On your marks....
7 kwietnia 2023, Szkocja ⋅ ☀️ 9 °C
Last job done! Bikes packed!! Heading south tomorrow. Then north for ...... ever😬
Get set...
9 kwietnia 2023, Portugalia ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
So we're finally here at the start line. Sagres describes itself as the end of the world( or, alternatively, the last bratwurst before America: I think those two descriptions are really saying the Czytaj więcej
Go!!!
10 kwietnia 2023, Portugalia ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Start as I mean to go on...
Odemira
10 kwietnia 2023, Portugalia ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
First day completed. Brisk headwind was challenging especially for the first hour or two. The windmills should have been a clue. surprisingly wild coastline. Lots of surf dudes in bombed out Czytaj więcej
Ervidel
11 kwietnia 2023, Portugalia
And so into the baking interior. Lovely rolling countryside lit up by spring wild flowers. A bit of roadkill as reminder of the beasties in the bushes: maybe wild camping not such a good idea? And a Czytaj więcej
Montemor-o-novo
12 kwietnia 2023, Portugalia ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Cooler today. Fast start then a relaxed afternoon( museum stop & large lunch put paid to record setting) large birds fighting overhead- ?storks. A snake jumped out of the undergrowth in front of me. Czytaj więcej
Abrantes
13 kwietnia 2023, Portugalia ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Pre breakfast and chilly start allowed for multiple pasteis da nata breaks as we ate up the miles through relatively flat repetition of days 2 and 3. Lakeside at montaguil- but road busier and faster Czytaj więcej
Lisbon
14 kwietnia 2023, Portugalia ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
Feel guilty posting this but a day ( or two) off from the bikes and trained into Lisbon. What an amazing yet confusing city! Plenty of A- listed sights , but so much more to wander around .
Lisbon.2
15 kwietnia 2023, Portugalia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
History, high art, hills and hot
Pedrogao pequeno
16 kwietnia 2023, Portugalia ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
And into the hills.. hot today and the northerly winds eased a bit. Most of this part of the n2 has new faster bypass bits- once we realised the old road still existed, was in good condition and was Czytaj więcej
Penacova
17 kwietnia 2023, Portugalia ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Amazing meandering road through the heat of the mountains today with plenty climbing and a 20k descent . However a dark side to this scenery: we're told the devastating fires of 2017 were started on Czytaj więcej
Viseu
18 kwietnia 2023, Portugalia ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
A day of variety. The first bit cool and shady following hydroelectric complex- flat and lakeside interspersed with 12% ramps up the dams. Most of the N2 cycle way is very well signposted here but Czytaj więcej
Peso da Regua
19 kwietnia 2023, Portugalia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Viseu was marvellous but is surrounded by hills. Geographically we reached a the high point today- possibly for the whole trip? otherwise the high point was an interrupted 30km/ 800m descent to Peso. Czytaj więcej
Pochino
20 kwietnia 2023, Portugalia ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Peso is where we split from the n2 and I start to head east ( and Helen will head west to Porto and home). The Douro valley is a "must see" destination with terraced vineyards cascading down ( Czytaj więcej
Peso da Regua
21 kwietnia 2023, Portugalia ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
Rest day today. Explored a few vineyards and produce thereof. It rained!! Last day with Hels. 😔
Miranda do Douro
22 kwietnia 2023, Portugalia ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
Sad to see Helen off on the train to Porto and her own adventures packing her bike away. My train back to pocinho was cancelled then delayed so didn't get on the road til 1pm. Decidedly cooler today Czytaj więcej
Medina de Rioseco
23 kwietnia 2023, Hiszpania ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Well finally crossed into Spain! I awoke to eagles circling above the Douro gorge that makes the portguese/ Spanish border and they remained a feature of the first couple of hours cycling. Rocky Czytaj więcej
Burgos
24 kwietnia 2023, Hiszpania ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Another sizeable day with favourable tail winds and flat terrain- it took more than 2 hrs to have climbed 30metres! Just as well as all I could find for breakfast was doughnuts. Palencia looked Czytaj więcej
Logorno
25 kwietnia 2023, Hiszpania ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
I discovered a new range of mountains today - the sierra de cebollera. They lie between Burgos and Logorno- and became my high point of the ride so far. Fortunately Burgos sits at 850m so there wasn't Czytaj więcej
Pamplona
26 kwietnia 2023, Hiszpania ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
A hilly one today with no friendly tailwind. But bumped into Aussie Steven on his Brompton somewhere in the middle which passed some time. I left Rioja almost as soon as I arrived and am now in Czytaj więcej
St Jean de Luz
27 kwietnia 2023, Francja ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Wow! What a route today. I had been apprehensive about finding a route through the Pyrenees: big mountains/ complex geography/ lots of unrecognisable place names mixed with the occasional motorway and Czytaj więcej
Mimizan
28 kwietnia 2023, Francja ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Too far today. Partly dictated by weather ( might be raining tomorrow) but also due to accomodation options, I did my longest ride today. Despite being the flatest, it was too far. You know the old Czytaj więcej
Cap Ferret
29 kwietnia 2023, Francja ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
" easier day today" but somehow still totalled > 90k. Lat night was a slightly strange "chambre d'hote" experience eating with the hosts then listening to the squeaky bed next door- for a long time. Czytaj więcej
Cap Ferret
30 kwietnia 2023, Francja ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Rest day. Didn't touch the bike apart from moving it the shed to get the sun lounger out. Midday trip to Cap Ferret and my most expensive coffee yet- even with a "s'il vous plait" and a Czytaj więcej
jonzac
1 maja 2023, Francja ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
2 parts to today- the pancake flat medoc- lots of forest and scrub land , making way to vineyards that produce some of the worlds most expensive wine( eg chateau Margaux). Drizzly and cool but never Czytaj więcej





























































































































































































PodróżnikJealous beyond words. Look forward to following this adventure.
PodróżnikOnwards and UPwards! All the best Simon! On yer bike…
All the best Simon. [Colin Abercrombie]