Route: Molina de Aragon -Checa – Orihuela del Tremedal. – Teruel – Sagunto – Valencia
This trip will be remembered as a rainy and cloudy one, almost from the start weeks ago, till now towards the end. It wasn’t raining, entering Molina de Aragon, but can’t say it was nice, balmy weather either, which you would expect this time of year. I passed through this place once before in 2016, on my off-road trip from Hondarribia at the Atlantic in the north of Spain, to Cartegana at the Mediterranean in the south of the country. All about that trip here.
Upon leaving Molina de Aragon, it started raining again. Now to a point I start to get fed up by it. But, we can only continue.
So cycling I do, but it is actually just passing by places. There are spectacular viewpoints like Megina, or the impressive rock formations near Chequilla, all that with beautiful autumn colors…. if only there would be a blue sky.
There’s a small shop in Checa, where I can buy some provisions again. I eat them at the bench at the town’s entrance. Crossing into Teruel province, I may change province, but not weather.
It was about time to discover Teruel now, the city I bypassed six weeks ago. Main characteristic for me were the red brick towers in town. There’s a very lively square and also the largest Irish pub in the world dedicated to the band U2 where I enjoyed a few lovely pints of Guinness.
From Teruel, it was basically the same way back as I came towards Sagunto on the Via Verde de Ojos Negros. Only this time going slowly down. Getting closer to the coast, the weather finally got better, and temperatures were rising again.
I found a nice last camping spot before the ride into Sagunto, where I booked a hotel. Had a short look at the beach over here before riding back toValencia the next day from where I took a train back home.
So that was it, after 6 weeks and 2.800 km I’m back home, planning future adventures.
Bike-A-Way 
Hi Koen, the surroundings look good enough, some spots are very beautiful but I can hear through every sentence that the cold and rain and clouds are bothering you. It almost sounds like you had no choice, as if someone forced you to go (hahahahaha!) But I agree that such weather can make or break a trip.
The clocktower is a pearl. Imagine that without all the other buildings around it!
We have the same straps from De Kampeerder!
Will you drink the beer inside the pub? I can not imagine you do.
Greetings Cindy
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No, no, nobody forces me.
Being on a bike trip in bad weather is still a much better life than sitting in an office under artificial light while the sun is shining outside 🙂
Where did you see my ‘De Kampeerder’ Straps ? 😀
I always carry them with, they come in handy once in a while.
Of course I drank the beer in the Irish pub in Teruel.
I found again an Irish pub in Albacete last week, so had to go in. Love Irish pubs.
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I saw the straps on the header photo, recognized them immediately! I think I went into an outdoor shop for the first time in my life when I started Interrail travel with a friend. That shop was de Kampeerder.
Are pubs not too loud for you? Geo likes Irish pubs too. I not. I won’t go in : )
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