Heat is a thing
2024年1月21日, チリ ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
No straight line to get where we are going. Leave lush green valley and head into arid desert. Make it over hill and back to valley by Ruta 5. No other direct route so follow winding road to Talca. Soもっと詳しく
River valley
2024年1月20日, チリ ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Bit of an up coming out of our campground. Make our way through a few towns and then ride along Rio Mataquito. Few north/south roads so have to go west to go south. Turn away from the Andes. Plan toもっと詳しく
Fertile valley
2024年1月19日, チリ ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Quick ride through grapes to get to museum in San Fernando. Turns out that Uruguayan plane crashed due east of this town. Nice museum which includes exhibit on their rescue. Meander along countrysideもっと詳しく
It gets smoother
2024年1月18日, チリ ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
A lovely ride into wine country. Grapes, peaches, corn and many other produce surrounds us. Turn towards the mountain and camp by river.
A rocky start
2024年1月17日, チリ ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Get a nice early start and find ourselves on dedicated bike paths out of Santiago. Mountains on both sides of us and grapes alongside. Two flat tires slow us down resulting in big climb during hottestもっと詳しく
Santiago
2024年1月16日, チリ ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Day spent in Santiago. Check out the many markets, main square, Cathedral and Museum of History. Quite toasty.
Hola Chile
2024年1月15日, チリ ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
A mere 15 hours and we are in Chile. Fly over the Andes. Gather our boxes and assemble ourselves in the airport. Not a terrible ride to our apartment. Get clean and go for a meander. Dinner of craftもっと詳しく
Adios España
2024年1月14日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Successfully managed to pack everything into our 4 boxes. Fortunately our host had access to to a car big enough take us and our stuff to the airport. Long wait in line but easily checked everythingもっと詳しく
Packing
2024年1月13日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Day spent packing. Added adventure of needing new wheels for Doug’s bike as hub axles are broken. And of course it’s a Saturday, late in the day - this bike stores are closed. Decathlon comesもっと詳しく
Another step closer
2024年1月12日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 7 °C
Very cold morning 32F. Chilly ride through chaotic streets of Madrid to our warm showers hosts - Jesus and Dace. Settle in and plan our next steps. Doug disappears for a 4 hour haircut. Get bikeもっと詳しく
Loonnng train ride
2024年1月11日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C
Quick ride to the train station and board our train to Madrid. Zoom past green countryside. Almost 8 hours later we arrive in Madrid. Head for the Cats Hostel (again).
Sevilla
2024年1月10日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
A nice return to Sevilla - visiting parts of the city we had not seen last time. A walk along the canal, Flamenco museum and of course - food.
A rainy day
2024年1月9日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Dragged ourselves away from the 15 cats and nice stove and rode to Jerez. Though heavy rain at times, it was dry most of the time. Sandy ride through park. Opted to hop on the train and go to Sevilla.
Pine forests and more coast
2024年1月8日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
It’s amazing what 3.4 million € will buy - an incredible bike path up a mountain and through a pine forest. More surfing towns and made our way to our warm showers host- Claudia. Nice eveningもっと詳しく
España
2024年1月7日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
One last harrowing ride through Moroccan streets got us to our ferry. Just a quick one - and we are back on the European continent. Lovely ride along coast on newly created bike paths. With daylightもっと詳しく
Morocco: Cats and Chaos
2024年1月6日, モロッコ ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
After an 8 hour bus ride, we find ourselves back where we started -Tangier. Our time in Morocco has been great - with some real highs and definite lows. It is a country that should be on bucket listsもっと詳しく
El Jadida
2024年1月5日, モロッコ ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
A rather chill day for us. Late start and wandered into
Portuguese Cite for a late breakfast. Walked within 600 year old fortress and along the walls. Returned via the coastal route which would haveもっと詳しく
Onto El Jadida
2024年1月4日, モロッコ ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Our coastal road was neither coastal nor much of a road. Very chewed up and narrow. Opted to go off onto a smaller road. Though a bit under construction it wound us through farmland and amongst tinyもっと詳しく
A day of contrasts
2024年1月3日, モロッコ ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
As we were going to ride through Casablanca we knew it would be busy - which it certainly was. However, occasional bike paths helped. Lots of trucks heading into and out of the giant port. A beautifulもっと詳しく
South along the coast
2024年1月2日, モロッコ ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Marvelous bike path along the water leads us out of Rabat. Pass by a vet different side of Morocco - a wealthier side. Seem the king also has a lovely palace/compound on the coast as well. A camelもっと詳しく
Happy New Year
2024年1月1日, モロッコ ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Enjoyed quieter parts of Rabat. Though we couldn’t go inside Chellah, the walls and the birds were quite impressive. Also couldn’t get in to see the palace or the museums (because of holiday).もっと詳しく
Rabat
2023年12月31日, モロッコ ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
In order to avoid what seemed to be bad roads and traffic, took the bus to Rabat. Quite easy - just rolled the bikes into luggage compartment. Toured around - visiting the Atlantic Ocean, the Kasbahもっと詳しく
Fes
2023年12月30日, モロッコ ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Took the train to Fes. Bigger and more polished city than Meknes. Many beautiful gates and doors, though guards would not let us take photos. Other sights included the tanneries and ancient tombs.
Meknes
2023年12月29日, モロッコ ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Day spent touring the city. Lots of reconstruction going on. Two small museums where the buildings were as interesting as the exhibits.
On to Meknes
2023年12月28日, モロッコ ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Short day of riding though on busy, hilly roads. Managed to find our Riad without too much trouble. Wander around, find a drink or two and have nice dinner.