Caudiel & The Via Verde Ojos Negros

We were up and ready to move by 9am and today I decided to skip a couple of planned locations.
Our first stop should have been the remains of a castle and a short hike along some old Roman aqueducts on the way to the fortified town of Albarracin but checking google we’d have had to pay to enter the citadel and then had to pay again to enter the church which is the main attraction. Also we couldn’t sleep at Albarracin so we’d have had to find somewhere to camp.
After that we should have been heading to Teruel which is our closest city but that was just to look around so we skipped that and headed further down to the next spot on the list Caudiel.
After filling up with LPG, diesel and fresh water at a lovely free Motorhome area in Teruel we got to Caudiel at 1:30pm after a 150 mile drive.
We are here because this place sits right in the middle of the Via Verde Ojos Negros a cycle greenway that covers 200km from the coast at Valencia right upto Zarragozza. It is a mega cycle route and I’ve already done large sections of it.
After lunch I took the bike out and headed downhill towards Valencia for 20km, then turned around and came back which took 90 minutes.
This via verde actually has a gradient running from 2% to 4% all the way from the coast inland and tomorrow I’m going to cycle uphill for 50km before turning around and heading back.Leggi altro