Thanks

Just wanted to say thanks to all of you who read the blog. I had fun, and I hope all of you were able to get a little taste of Spain though my experiences. Hasta pronto.

Matthew

More pics

The Guggenheim

Sunset from our apartment's rooftop in Girona

The Mediterranian

Los Pirineos

A Pyrenian switchback

Some people pics!

Home

I've made it home, look for some updates soon...

Nearing the end

So I've decided to take a break from the blog for the rest of the trip (I leave friday) and will just update it when I get home and tell you all about my reflections and put up pics and all that cool stuff. So until then you can all have one less site about visiting while your online and check back in Next sunday or so and hopefully the blog will be full of fun and exciting new things!

Week two in Girona

So after we returned from our sojourn to the Basque country we were all ready to relax for a bit and since we still had our rental car for a few more days explore the surrounding area. So that's what we did. And my dad and I rode our bikes, lots! It was a good week but nothing to earth shattering to tell you all about unfortunatly, just a day trip to the coast (which I didn'ty take part in) and then a trip up into the mountains to a small cool old town and then to another town called Banyoles where we saw a really cool old bridge, but other than that my dad and I just biked, slept, and ate, and all was good.

Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco

So Monday morning was our last in San Sebastian and we spent the morning walking to the top of the hill neaer the beaches and were treated to an amazing view. We then headed off to try to find the last climb on of the first stage of teh vuelta ciclista al pais vasco or tour of the basque country. It was amazing the coincidental events that happened to be going on in the San Sebastian area while we where there and everyone thought this would be a good one to check out. I guess it was meant to be becuase we acidentaly stumbled upon the course and were able to stake out a spot on the final cat. 2 climb before the decent into the finish about an hour before the riders where expected to arrive. Unfotunatly it was raining, but spirits where high, its not everday I get to see my favorite riders in action. So there we were as first a rider from a spanish continental team went by off the front with a small gap followed by a lead group led by Saunier Duval and we could see Tour winner Alberto Contadoe and Cadel Evans near the front. The power is absolutely amazing and those were the only 2 I could identify before they were gone, and this was on a big climb! We were then able to watch the slower groups come through getting a great look at American Chris Horner and Luxembourger Frank Schleck (at least thats what we thought and yelled at the time, however upon reading some articles after it was actually his brother Andy, hopefully we aren't the first to make this mistake). So it was just to cool, what a trip this has been! We then headed back across Spain to our "home" in Girona. So I'm starting to catch you all up here, the most recent news is that I met Myles at the airport today (he is now asleep and trying to dejetlag) so its shaping up to be a fun last 10 days with trips planned to Barcelona and out to the coast. Hope to keep you all posted!