The 2 things most often viewed from the roads of Spain are 'Coto Privado de Caza' (Private Hunting) signs which are seemingly nailed to every tree and fence post (more later) and the milepost. No road seems to be without them and the attention to their accuracy seems obsessive. We travelled along a mountain road where recent roadworks had straightened out some of the bends. As a result the road was shortened by a few metres and so to retain accuracy the old stone posts had been usurped by aluminium Km signs placed as much as 5 metres away. In an act of civic vandalism the old posts had been painted over and their numerical indentations filled with cement. For a cyclist life is so much more enjoyable when you forget about distance and just enjoy the environment. In India I once realised with horror that the small posts between the mile stones were 1/10th mile marks. This was on a road where the posts were counting down to Madras which was still many hundreds of miles away. Having each of those miles divided up into 1/10th of a mile sections made our progress seem imperceptibly slow.
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