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Length of Stage 148 km
Altitude to climb 3050 m
Spanish breakfast as we know it
already: Croissants and excellent coffee. To digest this
„huge" meal before leaving, we have a nice walk through
the vegetable market in the no longer closed city. On our way out
of Seo de Urgel we meet some cross-country bladers and then a
beautiful ascent begins. After about two hours we find a nice
picnic bench and are ready for a second breakfast. Good idea to
buy some coke, bread and cheese! We have a chat with a German
mountainbiker who misses his race bike. We have to climb up some
more from here and then a marvelous downhill ride towards Tuixen
begins. Just shortly before the village the paved street
disappears and what’s left are stones and dirt. „The
Lady" doesn’t like it very much, and starts walking
since she is afraid to fall. Luckily it is only for about one
kilometer! In the far distance on a hill we can see a street and
we can hardly believe it, but about an hour later we have a break
at the Col de Port, on top of this very hill. Again, we enjoy a
long and most beautiful descent to St. Laurent. We are still in
the Sierra Cadi and up it goes again to Col de Jou: bikers dream,
is all we can say! From here we slowly lose height on the
Mountain Ridge and are wondering if the Rocks in the distance
already belong to Montserrat. A short coke stop in Solsona and on
a rather big street by our standards we speed in the direction of
Manrese. Thanks to a truck who lost part of his load on a bridge,
most of the time there is not much traffic - only bikers were
able to pass. In a little Hostal we find a tiny room, stroll
through the pedestrian precinct and to round up a beautiful day
have a brandy at the hotel bar. We must be in Spain: the glass is
well filled! And the chat with an English couple is most amusing.
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