Off the beaten track in Catalonia

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Recently my family and I went off to Catalonia on holiday as a celebration of my wife's and my own 60th birthdays, while there I had some fun on the untarmacked roads over the hills. We were at a small town called Alos de balaguer in the region of Lleida about 100km west of Barcelona, hang, the town was so small it did not have a shop or even a bakery

Some of the tracks we followed projected on to Google Earth:



I was tasked as sweeper for my brother in law and eldest son when they went off on a 125km morning cycle run, at one point they reached an altitude of a little over 2000m, I have some video of this which I've still to download from the camera.


Tarmac roads at 1500m up in the hills looking for the lads on the bikes



All in all I spent a lot of time ferrying the kids up and down the hills, dropping them off for them to walk back, even to having to rescue some of the grand kids after they got under cooled canoeing in the river when the temperature dropped from a balmy 38c to a chilly 14c when the heavens opened and dropped a ton of rain on us.

I went off to go look for a chapel of Sant Jordi (St George) on top of a cliff,





Chapel of St. George