short notice pico's and pyrenees spare place

Looking forward to the rest, I have a feeling it'll be worth the wait

[punyXpress]

You certainly had a good'un there Mark & Stu
$ummer about the smoking though - that was the only way I could keep in the same parish as you up in Scotland last year.

I live rather close to all the places you've been visiting!

Glad you enjoyed the roads and I'm also glad it seems you have had quite a good time (and good weather too)!

Mark and Stu

Good to know you're both back safely.

Photos are great! Looks like a fantastic trip.

I'd love to do a Euro trip, without being pillion, but the thought of it gives me the heebie jeebies.

Mark, when are you next out and about.

Some videos of day 2 and day 3 in the picos de europa

the low cam was playing up a lot so the clips are a bit sporadic, the camera then refused to work at all on day 4 and refused for the rest of the trip, however i had a backup camera called the Sneck cam of which you will see some footage later.

anyway here are a few vid clips of various bits of the picos, some with a fly on the lens and some with rain on the lens





More to come S L O W to upload

Originally Posted by melody

Mark and Stu

Good to know you're both back safely.

Photos are great! Looks like a fantastic trip.

I'd love to do a Euro trip, without being pillion, but the thought of it gives me the heebie jeebies.

Mark, when are you next out and about.

im off fri sat sun this week so will see what the weather is like

and there are hundreds more photo's and video's to come

were only on day 3 of 10

Day Four

this day begins with a hearty breakfast, as we are about to cover some 420 miles to the middle of the pyrenees.



Todays Route



the route was to change later in the day though

this route sees us blasting some sections in northern spain round past bilbao until we start on the decent roads across past pampalona, some of which are now being upgraded to dual cariagway or just straight A roads (thats a pity really as the older roads were twistier)

anyway we stopped for a bite to eat near Yesa, then the trip started to get interesting ,n o more boring roads just sublime tarmac and fantastic scenery



first peek of the real mountains



we are still on the spanish side passing lakes



and ruins



and strange cities on hills




Then after the spanish side we climb up this pass, the A136 out of spain to the D934 in france (looking back towards Spain from the top) portalet d' aneu



more coffee at the top




then we decend down into one of the most picturesque valleys and get some awesome views





Pretty much awe inspiring (Ehh Stuart )



had everone on their knees taking pictures



Anyway moving on now we are heading on some sublime roads towards our hotel for the night in pierefitte nestales and we have to use some passes to get there (shortest route) we are having a great time and start the climb from eaux bonnes to col de aubisque (part of the tour de france route) now as we climb we start to hit some mist and reaching the summit we see these.



of course this means .........





and we find the pass closed from this point



what do we do ??

amend the sign thats what



now we have to endure the road back down (BIG GRIN , Tis a really hard life touring) we then work out an alternate route to our hotel via some more scenery



and we arrive here rather late in the day



as we head for some food its getting cloudier



belgian beer in France



french bier with the food (homemade pizzas that were gorgeous) then deserts again






then off to bed again for ZZZZZZ

[dizzyblonde]

Now I know Stu is quite a shortass, but I think he can safely add these to the list of bikes he'd need to lower

Great write up, pics, glad you all had a great time Not jealous me!

Day 4 Video's

out of spain up to portalet D' Aneu



more later SLOW uploading



into france down the portalet D' Aneu