Category Archives: Spain

The rain has stopped and it has warmed up to 16 degrees. Our plan today is to make it to sleep in the UNESCO city of Úbeda. It is only 57 km directly, but of course we managed to make it into a loop of 160 km and got us to our 3 pm check in at a boutique hotel for 65 Canadian a night in a 14 th century building.… Read the rest

It’s only an hour east and 73 km from Tarifa to Estepona, but we managed to again make a day of it by going the long way. This means riding west and we initially took a small road north, but after 40 km it was blocked with a gate with only access to residents.… Read the rest

With a late start and some curvy roads we took until almost 6 pm to get the 260 km on our planned route south to Cádiz. This includes one of the most famous motorbike roads in the region thru the Grazelema National Park.… Read the rest

We have waited out the rainy weather for 3 days in Leon. We are also struggling with trying to do too many things. We had planned this trip with Orvar and Trevor. We had initially thought we could ride south to Tarifa to meet our good friends there, but after riding mostly on the highway all day from Leon to Plasencia we had a change of heart.… Read the rest

The weather forecast is rather wet and so we have decided to hunker down in Leon. We got a great 3 bedroom apartment 200 m from the Cathedral. This gives us time for some catching up on posts. Orvar needs a new sprocket and chain and so we dropped off his bike today.… Read the rest

Daniel and Petros took the day to run the loop to Leon and back since it is his last day with us. Trevor and I are recovering from colds and the Swede is exhausted after sprinting from Sweden. The plan is for us to rest up and then the four of us will head back to Leon thru the Picos de Europa region.… Read the rest

We had fantastic weather forecast again today near the north coast, but rain on our planned route on a loop south thru Leon. So to the mountains and the beach today on a 260 km loop.

The first stop was breakfast at the bottom of the hill and the second was the one hour espresso top up.… Read the rest

Today the weather is much better and we should have mostly sunny skies for the ride thru the Mountains and the National Park Montaña Palentina and on towards Oviedo for 310 km.

At Potes we decided to cut across to the autovia so we could arrive to the hotel by 530!… Read the rest