With bikes packed and appartment cleaned we farewelled Kim on her way to Santorini Greece no doubt to recover from her near nervous breakdown from having to drive the team "bus" in France while Kev and I headed off for our next leg to Milan.
Arrival at Barcelona airport brought a few challenges and interesting sites a) finding our terminal b) Henley trying to steal a workers trolley to transport the bike boxes c)me panicking because I couldn't find our flight listed thinking I'd done a Viv before realising I'd got the flight time wrong
d) Henley spending 1/2 hour taking on a coke machine that wasn't co-operating
While our flight was uneventful getting our bikes to our hotel was not! We'd officially listed our bikes as missing after waiting for a good 30mins - when asked to describe them we just said "bloody big" cardboard boxes!
They turned up eventually at the entrance to the baggage terminal - apparently flying a low cost airline means as long as throw your bags anywhere that means we've delivered!
After KH spent an age trying to work out how to get his 1 euro back from his returned airport trolley we bordered an bus towards our airpot hotel getting off one stop too late and faced with a 500 metre carry of boxes and luggage back - "stuff that " Henley so we caught the bus back one stop the other way and this time ended up with only a 300 metre carry- by the time I arrived at the hotel I looked back to see Kev still arguing with his bike box so I went back to help.
Pretty tired we soon set about finding food and with little open we settled on a restaurant at s nearby hotel which easily succeeded in achieving our worst meal on trip so far - KH's spaghetti bolognaise included a small mound of spaghetti with a tiny topping of tomato based source that wouldn't have fed a mouse!
Back to the hotel it was crash time hoping that the seemingly hundreds of planes landing and taking off would take notice of our hotels blinking red lights and continue to fly over rather than through us!
We're finally in Italy and our challenge will be how to get out if the damned airport as we have no local maps .... one to sleep on !!!
8,000 Km's in 3 months cycling across UK and Europe ! In July the Tibetan hardened duo ride from Lands End on this "boys own" epic. After cycling UK's best Kev & Mike go on to Europe to cycle from Berchtesgaden (Bavaria) to Amboise in France meeting fellow Warby's Viv & Linton and Mike's sister Kim for an incredible Journey to Barcelona. The epic ends with a spectacular climb over the Alps and a cycle through Switzerland and along the fabulous Rhine!
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