Our second big day in the saddle took us 90km in around 7 hours - significantly longer than we had ever planned to ride in a day. The day began with a spectacular mountain decent and a max speed of 63kph!!! Suitable camping ground was proving hard to find with middle Spain being so hot and dry - we would have surely snapped all tent pegs trying to pitch our two-man palace.
Patience prevailed and we were rewarded with a secret camping spot under some trees which happened to be next to a canal - the first water we had seen for over 100km. After some skinny dipping, Jose cooked our first bushtucker on our mini cooker - pasta con tomates.
We are currently in a town called Cuenca after eating up around 270 km in three days. We hit our first big climb which took us to around 1150ft above sea level - not much fun going up but coming but the beauty of a good hill is you are always rewarded with a massive descent. Cuenca is a beautiful town built into the hills and we have found an actual campsite with pool, hot showers and all the amenities any camper could hope for. We have decided to rest today and enjoy the splendors of Cuenca. We shall be hitting the road again tomorrow and hoping to make a dent in the remaining 260km to the Spanish coast.
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