Manzanares

The forecast is something I look at most mornings when travelling and today it said a storm is coming from the west and rain will arrive in Barcelona mid morning so by 8am I was on the road. It was cloudy and just a few specks of rain came.
As I left Barcelona the sky darkened so I stopped and took my phone out of its cradle on the bars and put it in my inside pocket. At first it didn't rain and I thought myself lucky but after about half an hour it darkened again and this time it did rain so without stopping I zipped closed all the vents on my jacket as the temperature dropped by 4 to 20c. I continued until the sky became black and the rain started from nothing to heavy within seconds so I stopped under a bridge to put on a thin waterproof jacket made for hikers over the top of everything. Soon after that it poured down so heavily I couldn't see much ahead.
It stopped as I turned inland after Valencia
Next the temperature began to rise from 19 at the lowest to 31c. Eventually it remained stable at about 24c
Tonight I'm staying in a 13th century castle. It is charming and cheap. Tomorrow I'll decide what to do in the morning as the forecast is not good.
My bike is inside the castle behind the big wooden doors in the photo.
I went to church and prayed for good weather tomorrow. See shall see.Read more