A few kilometres down the road cyclists throng the streets of Girona. The Catalonian town has become famous as a hub for professionals who ride the local roads en route to the Grand Tours. Without doubt the cycling in the countryside around Girona offers much to commend it and yet just an hour’s drive across the French border, if you are a Madrileño, or in northern Catalunya if you are a Barceloní(na) is a small, little known French town called Céret nestling in the foothills of the foothills of the eastern Pyrenees where the riding, I would say, is just as good and in many ways better.