Cรกceres: Bicycle Meets… Steps
But we persisted and succeeded in seeing an extraordinary wall city. World Heritage site with good reason!
Cycling Day 8: Mรฉrida To Cรกceres
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. It required a short climb out of Mรฉrida this morning to rejoin my almost constant companion on this leg of the cycle, the N-630, but it wasn’t too many minutes into cycling along the road that I stopped […]
In Praise Of… Spanish Road Signs
I’ve written much about the quality of road signs across Europe from the perspective of the travelling cyclist; French – the benchmark of excellence, Swiss – disappointingly poor (no distances), Italian – oh dear… (More details on the books). But I have to say that Spanish signs rival […]
Cycling Day 7: Zafra To Mรฉrida
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle. The day kicked off with a visit to the post office in Zafra to post the documents, clothes and zoom lens back to Britain, all 2.2 kg of them. I am indebted to the woman who served me […]
Sunglasses: Third Time Lucky?
Pair 1: bought at an outdoor shop in the UK, lost somewhere in or near Tarifa on cycling day one. Pair 2: bought at El Cortes Inglรฉs in Seville for about ยฃ11, broken at some point in the following 12 hours. My fault? Probably. Too late to return […]
Zafra
It’s a nice little place as long as you stay within the old part of the town. I wandered around the almost deserted streets earlier before the รผber relaxed atmosphere started to affect me and I came back to the hotel on the main square of the old […]
Cycling Day 6: Monesterio To Zafra
Click here to see the detailed statistics of today’s cycle A short day after yesterday’s long ride to Monesterio. In fact, not only short but predominantely downhill. It was very much in the same vain in terms of cycling conditions along the defacto cycle path otherwise known as […]
Monesterio: Thoughts For Today
Here’s the bike: He looks very muddy after yesterday’s encounter with the realities of following a walking trail (see yesterday’s post, now updated with pictures). If I pass a high pressure jet car cleaning place today I’ll strip off his panniers and do the necessary. I’m not […]
