This Green and Pleasant Land
27/01/18 Part of the appeal of Tuscany, we decided, was the amount of green growth we could see. Even in winter when the trees were mostly bare, the hills and… Read more »
Category: Cycling
The Route des Crêtes – Better on a Bike
23/01/18 We had spent a few days discussing a possible visit to the Verdon Gorge. Would we go? It was ‘sort of’ en-route, but ideally we would want to spend… Read more »
Border Crossings
19/01/18 We stayed at Portbou harbour for our last night in Spain. We hadn’t intended to stay there but had been frightened off our intended parking spot – Platja de… Read more »
Snow in the Alpujarras
09/01/18 – 11/01/18 It was going to be a whistle stop tour through the Alpujarras as the inclement weather had delayed our start. We only had three days before we… Read more »
Cycling in Cabo de Gata
28/12/17 – 29/12/17 We were looking forward to visiting the Natural Park of Cabo de Gata, somewhere that we had seen on blogs and forums and imagined we would enjoy…. Read more »
The Grazalema Mountains
16/12/17 – 17/12/17 From Seville we travelled south east to the Sierra de Grazalema natural park where we hoped to get our mountain fix. Our first stop was El Bosque,… Read more »
In the Footsteps of Columbus
11/12/17 – 12/12/17 We crossed the border between Portugal and Spain, passing into the province of Huelva, an area of Spain I had never heard of before. There is a… Read more »
Last Days in Portugal
08/12/17 – 09/12/17 Our planning day had been fruitful and we knew what we wanted to do before meeting up with Aaron. So we were off on the way to… Read more »
The Special One
30/11/17 – 01/12/17 The next couple of days were spent around the Setubal area, birthplace of Jose Mourinho, the Special One. Setubal is just south of Lisbon and we skirted… Read more »
The Obidos Lagoon
24/11/17 We were staying at a large paid aire at Foz do Arelho. This area of parking nestled between the coast and the Óbidos lagoon and was very busy with… Read more »
Portugal’s Silver Coast
21/11/17 – 22/11/17 We had a moment of deja vu as we approached our next destination of Sao Pedro do Moel. This is Portugal’s Silver Coast and had some striking… Read more »
Peneda-Gerês, Perfect
15/11/17-16/11/17 The national park of Peneda-Gerês was a place we fell in love with during our short visit. The first place since we crossed the channel that makes it into… Read more »
Rio Lima
14/11/17 Portugal has a number of national bike routes – Ecovias, Ecopistas and Ciclovias. Ponte de Lima was on the route of one of them and we followed it upstream… Read more »
Following the River from Guitiriz
06/11/17 After a cool night the morning was foggy and we took a little while to warm up. While waiting for a little motivation we took a look on Wikiloc… Read more »
Lakes and the Silver Coast
26/10/17-27/10/17 As we drove south of Archachon the landscape became an unending monotony of pine forests on sandy soil. This huge forest was man made, turning sandy heath into serried ranks of resin… Read more »
Finding Summer in Arcachon
24/10/17-25/10/17 We still hadn’t got used to the size of France and this was in evidence when we moved on from Ile d’Oléron; Arcachon was the target for our next stop, but at slightly… Read more »
Oysters on the Ile d’Oléron?
23/10/17 I am going to apologise now for my lackadaisical approach to accents, acute, grave or circumflex. I will try to remember them, but I couldn’t honestly say that I will try… Read more »
More Celebrations
7/10/17 – 10/10/17 Aaron’s Graduation was a punctuation mark in our journey, the event that would free us up to travel overseas. But it wasn’t really a full stop, more of… Read more »
Fabulous Falkirk
27/09/17-28/09/17 I would never have thought about visiting Falkirk if it wasn’t for Facebook. I will admit I have a bit of a Facebook addiction, accessing it far more than… Read more »
A Tale of Two Bike Rides
26/09/17-27/09/17 We left Kilvrecht to head east along the string of lochs, all with hydro schemes for electricity generation, until we hit the A9 where we were able to start heading… Read more »