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Continue reading →: Journey’s End on The AlgarveAfter 675 pretty challenging kilometres on the bikes and almost as many by hire car, we are finally at journey’s end and a very pleasant finish it was too with a very enjoyable lunch with Lesley and Howard. It was great to see the two of them again and get…
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Continue reading →: Loulé to Silves – a favourite route on the AlgarveTo our mind there are only two reasons to cycle the N125 along the Algarve: one, if you are in a hurry and can’t afford to get lost and two, if you are visiting Bike World. Other than that, there are always better alternatives. One of our favourites is the…
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Continue reading →: Lightweight Touring – Chargers ApartWe make every effort to tour light. We each carry two panniers and a bar bag. I have a saddle bag for bike-related bits (tools and spares) and our wet weather gear. We start each trip with 4.5 kilos in each pannier. They tend to lose weight over the weeks…
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Continue reading →: A tale of two rivers – Huelva to TaviraWe flew the 55 miles from Huelva, crossing the Odiel by the old bridge alongside the new motorway effort, then using the wee ferry over the Guadiana into Portugal – always a joy, finishing in Tavira. Jacqui pulled us along like a train today and we enjoyed just our sort…
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Continue reading →: Cycling Huelva to Lepe and PortugalWe are Portugal bound tomorrow. Or at least we hope we are. We did this same leg three years ago. Now Via Michelin and Google Maps saw it is impossible via Corelles. The pedestrian and cycle bridge still exists, but motorways now block progress. The guys in the local bike…
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Continue reading →: The shame of it…… we loaded the bikes into a hire car today to whisk them a couple of hundred kilometres and back on track after admitting we had slipped too far behind our schedule to make it up. We skipped Almeria to near Malaga. It’s my fault. As we might as well…
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Continue reading →: The maps.me app is a gemBefore we left I went looking for a mapping app for my iPhone that would work without Internet access and so incurring data charges. Maps.me looked to fill the bill and so I decided to give it a try. I downloaded the maps for free and went with the free…
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Continue reading →: What a difference a day makesYesterday we left Vera for Tabernas and Almeria, but simply could not find the starting point on the old N340 by the motorway. We wasted an hour or more in the heat trying, until it made no sense to go on. We settled for Garrucha – 10 miles down the…
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Continue reading →: A cyclist’s LunchOn a simply splendid day from Velez Blanco to Vera we stopped for Lunch in Taberno: what did we have? A shared Russian Salad, coffee and a 1.5 litre bottle of water each! It was hot in them thar hills today! This was our best day to date on this…
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Continue reading →: A hill too far…We headed from Lorca to Velez Blanco today. We knew we were in for a few category hills ending with a stiff one over the final 10 K rising to over 1000 metres, but we were not ready for the horrid blustery headwinds that made bike control difficult. We made…
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