Pedalling on Regardless

Well maybe whoosh is a bit strong, but we certainly romped the 45K despite 10K of climbing at the start and arrived to check in at exactly 14.00.  After eight days of cycling we are getting a bit fitter. We stopped once for coffee and met this amusing pair. Then…

Our run today took us a couple of hours or so, but perhaps twenty years back in time.  The 30K in bright sunshine and super quiet roads were a pleasure. We only had one village to visit on the route and from a distance Odivelos seemed less than promising. However…

Perhaps we were reluctant to leave the luxury of our rest day hotel, but we were late leaving and chose to do a short 30K hop to Ferreira do Alentejo. With time to burn we turned down the N2 direct route and headed instead along the near-deserted M383.  It proved…

We woke to thick fog and the knowledge that we faced our longest day of the trip covering 60k in some pretty lumpy terrain. Our Residential offered no breakfast so we headed to a Pastelaria for coffee, orange juice and croissant. Good, but not our usual hotel buffet carb-fest.  We…

Our day started with a very pleasant natter over breakfast with John and Sandy, fellow cyclists from Oregon.  They are on a supported tour this time, but have all sorts of touring experience going back over many years.  It was great to swap stories.  Maybe I should have settled for…

I am cheating a bit: we did this over two days, but the wifi in the esteemed Dom Pedro Hotel was so slow nothing would post and so details had to wait. We found a super route out of Alvor heading passed the airport and missing the worst of the…

It’s been our experience thar cycle days can vary from the short to the long and the easy to the hard:  today proved that short days can prove to be hard. The Leg from Algoz to Silves is very familiar territory for us. We know to expect the wee climb…