Riding to Southern Spain

At the end of next week I'm going here :http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?
ll=36.846094,-3.9869073&z=15&t=h&hl=en.

I'm riding with my BIL, and we are planning on going via Paris,
Auxerre, the Millau bridge, Beziers, the Costa Brava, Barcelona,
Sitges, and the rest of the journey Iwe have yet to plan. Is ther
anywhere worthy of a bit of a detour that might be worth seeing? I do
intend going over the Pico de Velata and continuing on to Gibraltar to
get a boat over to North Africa just to say I have done it while I'm
there.

 

Well, that didn't work did it ?
The place I'm going to is called Canillas de Albaida, it's near
Malaga.

 

No no no. If you want her to appear, you have to say it three times.

Naturally, I don't, so I won't.

 

No it's not. It's in the middle of nowhere and the nearest big town is
Vélez Málaga.

 

Bypass Gibralter, it isn't worth it, honest.......

Head down the coast to Tarifa and get a ferry from there.

110euros for 2, with a day tour and lunch last year.
(Left bike on Quay side).

 

I've never particularly courted popularity, but I don't remember ever
saying to the hourdes of ukrmers that seem to flock to within spitting
distance of my house each year, that they shouldn't pop in and say hola.

 

But you never make it obvious where in Spain you live .....

Not Tarifa is it ?

 

What? like: http://tinyurl.com/cpfr9d ?

 

Drop me an email and we can try to meet up for a beer. Do you know
anywhere around the area where a friend can hire a bike for a couple
of days? we want to ride up to the Pico de Valeta and she won't have a
bike as she's flying down.

 

So, you live near Malaga ?

 

My gmail addy works (even though the spam filtering seems to be a joke
now). Let me know when you'll be visiting. Don't come now, it's pissing
down.

http://tinyurl.com/ck7ouo

 

In Málaga province. About 45 minutes inland to the north of the city.

 

All relative, innit?

 

Not been that way, Gib was the nearest I got last year.

 

About the same distance as Malaga is from Canillas de Albaida.
So not near at all, at all

 

Autoroute says 55km. But it also says that Canillas de Albaida is 123km
from my house and Málaga is 70km, so wibble I suppose.

Just looked at the route from Canillas to Vélez - 26km. Autoroute shows
it as mega-twisty, so in real life I bet it's a bastard.

 

Ta for that, I thought that might be a good idea. I am going to take
the bike over if I gi 'cos I want my 50 points fron Bike.

 

Thanks, I'll do that. We are leaving here on Sat am, I hope we should
be at Canillas de Albiada by tuesday.

 

You're riding down this weekend? Half of Spain's covered in snow!

 

http://www.windtarifa.com/viajar/algeciras-ceuta.htm