I did not sleep well last night, demons caught up with me, and that was all I needed before getting on the bike again. In the lobby I met the first and only non Moroccan people I have seen this side of the sea. It was a couple of French librarians who are down here…
Category: Places
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It’s the second day in which I am stationary in a small city in the north of the Moroccan coast. Larache or El Araich is a not exactly what you would call a tourist destination. I have had the chance of wondering about town yesterday in the intervals between the rain showers and I have…
First day in Africa
Wow, I think it will take some time for me to get used to this. I had vastly underestimated the cultural shock I would have got by changing continent. It’s not the terrain or even the landscape, the difference from southern Spain is not so great, it’s the people and their attitude. I suspect the…
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…