If there ever was a competition as to how much you can fit into a day, I think we won today. We began the day with a bit of exercise. Up early, Courtney and I went for a ride along the famous Costa Brava coast road, from Tossa de Mar up to Sant Feliu de Guixols, a 40km return trip, with over 700m of climbing, up and down and around and around some of the most spectacular coastal scenery imaginable and overlooking the emerald expanse of the Mediterranean Ocean. ...

Enjoying our first real sleep in of the holiday today, most of us rose at a leisurely 9am, though Wendy struggled with the fold out bed and didn't sleep much at all. Fingers crossed tonight she'll catch up as well. Having stocked up on brekky stuff the night before, we grazed on that then headed into town, the plan being to catch a boat along the Costa Brava, followed by a walk of approximately 6km back along it and into Tossa De Mar. The weather was hot...

Saying goodbye to the country of Andorra was hard. It's such a beautiful place nestled in the Pyrenees. La Massana, our home for the week which sits at about 1300m above sea level, has a uniform appearance to it, as do all of the towns in this tiny little country. On the pecking order of tiny European countries Andorra sits in approximately 5th place, sitting behind Vatican City, Monaco, San Marino, Leichtenstein and Malta. All of its buildings are clad in th...

(Despite what the title might say, we were definitely in Andorra again today, our last day of riding the Pyrenees). We faced today with a sense of mixed feelings. Knowing it was our last day on the bike in Andorra was a little sad, but by the same token we were all extremely tired from all the challenging riding we'd been doing and a rest was probably overdue. Personally as in Chamonix two years earlier, I was a tad more apprehensive about today knowing we'd c...

More technical challenges off the side of a mountain awaited us today. As always Courtney and Mitchell would lead the way, swathing a path down incredibly steep terrain, around tight switchbacks, over big rocks, rutted paths and rooty trails. We began our adventures today at Col d'Aldino sitting at approximately 1980m above sea level. We followed a trail called OCD, which took in as many technical features as you could imagine in a natural trail, which is es...