Hello again. It’s quite some time since I wrote anything and I think it’s time to put fingers to keyboard again. Since I got back from South America I have not been stationary too long but I also have not really done anything that warranted a day by day account. After enjoying the confort of…
Category: Spain
From the bottom to the top.
It’s finally here, I have travelled from the top to the bottom of Europe and in a few hours I’ll be crossing the straight and reset the trip by getting to the top of Africa only to head towards the bottom of it.. I started the day as every day should start, coffe, cake, spare…
Andalucía’s big sky
Funny how things never turn out the way you expect. After yesterday tyre fiasco I had to change my plans and instead of heading straight for Tarifa I had to add an intermediary step in Vejer de la Frontera to visit a bike shop for spares. This in my mind meant easy going today and…
Two Dutch pensioners
You are probably wondering what an olive tree has got tot do with two Dutch pensioners. Well, all will be revealed. Let me just tell you that today was a 2 pictures day, which considering that the weather was good and I have taken many pictures on rainy days is quite something. Let’s start from the…
Sevilla
I have reached Seville and I have elected to take my first holiday. It’s nice here. I have always had badly skewed opinions about north and south. Mainly due to the peculiarities of Italy’s history and the scars that it has left onto the current developmental situation in the country. This meant that I had…
Buenos días Andalucía
So, at long last I’m getting to the bottom of Spain. Andalucía looks really pretty. As soon as I crossed the border from Extremadura I got the impression that this region knew how to do tourism. Unfortunately the prices follow. Route 2,856,239 – powered by www.bikemap.net It was a fairly long ride today. The problem…
Gotcha!
the last full day in Extremadura. I did not even know this region existed and now I’m quite sorry to leave it. It’s not that the scenery was extraordinary, apart from the national park, it’s just that the sun I got in the past few days has made this a quite pleasurable part of the…
The Long and Winding Road
It feels sometimes as I don’t celebrate enough that strip of tarmac that allows me easy passage across all these countries I am visiting. Today’s post will be a bit of a celebration of it, together with all the interesting things you can find on and about it. The view at the top was the…
Tempomanent
You’d think there should be an organisation in every country that takes suggestions for new words. The French have it, it’s called Académie Française and it’s pretty much in charge of the French language. If they say it’s in, then it’s in. I’m only saying this as I saw something this morning that made realise…