Or, as you did, “shoot the camera”..:)

Thank you. Dodie likes bigger birds, closer up, because with her point and shoot camera that is all she can get photos of.

But not the both of you sitting atop the ledge ! ;)

I'm not a birder in the true sense, but I am a huge fan of HUGE birds--eagles, ospreys, hawks, vultures, condors, geese, cranes, herons, emus, ostriches. Penguins are pretty cool too. Anyway, I really like this picture.

Yes, I remember now! I just came from looking at the steep marble stairs to get our bikes down this morning. Wish me luck.

Good call. Avoid escalators with loaded bikes would be my recommendation based on personal experience. I may have been the one relating a story of a friend who had a major spill with a loaded ebike going up an escalator - fortunately he did live to ride again!

We hope he makes it to the end of March. He has always had a bad or missing lung.

Now the Jubilee year cathedrals are praying for the Pope..

Think it might be a different place. Electric assist should smooth out the undulations.

Yeah, we usually have some sort of strap/bungee but this time did not.

At the hospedaria? Great place to stay, should be a great day ahead all the way around. There are a few steep dips and rises, but nothing too significant.

I always throw a bungee cord around our bikes- there’s usually something to hook them to- never failed yet.

We are not exactly following the Silver Route, just loosely, so Montfrague seemed an obvious slight detour, especially after reading your blog entry for that day. We are staying in (near) Torrejon El Rubio in the only available accommodation found when we made our reservations. Keen anticipation here.

Monfrague!! That’s so wonderful. Does the Silver Route go that way, or are you just bird-brained now? And where are you staying tomorrow night?

We do try to avoid, or at least minimize, trains but the only way to get us and our bikes to where we wanted to be was this.