A Fistful of €uros

2019 sees the Wild Hogs, Woody and Grizzly, embark on another marathon tour. After the cold snowy mountains of Norway in the north, they now take on the hot dusty plains in the south, touring the Iberian peninsula. They’ll come together to begin their journey in Portsmouth, sailing to Bilbao, before spending around 30 days trekking through Spain, Portugal and into the Pyrenees of Andorra and France, before returning to Bilbao and Portsmouth. It's an epic journey totalling some 4250 road miles.

Monday, 17 June 2019

Geres

Arrived at our hotel, up in the Portugese mountains.

We stopped in Braga en route to take some snaps of the old cathedral. We did well to find bike size parking spots, either side of a zebra crossing.

Ride from Braga was twisty and surprising. Surprising in so much as, we came around a bend to be confronted with a superb vista of a lake down in the valley. Very nice. Our hotel is slightly up the other side.

The hotel has a decent view from the front, shame then that our room looks out on the building next door.

The view from the room

I'm not sure the hotel had our booking. The girl on reception speaks no English and seemed unable to find me in the book. I showed her the booking.com confirmation (printed in Portugese) and that seemed to do the trick. It is costing us €32.50 for the night, including brekkie. What a bargain. We even have covered parking for the bikes.

Time to suss out the area/bar. 😉