The main focus of the morning was bike maintenance and fitting new inner tubes, tyres, brakes, brake cables and an additional water bottle holder, which I purchased from a Decathlon store nearby. The new tyres improved the handling of the bike, especially off road.

Luckily the latest checkout time of the campsite was at 5pm rather than the more usual 12pm which gave plenty of time to fit the new parts and pack everything up. I filled up the water bottles with ice and mineral water then at around 2.30pm when I left, the flags of the campsite were pointing in the direction that I was heading – west.

There were plastic covered greenhouses built on much of the landscape that I passed through, and most of the space between the hills and the sea was filled with them. Some new ones were being constructed as I cycled passed, and occasionally there were open water pools, presumably for irrigation. The hills on the right throughout the afternoon were looking more and more like mountains.

In the last stages of the ride, when cycling passed the greenhouses you could feel the heat radiating out them. I stopped at a campsite just east of Adra, which was only a few hundred metres from the sea.

Distance: 26 miles

Maximum temperature: 32 degrees C

Beach near Adra