{"id":4192,"date":"2012-06-09T20:25:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T00:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2015-07-02T15:07:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T19:07:18","slug":"day-14-saturday-june-8-tarifa-to-la-linea-de-gibraltar-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=4192","title":{"rendered":"Day 14, Saturday, June 8 – Tarifa to La Linea de Gibraltar, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a cool (65 degree) morning as we pedaled out of Tarifa on cobblestone streets that led straight up<\/strong> \"\"<\/a>and up and up<\/em>: note the wind generators poking through the clouds.\"\"<\/a> At the one mile point there was an almost<\/em> flat spot where we stopped to take a breath and a picture. \u00a0\"\"<\/a>The climbing continued for another four<\/strong><\/em> miles. \u00a0It was slow going, but atfter an hour we reached the top of our five mile climb.\u00a0\u00a0It was a beautiful view of where the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic and Africa in the distance,<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> but a bit discouraging that we could almost see where he had just come from; it was not going to be a day with a lot of mileage. \u00a0We continued to climb, nothing like our first five miles, but still up and the scenery was still as fabulous.\"\"<\/a>In Algeciras we caught our first glimpse of the Rock of Gibraltar in the distance,\u00a0\"\"<\/a>We reached the British Territory of Gibraltar just before noon,<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>along with a gazillon people coming in for the weekend. \u00a0We stopped for lunch\"\"<\/a>then biked across the border \"\"<\/a>and the airport runway (literally) \"\"<\/a>through the gates\"\"<\/a>and into the city and a sea of people.\"\"<\/a> The rock is<\/strong> impressive!\"\"<\/a>We spent a couple of hours riding around and taking way too many pictures of the Rock,<\/p>\n

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>then made our way to a hotel on the\u00a0other<\/em> side of the border (back into Spain) around the corner from this beautiful church\"\"<\/a>and charming square.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Wish we had pictures to show you, but we were sitting in this square having a refreshment around 5:30 and women dressed to the nines were coming out of the woodwork, to go to church<\/em>. \u00a0Now this is why we could not take any pictures, everyone of them wore a minimum of a 4-inch spiked heels and a very tight dress, some even with sequins. \u00a0Thought maybe it was a special occasion, wedding, something other than a Saturday night Catholic service, but it was not. \u00a0Best we could do was picture of the inside.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We managed to catch dinner in between the people watching and stopped for blueberry cheesecake on the way back to our bed for the night.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We realize this is not a very good picture of the dessert, but our waitress really wanted us to take this picture, so we felt obligated to post it. \u00a0Though the town is just coming alive after 9 pm, we are just going to bed. \u00a0Rumor has it that it is a long mountainous ride tomorrow and after cheating today at 35 miles, we are due.\n\t\t