Barcelona to the Pyrenees – Day 1
Finally after nearly a year in France we took a proper vacation (although some of you have noted that, at least from the looks of this blog, my life here IS a vacation…), and I’m happy to report that...
View ArticleBarcelona to the Pyrenees – Day 2
As soon as we left our buffet breakfast we started to climb, and it was a roller coaster ride till lunch. If you zoom in on the map past Lloret de Mar you will see the tell-tale sign of a … Continue...
View ArticleBarcelona to the Pyrenees – Day 3
The ride out from Begur was pretty average I have to say. Most of the day we had a major road with tons of traffic and little or no shoulder. There were poppies though! I just realized that we …...
View ArticleBarcelona to the Pyrenees – Day 4
After three days of ‘white’ roads that didn’t behave like white roads at all (sorry, but you need to be a Michelin map aficionado to decipher the meaning of this), we were greeted immediately out of...
View ArticleWalking the Camino de Santiago, Spain
As I begin to write this entry I find it more than a little curious that I now live in a town with a pilgrim’s church and refuge, albeit not in Spain and not on the route we walked all … Continue...
View ArticleGrand Tours
I made mention of these Big Three in a recent post and thought maybe I should pump them a little more, in case any of you out there aren’t aware of these giant European sporting events (I don’t blame...
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