In Rome

Sadly, for all those people who want me buried like the stones in the Roman forum I am still alive. ;)

We just think blogger interface isn't quite fresh for us and facebook was, it's and it will be intrusive and pathetic.

We were thinking in something big "a la evaseè" but we really are not in the mood and to tell you the truth we have not so many cool things to share.

The City that Never Sleeps

It could be Citibank, but it's not. How great it has been to be in my home city again, where I was born 9 years ago...

A lot of changes during this time, but it's still "my city"

Tometaro Jr. and Father Bunny climbed "Turo de L'Home"

With only one day left in Barcelona and fearing a whole month without extreme adventures both Tometaro and my father decided, just like if you think it's chocolate ice cream time to ride up to Turo de L'Home mountain.

Located in Montseny Massif is one of the highest mountains at 1712 meters. Well known by cyclist and sport freaks from Catalonia its classical climb starts at Sant Celoni and last for approximately 26 kilometers.

It's one of the hardest mountain passes in Catalonia and also in Spain with a difficulty grade of 299 (www.altimetrias.net)

They spent 1:54 minutes in a non stop climb from Sant Celoni to the summit where they took some pictures. 

The last 6 kilometers are very hard, not only because of the gradient but the road condition. The surface is uneven, plenty of holes and cracks with loose stones than makes the bike to lose traction and fear of a flat tyre is a constant feeling in your head.

Father bunny was forced to use the 50 x 25 combination a couple of times and for real the are a pair of slopes that due to gradient and road conditions are not easy with 52/53 x 25.

Almost 75 % of the climb HR was over 80% of MAX Hr. So they took the ride seriously. 

And to confirm they're are great morons, temperature was around 33 Celsius, no other cyclist were on the road (nor climbing or descending it) and only three cars and two cows were around. 

From Cuba, part 1.

Sometimes you don't realize how important a place is for you... we did not like the place so much but we learnt some lessons from there.


Amazingly, they have a Chinese city in Havana (well a tiny one).