Green Way
Heading North-ish
$$$ the moment/experience, not the room itself A number of people have asked how we manage to travel for such a long period of time. We are on long service…
Warm Feet
Madrid to Toledo to Valencia
Madrid Wandering into Madrid, we found the May Day public holiday in full swing. Luckily, this was a tourist day for us. Our whole focus was to chill out, wander…
Love this bloke, with his water and food
Buen Camino
Moving on from Burgos Negative temperatures and morning showers awakens every element of your being, like the blissful melodies of a three month old with a tummy ache. It's 8am…
Hire a car for the day
Burgos – a city with many sides
Inland we go. Burgos is a city with many sides. My initial introduction to the city was that the city was quite sterile and modern. The apartment blocks looked like…
Basque-Northern Delight, San Sebastian
San Juan to San Pedro A friend once told me, when travelling and someone gives you advice on a must-do direction, "always choose the YES option". Yesterday's climb included a…
Dorian and Cyrille
Destination – Basque Country – Spain
San Sebastian Sitting upon a hill top, gazing towards Miramar Palace in San Sabastian. Basque country, not Spain; or so we are told (it is Spain really, just don't tell…
Hairy Wonky Donkey
Dunkirk – Operation Dynamo
South to France - Dunkirk Skies are blue-ish. Wind has eased-ish. Time to take advantage of the conditions and hit the road south. The channel from The Netherlands to The…
Cheese shop
Zeeland – the old one not the New one.
Cycling south from Keukenhof towards The Hague. "Towards the south, and towards the warmth," we cry. Our enthusiasm to straddle our steel horses is renewed. Courses are plotted with Mapout,…
Tulips – Keukenhof
Housing in Holland comes in many and varied sizes. Our trip from Amsterdam west toward the coast, went along many paths, roads, footpaths, cycle only highways and canals. The variety…
Cookies and smokes available everywhere.
Ah Amsterdam
Postcard Ah Amsterdam, yes it is everything....and I mean everything....that you have read on the postcard. The good, the bad and the ugly. Although, I didn't see much ugly. It…
Putting bikes in bags.
Bicycle touring, Good and Bad
Third time lucky Europe claims the prize, as being our third major bicycle tour destination. We are by no means experts; however as they say, third time lucky. I'm not…
Our little pocket of a room in the roof space
Slovakia – a new direction
Slovakia If Vienna was Salzburg on steroids, then Bratislava 'Slovakia' is Salzburg after a nice bottle of red. Totally chilled and happy to see us. Food-again I rate the Bratislavan…