Day 20 - Puente Genil to Olvera

As the morning alarm blasted around the room, stomachs dropped as we now realised that we were only 2 days away from arriving at our destination conceived over 9 months ago. We have many fascinating stories, life changing experiences and have managed to cycle across three countries, soon to be four, to arrive at our final destination in Morocco.



Day 20 again provided many stories, experiences and most importantly plenty of laughs and giggles. Over the last two weeks we have settled into some pretty rigid arrangements. 6 o'clock alarms, various steps followed in the morning, lunch at 12:30 and only 5 units of alcohol per evening!!! However, today was slightly altered. A 6:02 am alarm followed by a slightly smaller breakfast. This meant we stopped in 20km time for cereal and refreshments. This ensured the thunder train never ran out of energy. Another new dish was added to the lunch menu. Today Julian provide a feast of bacon sandwiches, much to the boys delight.



The bacon sarnies were certainly good, however, today had some brilliant highlights. Marcus yet again fell off at slow speeds by crashing into Fred's wheel. Our guest rider Paul lost his interestingly styled sunglasses and Rob took the reigns on the spare Garmin to lead the navigation.



On the topic of navigation, we climbed for a single km out of the cereal stop, on what was described as a "crappy road." At the top of this road we seemed to take what was almost a u turn back down a sweeping left to right decent. As the two navigators turned back to check where the peloton was, we noticed that Marcus and the ever growing in cockiness guest rider Paul had remained at the top of the hill, assuming it was a wrong turn. As Paul and Marcus arrived at the bottom of the hill, Fred turned to Paul and apologised that we should of intact continued along that road and not taken the u-turn. Paul then picked up his toys and firmly tossed them out of the pram. Only to Fred's amusement he then told him that infact we were on the correct path!!!



The days riding was hilly and again hot, but we arrived at our overnight campsite and took to the local pub. On arrival into this pub we noticed a very impressive selection of bottled beers stored above the bar. On further conversation we established that the barmen had over 500 bottled beers from almost every country around the world (except Wales!!!)



An early night has been proposed tonight as tomorrow we start our 95 mile assault onto Gibraltar.

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