A typical day starts at 10am when we meet you at the hotel where the bikes are stored overnight for you. After a few kilometres on the tarmac we veer off onto the trails.
To give a flavour of the Spanish offroad trails, on Day One the first few kilometres offroad consists of a half-hour loop around a section of Europe's largest windfarm and we then can make any adjustments to your bike's handlebars and levers that are needed. Next we head onwards on to some slightly more challenging trails and then approach the River Ebro crossing leading into the casteller village of Miravet where we stop for a three-course lunch. After a well-earned rest we are back on the trails for the afternoon exploring the Cor d'Ebre mountains, where the endgame of the Spanish Civil War was played out. We return along the varied trails of the Burga valley crossing the ridges of Cabra Feixet mountain, ending with a spectacular view of the vast Ebro delta where the river meets the sea with, in the distance, your hotel by the beach. We return to base around 6pm.
On other days the trailbike tours might be through winegrowing slate-fields high in the Priorat mountains with their sawtooth ranges, or the more demanding Ports National Park route through the rocky pine forest with superb views and peaks, eventually leaving Catalunya and entering the Spanish province of Aragon. We visit sleepy villages like Horta Sant Joan, the birthplace of Picasso and one of the most interesting places architecturally in the region. On the long-distance and challenging Ports National Park route we usually stop for a swim after lunch in a high mountain lake, the perfect way to cool down before the long ride back to your hotel.
