Hola from Castello d'Empuries in the Alt Emporda region of Catalonia. Just completed a 40 km loopthrough vineyards and medievel towns and am now enjoyinf a cerveza at the hotel Canet. Our bicycles are safely tucked away in the wine storage room of this hotel. This is my first blog entry even though we have been in Spain for over ten days. This partly due to iffy wifi connections, lack of time, and too many other more pressing matters to attend to like eating the great local food and sampling the wonderful spanish wines. Rather than bore you and me recounting every stop and route we have been on since we arrived, I will just touch on a few highlites so far. First of all, they don't speak Spanish here, they speak catalunyan, vaguely similar to
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