Friday, June 25th

The only things we needed to do today was get back to Barcelona to return the bikes, and make it to the airport in time for our flights to Amsterdam.  We got briefly lost in the underground parking garage before heading out into the hot Spanish sun for the ride to our only stop for the day, Cardona castle.


No exciting roads today, just a rather hot and dull ride to Cardona.  We walked around the castle for a little while, and then back to the hot and dull riding.


When we got back to Barcelona the breeze coming off the Med was wonderful – would have loved to park the bike and jump into the water for while right then.

The bike return was handled very professionally, with the staff going over every item on the checklist they had filled out on our departure.  My gear was given a thorough inspection as well.  This was quite different than our experience with Hermann at Moto Mader, where we basically just tossed him the keys and unpacked our stuff.

They had tried to call us a cab once we got the all-clear, but there was some issue so we had to drag our luggage a couple blocks towards the beach to a nearby hotel where there was a cab stand.   We made it to the airport in plenty of time to hit the lounge and relax and shower before our flights to Holland.

All in, we put 1,900 kilometers on our trio of F700GS’s.  I’ll post up a ‘final thoughts’ soon, and of course a write-up of our experience at the MotoGP at Assen.