• Mark Holbrook
  • Mark Holbrook

Picos!

You can go when it rains she said........ Read more
  • Trip start
    October 20, 2024

    Sanlúcar de Guadiana

    October 20, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    For months our poor Finca had seemed like a tinderbox and Kari was not unreasonable to insist on regular fire drills and me to remain as firefighter-in-chief but now it had rained and suddenly I could leave......I wonder how wet the Picos would be....Read more

  • Not alone!

    October 20, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    Well it would be unreasonable to expect to have this all to yourself......they were all faster than me and I have to say I gave up trying at double the speed limit.

  • Cáceres

    October 20, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

    As always not as far as I would like but both bike and helmet not as comfy as I would like..and despite the antics of earlier (bike satisfactorily showing 205 as fastest this trip) It is not a bloody race is it? Disappointing town on the outskirts but I found the casco and it was quite photogenic. Also there is a cave here within the town walls where there is a painted hand print which is 60,000 years old......that is so old that it was not made by our species!Read more

  • Dry

    October 21, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

    I have taken many photos as I pass this place to port but this is the driest I have ever seen it

  • Barrio de Nuestra Señora

    October 21, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    So you can tell you are getting north.. the buildings change colour, nobody serving understands you 'cos they are all Ukrainian and the bars are full of old men playing cards with much noise

  • The Eagle has Landed

    October 21, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    The whole village is deserted like everything I have seen here except for an empty casa rural where I am staying and the Ukrainian who arrived by bicycle to let me in. She is making me dinner though which is good although she said to choose something that is not too complicated.Read more

  • NOTHING

    October 22, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

    So nothing to see at all......well I am sure it is there but......also 4C so going down

  • Leaving Potes

    October 23, 2024 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 9 °C

    Well this was a lovely place to stop. A bit touristy but heh, I am a Tourist! Heading for the cable car now....sun just coming onto the hills.

  • Fuente Dé

    October 23, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C

    I arrive at the cable car terminus to find unhappy people milling around.......yes it is closed due to.......well who the hell knows! Anyway, closed cable car means no staff so nobody to stop me flying my drone up there instead and saving myself E20Read more

  • San Glorio!

    October 23, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C

    I last passed this in fog and could hardly see the statue let alone the view........What a Difference a Day Makes

  • Not Nothing

    October 23, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C

    And now it is not Nothing! .....the same place all was thick fog yesterday....now........

  • Riaño

    October 23, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    This has to rank as one of the prettiest places on Earth

  • Cangas

    October 24, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

    Fog and very cold ...then at Cangas it cleared a little

  • Colunga

    October 24, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    More Hórreos, more views and a Moto Guzzi on the wall of the café

  • Tazones

    October 24, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    Lunch....very busy though in my mind not quite as pretty as some of the other places I stopped at

  • Luarca

    October 25, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C

    Well I went there to see the sea because the fabulous elevated and fast road really only lets you see pretty green fields and fat cows.......so off I go....thread through a very complicated one way system but with illuminated digital overhead information panels promising 45 places in parking at the port only to be met with a 'Cortado' sign.....both vehicles and pedestrians......so I never got to see the Sea!Read more