Haha…Strava congratulated me on my longest ride ever!! (…just nice to have the complete picture!)
The original Sardinia plan had been two days up to Bosa for a rest day there before continuing on to Porto Torres. But with two long ferry-ride rest-days either end of our Sardinia ride…we had opted to ride for all four days (and explore the South West corner of the island…Buggerru!).
But four days in extreme heat had taken its toll I think…and Alan was well Buggered. Bugger Me!
So a full day of enforced rest on the ferry was a welcome reprieve!
An early start though as alarms were set for 5am….to give us waking-up…and cafe-breakfast time before check-in….for our 7.15am departure.
We needn’t have hurried…for the ferry only pulled in at around 7.15 (en route from Civitavecchia)…so our long ferry day had just got at least an hour longer!! (Interesting to watch how over 400 cars and trucks can be unloaded and loaded up again…all within an hour!)
Another Grimaldi ferry. Not as nice as our Palermo/Cagliari boat…. We did have a chuckle at Grimaldi’s proud line about in-port emissions!!
Swimming pool closed.
Cabin just as good though…so we both had a bolt-hole for chilling, reading, sleeping in between wandering, snacking, smoking.
A long day though…pulling into Barcelona 90 minutes late at around 9.30pm…ready for an 8km dash to find our accommodation in the fast-fading light!
Indeed just as we left the port, a policemen on a big motorbike pulled alongside me, and told me to switch on my back light. I had one! He had just ridden past Alan without slowing…for Alan did not have one, so nothing to ask him to turn on! Haha.
It was a hectic ride…through a busy Barcelona on a Friday night….but map memory worked for most of it..and we were into the apartment by around 10.15.
Beer time…at a thankfully very close neighbourhood cafe! Kitchen was closed but they still managed to come up with a plateful of delicious salamis, cheese and tomoto’ed bread!!
Thanked them in Italian!
