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.

Wednesday 3 July 2019

Zaragoza

Riding day today. No stops, apart from fuel and lunch. We did pass through some nice towns on the way but it's not easy to find the time to stop ad-hoc, when you have a couple of hundred miles to cover.

We had the usual wrong turns, caused by bloody roadworks and a few near misses. One from a bird that was nearly hit by a truck and in taking avoiding action just missed me, another when some clown was overtaking a lorry and I had to brake and swerve to avoid him in my lane and finally, when a woman nearly pulled out in front of me, again necessitating the use of the brake.

We arrived in Zaragoza just after 3pm. It is 35 or so. Hogs' own Michael Fish said we would hit a thunderstorm. Did we bollix!

We are here for 2 nights, so tomorrow is sightseeing day. A bit of research required.