Getting ready
2022年6月6日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
Last minute details. COVID test (negative - phew)! And final packing.
Time to fly
2022年6月8日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Last minute packing. Bike boxes come in just under 50 lbs. drinks in deschuttes. Relatively empty plane.
On our way
2022年6月8日, イングランド ⋅ 🌧 19 °C
Relatively easy check in process at PDX. Bike boxes just slid under 50 lbs! A few drinks for the road and an on time departure. Able to spread out across 3 seats! On time arrival in heathrow but stuckもっと詳しく
Lisbon sights
2022年6月9日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Late night arrival into Lisbon and despite some challenges finding transport big enough to haul us and bikes to our AirBnB, made it around 2 am and crashed. Awoke to a sunny late morning. Coffee andもっと詳しく
Lisbon Day 2
2022年6月10日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Quick ride to check bikes and walk towards Belem. Sample pasteles - twice! Enjoy the sights including riding a trolley.
First 3 days
2022年6月13日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
130 miles in and we are adjusting to life on the road. Many highs and many lows. Highs: temperature, smooth bike lanes and roads, beautiful scenery, hummus Sammie by the coast, kindness of strangers.もっと詳しく
A short day to enjoy the beach
2022年6月14日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Some days you call it quits to enjoy some beach time. After enjoying lunch looking out at the beautiful beach and having ridden 25 miles or so decided to stop and enjoy. Eyeing the uphill awaiting usもっと詳しく
The ups and downs of beach towns
2022年6月15日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Tried to get an early start but it wasn’t meant to be. Go down only to be confronted with unrideable surface. Long push up. Followed by lovely pavement and then another down to go up. And why are weもっと詳しく
Rest day
2022年6月16日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Decide to enjoy the westernmost tip of continental Europe. Check out fortress, lighthouse and town. Cloudy and cool and a nice change.
Heading east
2022年6月17日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
After hitting the most western point we head east across the bottom of Portugal. The route throws us many hills, dirt roads and finally a strong wind at our back. Day is broken up with pastries, aもっと詳しく
Flexibility is key
2022年6月18日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Hot and windy day spent navigating large towns. Though some good bike lanes still hard to get anywhere. Very built up area flush with golf courses. After a long day find the only campground closed.もっと詳しく
A day through the marshes
2022年6月19日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Left the hostel and out of pretty beach town. Wound out way through yet another golf course. Found our first big EuroVelo signs. They would have helped quite a bit earlier. Stopped in another niceもっと詳しく
How many ways can you travel in a day
2022年6月20日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Strong wind all around us as we set off for Spain. Trying to make time by staying on main road which is not much fun. Get to Santo de Monte Gordo and are warned about a bridge being out. Make it toもっと詳しく
Sevilla
2022年6月21日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Beautiful day seeing the sights of Sevilla. Even took a free walking tour where we learned to flamenco dance. Later found a real performance! Beautiful city.
When plans go awry
2022年6月22日, スペイン ⋅ 🌙 22 °C
We had it all planned out. Catch the 9:15 train to Granada and then on to Almería. however, the high speed lines only take bikes bagged up. Where can we go on a slow train. Malaga here we come.もっと詳しく
First days by the Med sea
2022年6月25日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
While we never intended to ride along this part of Spain’s coast, we have found it to be beautiful! The blue sea sea and sky have been incredible with great views around every turn. The riding hasもっと詳しく
On to Cabo de Gata
2022年6月26日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Windy road along the sea to Almería. Lovely bike path through town. Contemplated taking a ferry to Africa. Saw our first EuroVelo sign. This could take us all the way to Turkey. Headed to campgroundもっと詳しく
Cabo de Gata “rest day”
2022年6月27日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Spent the day meandering around. Headed up and down the coast leading to the Faro (lighthouse). Hiked amongst the cliffs and enjoyed some beach time.
Hacia mucho viento
2022年6月28日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Wind had changed direction as predicted and not in our favor. Strong wind in our face as we began a slow ascent across the peninsula. Travel through rather deserted deserts. Slow descent to Aqua Negraもっと詳しく
An endurance test
2022年6月29日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Got a nice early start and stopped quickly for coffee , breakfast and pastries. Nice quiet road along the coast. Make good time to Aquila which takes awhile to navigate through. Beach lunch and swimもっと詳しく
A day to enjoy the scenery
2022年6月30日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Given we missed most of the beauty, de died to stay and enjoy it. Spent the day meandering the paths without bikes and stopping at beautiful beaches
On to Cartagena … Valencia…..
2022年7月1日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
One last windy climb and it’s time to head north. See very little of Cartagena and hop on a long and slow train to Sevilla. Late evening arrival but meander a l bit into the city. A seeminglyもっと詳しく
Valencia… Barcelona …. Girona
2022年7月2日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Early morning train - first of three Manage each boarding and disembarking relatively well. Affine in Girona with plenty of time to see the sights. An evening stroll for dessert found us wanderingもっと詳しく
Back to the Med
2022年7月3日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Early morning stroll to find pastries unique to Girona. Back up from our university dorm hostel and head out amongst many cyclists out for their Sunday ride (Girona is a big cyclist town). Lovelyもっと詳しく
Dali and onto France
2022年7月4日, フランス ⋅ 🌙 27 °C
More nice roads to get to Figueres to see Dali’s ‘theater and museum’. A repeat for me but new to Doug. Get ourselves out of there rather late and the day had heated up. More country roadsもっと詳しく
Helene RimbergYup. And we passed by the tower we hiked to that we had to hold on to you for fear of you blowing away🤭