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The journal
For my regular readers, all the previous posts are updated with Flickr links Its been a reasonable 1,000-mile bike ride at an average of 56 miles (90km) a biking day (it’s the first question everyone asks me). Things I’ve maybe learnt: a) It’s hopelessly impractical to do long distance train journeys in Europe with a touring […]
Monday 26th February 2018 I liked Lost Lisbon Hotel & Casa de Pasto restaurant in Portugal so much, even with the walk to the toilet, that I decided to stay here all week and return home on Friday for Sally’s Cambridge Half Marathon this upcoming weekend. Monday had rain forecast in the afternoon so I […]
Saturday, February 24, 2018 The impending storm with its heavy rain fast approaching and the bike fixed I thought I would make this one long final riding day in the sun. One factor in my favour was a fair bit of the distance was downhill. Hotel Santa Barbara provided an early breakfast at 7 am so […]
Friday 23 February 2018 – My eldest boys birthday! Blimey, the Portuguese are so miserable I went down at the allotted hour for breakfast to find no sign of life except a living statue of a man in the hall, not a smile or grimace. Eventually, I worked out the restaurant was across the courtyard so as […]
Thursday, February 22nd Well, the walking part was due to mechanical failure, first time in several years of cycle touring 🙁 I started off from Huelva early, stopping at the ham shop to get a quick cheese sandwich, with the firm intention of getting the rear derailleur sorted out, but the shop didn’t open till 10 […]
I decided to move on from Seville after one night, I’m just enjoying the biking in the glorious sun too much to spend time mooching around cities. It took a long time & distance before I was in open country and quietish roads again. Today I was more careful which roads I rode on so as soon […]
A bumper biking day a bit like an Audax with over 91 miles covered a lot of it over incredibly poor roads & tracks with each massive bump making me think that some part of the bike will have been broken but thankfully nothing had. I left Hotel Italia after a good breakfast wondering why […]
Today I finally left the Sierras behind, dropping down 1800 feet to the beautiful city of Cordoba on the banks of the Guadalquivir river amazing the bridge built by the Romans over 2,100 years ago! I left the Los Castillarejos Apartamentos Rural late at 10.30, due to writing the previous blog post. Antonio had laid […]
Mady & Marc at looked after me well at Las Navillas MM. Starting the day with an excellent fruit salad and local cheeses etc also Marc pumped my tyres up to 100 psi (first time in two weeks) and also fixed the rear mudguard, although, as he mentioned, down here they don’t ride if it […]
I stayed up late but the only tickets available at 00:01 this morning for the Alhambra were for after midday so I will leave visiting the inside for another trip. I really didn’t enjoy the Marquis Urban hotel with it’s ill-designed AC control system that decided at 4 am to start up full blast 🙁 also the […]
