A Rochela
2024年10月25日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Having failed to get to the sea last stop I tried again......here there was nothing to stop me!
Downhill
2024年10月25日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
So....it was all going so well....I had found the Miño....or at least its beginnings.....and had plans to visit Mandy in Galicia but then it rained.....not just a bit a LOT of RAIN so I diverted to Oもっと詳しく
Auberge
2024年10月25日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
After the track from hell I finally I get to a pilgrim refuge....much more up market than I remember!
Ponferrada
2024年10月26日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
The rain stopped for ten minutes so I could snap the Templar Castle
Viana de Bolo
2024年10月26日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
Is it a Rio? Is it a Ria? Don't know but it had a nice bridge.......and called Viana even though still in Galicia
Grey Lunch
2024年10月26日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
So the rain has set in proper like. This grey place is A Gudiña which is on the Camino so hoards of plastic swaddled peregrinos passing whilst I have a disappointing grey lunch and don my own plastic
N2
2024年10月26日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
So I am in Chaves.....finally Portugal proper having crossed from Spain then back again and then back to Portugal to bypass the dreaded electronic toll. This is where Portugal's Route 66 the N2 startsもっと詳しく
Halloween comes to Portugal
2024年10月26日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
I saw this witch sitting on a roundabout
Parada de Cunhos
2024年10月26日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
A huge area alongside the N2 is burnt.....here is a bit which isn't
Cumieira
2024年10月26日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
I stop at all the best places! This is a winery with huge Port Butts.....I will be having some later.
Lamego
2024年10月27日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
Baroque church in Lamego....not very old, about 1780
Viseu
2024年10月27日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
This city is rarely visited even though it was once briefly the capital of Galicia and then taken by the Goths. Wiki said the Goths contributed very little to the culture....I wonder what Iron Maidenもっと詳しく
Lost!
2024年10月28日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
This was a big day of getting lost. Riding the N2 is a big thing here.....so they have huge yellow 75 anniversary milestones and brown N2 Rota signs.....all when somebody has found some money to spendもっと詳しく
Green
2024年10月28日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
So I have mentioned all the burnt bits before but there are less of them next to the road here.....even though I am close to Castelo Branco which had a huge fire a few years back......and where it'sもっと詳しく
Trapped!
2024年10月28日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
I slipped and bumped and slid down to the praia fluvial because it boasted an open restaurant....what I didn't know when I took these pictures is that the handle on the inside of the gents toilets isもっと詳しく
Pedrógão Pequeno
2024年10月28日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
They really go for their dams here ....shame they are all empty.
Not Coffee
2024年10月28日, ポルトガル ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
If you look carefully there is a great little cafe then other side of the bridge...a load of Spanish bikers had stopped here and so should I but I am old enough to be their grandfather so I passed
Miradouro do Penedo Furado
2024年10月28日, ポルトガル ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
A prime example of 'lost' I had turned when Google said 'Turn' and had spent the last 15 km convinced I was not on the N2 because Google now showed it on the other side of this spectacularもっと詳しく
Evor
2024年10月29日, ポルトガル ⋅ 🌬 20 °C
Very impressive riding in to the city through the arcs in the aquaduct and gates in the city walls up to the temple of Diana.
Accident
2024年10月29日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
So back on the N2 I come round a corner and find a small car wrapped round a tree.......with a lady inside.....she was conscious, trapped and probably had both legs broken. I checked the car wasもっと詳しく
Nearly Done
2024年10月29日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
So rain set in after the accident so I stopped at Beja so as not to slip and make more accidents.....Nearly Done now.
































































































