[Leica] Nathan's PAD 14/1/2020: two old guys cycling uphill

[Nathan Wajsman]

My best friend Lars was visiting me this past week. He had been down with a bout of pneumonia, and I have my lingering rheumatoid arthritis, but that did not stop us from cycling up to the Puerto de la Carrasqueta, at 1020 meters above sea level, yesterday. Five images:

The road and the landscape:
https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-HHkS8ZB/A

6 km from the top, we stopped for a Coke break at Venta Teresa:
https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-LLPpvVW/A

Venta Teresa is popular among motorcyclists, and the proprietors have set up signs like this one:
https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-zc2zfF9/A

With good reason; I had not been up there for several months, and there were several new memorials along the road, like this one:
https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-rSPnSsv/A

There is a reason why the Guardia Civil has begun to patrol more intensively on weekend on those mountain roads.

After arriving at the top, Lars and I took the customary cheese selfies before heading back home, 35 km, mostly downhill:
https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-pTLSfHt/A


Cheers,
Nathan


Nathan Wajsman

Alicante, Spain
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