Jennifer: Cycling In Southern Spain In The Winter

By Andrew on February 4, 2024 • ( 1 Comment )

Every so often I get an email from someone who has been cycling somewhere interesting and would like to share their story. I’m always happy to oblige. One such email arrived this week, from Canadian cyclist Jennifer. She’s currently in Spain with her husband, bravely cycling through the Spanish winter. I remember being in Andalusia in the run-up to Easter back in 2015 and although we had some lovely warm days on the coast, once I started cycling north and into the mountains, it could get chilly. I would imagine that’s certainly the case in January and February. Jennifer asks a question about cycling from Seville to Cordoba. If you have any information to help her I’m sure she would be delighted to hear from you via her website. Anyway, keep reading. Here’s her story…

Hello Andrew

I am a subscriber to your Cycling Europe site. My husband and I have done a lot of cycle touring in Europe with on our own with our own bikes since 2012. He had done a lot before we met but I had never considered it as a way of travelling. Now it is the only way I want to travel.

We lost 3 years to Covid but decided to try a winter cycling trip this year as it is really when we want to be away from our home on a small island off the west coast of BC Canada and chose Andalusia, Spain, mainly for the weather.

We are two weeks into a 2-month trip. I am writing a blog as I have on previous cycling trips. As we had difficulty before we left finding much good info on cycling here that met our criteria for minimal busy road use and terrain not too steep, I wondered if you might be interested in letting your followers know about my blog in case others may wish to consider this as an active winter getaway.

We are not young – respectively 71 (me) and 69 but are healthy and reasonably fit and want to continue this “slow travel” for as long as we can. I actually feel about 12 when I am doing it – just out on my bike exploring my world.

On a couple of previous trips, we cycled from Cuxhaven on the North Sea of Germany to Budapest and on another followed the Moselle River from its source to where it merges with the Rhine at Koblenz.

Anyway, if you want to look at my blog, it is at cyclinginspain.travellerspoint.com.

Spain is definitely a bit more challenging than other European countries as the touring biking infrastructure is not nearly as developed (and the signage is poor to non-existent) though we have found good bike paths in a number of places so far; it’s that the connections between places are not clear but we have found the Camino de Santiago signage quite helpful at times.

We flew into Malaga, stayed there for a week and used our bikes the whole time to get around. It seemed problematic to cycle from there to Cádiz and so we took a train. Then we cycled from Cádiz (also a great place to have our bikes) to Seville. We are currently trying to determine if we can cycle from Seville to Cordoba without being on busy roads. If you have any info on this, I would be interested. Looks like cycling from Cordoba to Granada is quite feasible.

Cheers and here’s to biking as a lovely way to experience our world, no matter what your age.

Jennifer Margison

There are some great photos on Jennifer’s website. They bring back fond memories from 2013 and 2015, the two occasions when I’ve had the pleasure of cycling through Andalusia. Meanwhile here in Yorkshire, it is cold and wet…

If you have your own story to tell, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. All the contact details are here.

It’s worth noting that there is a new article on the Cycling UK website about cycling in Spain using the Vias Verdes. Here’s the link.

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