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<p>A man looking to take the scenic route home on a fold-up bike endured a 'treacherous' journey in 30-degree heat after Spanish Google Maps recommended a 'nightmare' out-of-the-way route.<br></p><p>Video shows truck driver Adam McCormack, 33, on his route home from the supermarket in Nerja, Andalusia, after he is heard saying he wanted to take "the scenic route" back.</p><p>But Google Maps had other plans and sent him off the beaten path to a beaten-up track that he described as something "the best mountain biker in the world" wouldn't be able to tackle.</p><p>To make matters worse, Adam, who is six-foot-five, was on a tiny fold-up bike carrying his shopping home.</p><p>He not only had to navigate the treacherous course but carry six beers, a bottle of red wine, a bottle of white wine, cooking oil, croquettes, gyozas, ham, cheese, tostadas, olives, nuts, chicken wings and pork belly.</p><p>The out-of-the-way journey saw Adam traipsing through what looked like a drainage ditch surrounded by fences with nothing in the shot to indicate it was a bike path.</p><p>Adam, from Dublin, said: "I went to Lidl to buy some stuff for dinner as myself and my girlfriend have been travelling around Spain in a van I converted. </p><p>"I walked outside of Lidl and entered the campsite name into Google Maps and it gave me two options. </p><p>"One was the way I came, by the road, straight and easy, which would have taken seven minutes. </p><p>"The other route available was a winding road that seemed to be a shortcut, although it said it was eight minutes."</p><p>Adam decided to risk taking the longer route as he expected it to be nicer than the main road, despite it being marginally longer.</p><p>He added: "After about five minutes of descent of an uneven, rubble-laden pathway things started to get really bad. <br></p><p>"I actually googled how to suggest a change in a recommended cycle path on Google Maps and tried to list the last part of the route in question as impassable."<br></p>
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