idea of how far the beach road runs.)
Eventually found a bank and bought lunch and tomorrow’s brekkie. Looked around town and had a coffee then followed beach path to the river I couldn’t cross earlier. It was very sandy and hard on the legs. Mountain bikes were OK but tough in my thin tyres. I thought there was a road back to main road but I found myself back at the river I had avoided earlier. A Dutch couple showed me the way to cross it and I carried bike across up to my shorts in the water. Great fun and I took photos of them and vice versa.
Headed back to campsite for lunch with some cats.(Ermintrude: Is this jive talkin’ or were they real cats?) Then to garage for air and on road back to beach I found some great firewood at a rubbish site. Then a few hours on the beach watching surfers and back for pasta dinner cooked with good dry firewood.
(Ermintrude; Brian the Snail won his race at Catterick short odds at 5/6 but this is only his second race, so worth watching)