Category Bicycle Tours and Rides
Europe 2014 – Amsterdam (Bev) – Kansas Meets Amsterdam
Timeline: August 5th – 9th Anticipating a complicated morning and hoping to be able to make a move to Field Three before we ran our various errands, we bought some coffee and chocolate croissants from the market and then checked in at Reception to see about moving. The gods of travel smiled upon us that […]
Europe 2014 – Bruges (Brugge) – We Climb to the Top and Tour the Canals
Timeline: August 2nd – 4th This day would be spent seeing as many of Bruges’s typical tourist spots as possible. After a very good and filling breakfast at the Fevery (ham, cheese, yoghurt, cereal, three different types of bread, jams, etc.) we set out for the Markt Square with a brief but fun detour at […]
Europe 2014 – Tossa de Mar: The Party Continues
Timeline: July 12th – 18th It turned out that the bedroom Francois was to occupy did have three beds but would have been way to small to accommodate the three of us, so Joanna and I simply brought up our sleeping bag and pads and slept outside on the large patio, around the side and […]
Europe 2014 – Tossa de Mar – Houston, We Have Landed
Timeline: July 12th – 18th We broke camp on Saturday the 12th, packed the car and then, with a short drive ahead of us to Tossa de Mar, climbed on our bikes for a ride from camp. The folks at the reception desk had suggested heading north and thus we went. The first short stretch […]
Europe 2014 – Madrid: A Really Good Bike Ride
Timeline: July 2nd – 7th Our plan for the day was to get a bike ride in and then head into town for dinner at the Mercado and potentially a haircut for me at a barbershop we’d see on the tour. We wanted to also stop in at a bike shop, Cyclos Otero, as had […]
Europe 2014 – Granada: How Steep is a 16% Grade?
Timeline: June 27th –July 1st After a couple of busy days sightseeing in Granada, added to a string of similar days from Seville on, we decided to spend the next two days hanging around camp and getting a couple of bike rides in. I asked the campground owner I’d talked to before about potential routes […]
Europe 2014 – Sevilla, Coincidence is Just God’s Way of Remaining Anonymous
We returned to town the next day for a pair of tours recommended in the Steves guide, hosted by Conception Delgado. The first, Sevilla Cultural Show and Tell was a nicely paced and informative 15 Euro visit that hit the highlights of the central part of town, full of background information about it, the lives […]
Europe 2014 – Sevilla, We Succumb to a Burger Craving
The drive from Lisbon to Sevilla (Seville) took about five hours, one hour longer than if we had used the toll roads. While not a difficult drive, particularly as much of it was on two lane highways out in the country, it was still a bit tiring. We arrived at Camping Villsom and by the […]
Europe 2014 – Lisbon, Could this be California?
Following the routine that we’d established earlier, our plan for the next couple of days would be to try to get a couple of bike rides in before we left for Sevilla. We arose the morning of the 18th and set out just before noon intending to find a rumored bike path down to the […]
Europe 2014 – Pamplona Minus the Bulls
It was a pretty long, but uneventful drive from the Dordogne down to Pamplona. We hit a couple of short sections of toll road, but the charges were reasonable. We crossed over into Spain just south of Bayonne and Biarritz on Highway N121-A, a good road that brought us to Camping Ezcaba, about five miles […]
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