Here’s an event to consider for anyone looking to have an excuse to ride gravel in Europe. Now, I have no relationship with this event nor its organizers, I merely intended to do it in 2020, but, er, something came up. (I doubt I’ll be able to fit it into the schedule for '23, but hopefully in '24.)
https://irongravel.com/iron-gravel/
Date: June 17, 2023.
They’ll have three distances: 180km with 5100m (16.7k’), 110km with 3100m (10.2k’), and 55km “sprint” with 1300m (4.3k’). The race start is 2hrs south of Valencia by car.