Vuelta España Stage Three

When we were Andorra last month we decided we wanted to do a walk in our customary fashion: take a gondola and chairlift ride to the top of a mountain and walk down. We were defeated by the weather - it was foggy, windy, and threatening to rain.

Having driven to the base of the gondola we decided to ride the first step of our walk. Luckily, when we arrived at the top of the ride the weather wasn't too wild and there was a veritable garden of wildflowers for Susan to explore.

What we didn't realise is that we had arrived at the finish of this coming Monday's stage of the Vuelta España. (Stage three, 28/8)

What is even more remarkable is that, purely by chance, on our way back to our apartment we drove (in reverse) the last 36km of the stage.

The cyclists will travel up these roads to the Coll d'Ordino

 

down the other side to the town of Ordino, and up the valley

and up the hill to the finish at Arinsal