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Overview of my Iberian Coast to Coast Cycle ride
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…
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Cycling & walking from Huelva to Mertola, Portugal
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…
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Las Navillas to after Luque
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…
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Granada to in the olive fields near MonteFrio
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…
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Finally in Granada!
I left Hostal El Caminero at just after 8 am the whole town & Hostal deserted, obviously not early morning folks. Eventually, in Los Banos I found an open bar/cafe and managed to get some coffee etc I was pleased to have fresh legs as it turned out I had a couple of huge hills to…
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Cycling Zujar to Purullena by a weird route
I paid up for last nights dinner, drinks & breakfast a grand total of €16! Then for some weird reason, I decided to follow Google maps instead of the route previously worked out. When will I ever learn I MUST NOT USE GOOGLE MAPS ON RURAL RIDES they take no account of terrain or road…
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Brevet Randonneur 200K GDR Murcia 2018 Villena Yecla
Yesterday was the big day for my brevet Randonneur 200K GDR Murcia 2018 Villena Yecla, one of the main reasons for venturing a thousand miles South from the UK to escape the icy conditions of my previous two UK Audaxes in December & January, the weather in Murcia turned out as 9°C and 500m up…
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Biking from Avignon to Montpellier down the Rhone & Camargue
Lifeday: 25759 (70.525 yrs) Date Sun 4 Feb 2018 Location: Lattes, Montpellier, France A bit of a monster day especially with very limited food & drink (missing the ubiquitous 7Elevens of Asia) plus going astray several times. I left the hotel pretty late as I didn’t get to bed until after 1 am due to…
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Wahoo Elemnt GPS comparison for cycling
Now that I’m thinking of doing DIY Audaxes it’s become essential to have a 100% reliable GPS system to record an accurate gpx trail over the 12 or so hours that a 200km ride takes me so I thought I would give the Wahoo Elemnt a try. Of late I’ve had major problems with my Etrex20 turning off randomly (bad…
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Lifeday 25,691 Surprise tour by car
With the bike safely packed I had the whole day free as the flight isn’t until 11.45pm. By an amazing coincidence, LingLing who owns La Maison Du Steak Restaurant in Cambridge and is a longstanding friend happened to be in Taipei to visit her family and attend a wedding over the last weekend. So this…