Where oh where has my Internet gone? Our current accommodation doesn’t have Internet access, and while it is not a necessity, it’s my opinion that it can certainly be useful while on vacation (weather, restaurants, bike rental information, bike/hike route planning, etc.) I think I will add greater priority to Internet access for accommodation on future trips, except of course to countries where I know that is asking a bit much.

After a couple days of wandering around Girona without a whole lot of direction I feel like we are making some headway in terms of settling in, aside from an annoying cold that I have managed to pick up. During some of our downtime over the past couple days, we have noticed that there is some quality programming on the tube here, namely lots of 80’s re-runs (A-Team, Miami Vice, Knight Rider, etc.) as well as Michelle’s favourite, “Medicopter”, a cheesy soap style show based on a helicopter rescue crew in the Pyrenees or the Alps. Interestingly there is also a preponderance of infomercials for vibratory weight-loss devices.

Today we were able to sort out some rental road bikes and went out for a short ride west of town this afternoon. In picking up the bikes we may have found potential accommodation should we ever end up back in Girona. Hotel Historic, seems like a good spot in the heart of old Girona. The guy who helped us with the bikes was happy to tell us all about the professional cyclists who live in Girona including Michael Barry, David Millar, and others. Click here to view GPS map and ride data from our ride.

Anyway, here is a map and a few photos from our lovely ride in the Spanish countryside west of Girona today.

Our bike ride route. Click the image to see the GPS map and data on the Garmin website.

Heading uphill towards Adri on our ride west of Girona. The weather was great again today; 26 Celsius I think.

More uphill while riding through some shrubbery/forest west of Girona.

There were a number of churches in the countryside, all were charming.

Ahhhh, riding in the Spanish countryside... it was good aside from the occasional agricultural smells.

I think this buiding was mostly a barn with some residential space. Not long after this we turned south and headed mostly downhill back to Girona through St. Gregori.

Not my best self-photo, but could be worse.

Yummmm! Nescafe, my favourite and your's too I'm sure.