Alcoy

Crazy day! Getting to know Maset del Potro :D

We woke up early to take care of the animals. There is a really beautiful donkey and some chickens of a local specie almost extinct (as someone told me...eheh),
After we packed the bread and brought it down to the car and Jordi spreed them in the city :p.. normally, Candela, the donkey, helps to bring the bread from El Potro to the car, this time was not needed (other 4 monkeys did it :p...)
I washed all the dishes and bread material and then Marta, Jahlilah and me stayed in the house talking and relaxing...

Roget e baqueta :)

vultures in the sky

i després del petroli què?

At noon I join an incredible party in Pablo's House, a house near (300 m) to el potro, also with not much access... there we had a tribal carnival ritual to celebrate lent... really nice night to get to know a little bit my inside and dream... we were 10 and i barely knew them, but the night was really special, we played instruments all night, sing and had fun... In the end I decided to lent tobacco...no smoking for 42 days (the moon cycle, this carnival was new moon and the cleanse finish in two full moons)

Elche -> Alcoy

I got out early to find the green path to Alcoy... there were no signs and I got in strange paths lots of time... Any way the path was really beautiful and i arrived in Alcoy around 18:00.

how caterpillars walk the street?

I met Marta there and we walked (carrying the bicycle) to El Potro, a project in Barranc del Cint a small path between two mountains, no car access (by trecking bike is also REALLY hard to get there).

Arriving there was like entering in a fairy tale, lots of nature and a beautiful old house with water...

Every week in El Potro they produce organic traditionally made whole bread and I arrived in the middle of the process, still helped to put them in the oven... really nice experience to share with Marta, Jordi, Jahlilah and Alfred

Alicante -> Elche

After another night in Alan's house, Marta brought me and Matias back to Elche...

While waiting for Mabel in order to enter the house I stayed in Matias's house watching movies, a great one called Libertarias about the spanish anarchist revolution seen by the women perspective...

Later we went back to the park and I packed my things and made a goodbye dinner in Mabel's house ;)

Alicante

We stayed in the house till late and then we met Alan in el Ring where he would play (a punk matinée)
Later we join the crowd in the streets in a crazy party...

Elche -> Alicante

Me and Mabel went to Alicante by train to meet some friends in Carnival Parade...

Alan and his micro-skate

We dressed up silly and join the parade...
Later there was a funny concert and after I end up sleeping in Alan and Patricia's house with Matias and his brother

Elche

Another day wandering in Elche...

marta and preta :D

Elche

Like yesterday, a nice breakfast outside, under the bright sun :D
Then I went to cycle around Elche and repaired my bike...
At noon we went to the park...

Elche

All day cycling around elche to find some screws to install a front rack in my bike...
The city is really beautiful with lots of palm trees...like an oasis ;)...

Lyon -> Elche

We arrived Alicante around 11:00 in the moorning and he left me in the university, i then hitchike to the center and met Javi at his parents house, I finally got my bike again :D..
I packed the bike and cycled to Elche to meet Mabel, nice to see this wonderful sun again :D... it's like being in the tropics, comparing to amsterdam...
Then we went to the park till late where Mabel and her friends were juggling ;)

Amsterdam -> Lyon

We woke up early and hitchhiked to Rotterdam, we walk a little there and caught the train to Roosendaal, where I would meet my lift...
At 17:00, Harry arrived and we start the trip directly to Alicante, 15 hours total, we stoped few times in the way and talked a lot, he is a funny guy who already traveled a lot by bike with his wife :)... maybe I'll visit him again here in Spain.