Today we’re in Motril.

I should say tonight we’re spending the night in Motril.

We left Nerja bright and early and made good progress.

We are using an app called Komoot to help plan our rides. Sometimes the directions are weird and we end up in odd places. For example today we followed the directions and komoot took us all through a busy little town and then back up into the road again. I’m not sure why.

It was kinda interesting to see the town however, there was some stress and horn beeping as we tried to find our way through the crowded streets.

There was a tunnel, 650m, Komoot had rerouted us approximately 4 kilometres around the tunnel. Not sure why.

As we approached the tunnel i saw a man coming out through walking his scooter. I asked, if bicicletta okay and pointed at the tunnel.

Si, he said. Bici okay. His scooter had run out of battery and that’s why he was walking his scooter.

Just as we were swinging our leg over our bikes a cyclist came out of the tunnel.

So we were okay.

As i say, “If you want the view you have to do the climb.”

As we turned the corner and climbed the hill we had a perfect view where we had our lunch.

There was a beautiful beach and we sat in the shade to have cheese and salami sandwiches. .

Can you see the mountain goat in that picture. The road was full of them. Three about the size of a small deer, crossed right in front of me and clambered up the rocky slope without missing a beat. They hopped the guide rail and trotted up the side of the cliff. We saw several more along the road and they did not seem perturbed by us.

Beautiful vista of the Mediterranean

Remnants of a Roman aqueduct