From La Calahorra I was headed to Orgiva where I would meet Sam. I didn’t realise that there was a massive col over the Sierra Nevada.
I seemed to be level with high altitude snow that I hadn’t expected so far south and in the middle of summer.
It was down and down but then more and more hills. The day ended with almost 2000 meters elevation gain and just over 90 kms. No doubt it was getting very very hot. I was glad not to have more cycling today.
Sam lives very near the coast which is beautiful except for the ubiquitous hectare upon hectare of plastic greenhouses that supplies much of Europe’s vegetables and fruit.
This post is “last post” because there is a heatwave going on with temperatures in the 40’s. So I took a bus to Cordoba after a day with Sam.
