Little man phoned in his report in two parts this evening, interrupted by his dinner of pork and mashed potato arriving part way through the short summary of his day. Today he has managed 110, very hilly, miles and is staying in an excellent hotel (run by Brits – hurrah) with a swimming pool found by Bob and his Spanish speaking cohorts. He, and the hotel, are in Cortes de la Frontera (the name is the same as that funny Vauxhall 4x4 that was around a while back) which he described as being in a valley with a long, steep hill back out. So long and steep Martin is dreading the climb, but as he only has 40 miles to go, 40 tough miles as he wants us to emphasis, we are quietly confident he will reach the coast.
Well, it is brunch!
He is typically vague about his onward plans, whether to get a ferry to Tangiers or some other place he described as a Spanish enclave on the African continent. Once at his African destination he doesn’t know whether he will just ride around the terminal car park, or spend a night locally before scampering back to Europe on the first available ferry.
Prompted by a comment Bob made - it's hilly around here!
He then whittered on about choosing the right route, something to do with roads in southern Spain not being what they should and ending up with nowhere to cycle, but by that time it was getting well past our bedtime so we didn’t pay enough attention. We do understand Mick will be in Malaga on Friday and that is having an impact on his tortuous decision making process but as this will be after the end of his cycling marathon, frankly, we don’t give a damn.
Hillier
Come back to tomorrow for confirmation of the end of this epic trip, we think we have all had enough of this pedalling story.
We're now on the last page of the map!
yeah he was weighing up taking the ferry to Tanger med or Cueta. Problem with Tanger Med is that it isn't actually in Tangiers which lies 40 Km to the West and from what I can gather Tanger Med is just basically a grotty commercial port. Cueta however looks really nice but...and I'm not sure whether we should tell him this...it isn't technically in Africa...it's an autonomous Spanish enclave on the African coast. If he does go there we can spend the rest of his life telling him that - technically - he never got to Africa.....but i'm not brave enough to tell him.
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