Category: Cycling
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Week 19/20: Sicily
In this blog post we explore Sicily’s numerous Greek and Roman archaeological sites, get a taste for hiking in its beautiful countryside, and savour some Sicilian food specialities and wine. James also gets to flex his climbing and mountain biking muscles. Getting There We spent a couple of weeks meandering around Italy waiting for the…
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Week 17/18: Avoiding the rain in Italy
In this blog post we do our best to avoid rain and manage to visit the classic Tuscan cities, and get a taste of Marche, Abruzzo, Puglia and Calabria in the process. Our “Italy plan” was to take a ferry from the north west coast of Italy to Sicily, and then work our way back…
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Week 14: Sintra and Alcobaça
This week’s exploits mostly cover climbing and mountain biking in Sintra, but we squeezed in some cultural sights in Sintra and Alcobaça too. Sintra From Lisboa we headed 30 minutes west to Sintra, a mountain ridge that sits along the coast west of Lisboa. Sintra is a magical place and it’s not surprising that throughout…
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Week 10: Granada, Malaga and El Chorro
Visiting Granada and the Alhambra with a Campervan and a Dog We finally made it to Granada. After several failed attempts last week at parking at Areas de Caravanas near Granada, we decided to change tack and just drive and park in Granada. We usually find driving into and parking in a city with a…
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Week 9: Sierra Nevada
For the first week of 2023 we headed to Spain’s highest mountain range – the Sierra Nevada, James did some epic road cycling, we had to adjust to several failed plans, and spent some time chilling on the south coast. Road cycling in the Sierra Nevada We’ve watched television coverage of the Vuelta and have…
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Week 7/8: Festive double edition
Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful holiday season and thank you for following us on our journey. We experienced our first vanlife Christmas and New Year, and whilst it was a “different” or “new” experience, frankly the last two Christmas holidays were “different” too so perhaps that’s the new normal 🙂. 2020…
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