All posts by Dave Brown

It’s the longest day of the trip today with 90 miles riding to do so we’re down for breakfast at 7 am and plan to get away by 8.

We leave on time but as we make our way out … Read more

Everyone was awoken by a violent thunderstorm last night so we decide to delay our set-off time until 11 o’clock when hopefully the weather will have improved.

We hope so, it’s tanking down now while we have breakfast.

While we’re … Read more

It’s the longest ride of the trip so far today so we need to be on the road by 9am. Not an issue as most of the lads had an early night after the football last night.

Not exactly inspiring … Read more

As it’s a fairly short ride today, only 33 miles, the lads decide that today will be our Donkey Derby day, our handicapped race to the finish in Tabua.

However, we’re not going to start the race from our hotel … Read more

Hey look, smiley happy faces from the lads at the cafe in Castro Daire. But what’s the reason for this merriment?… Find out later…

Fortunately Gibbo was able to sort his saddle issue at the bike shop last night so … Read more

Ok we’re ready for our first day, a day to iron out the wrinkles and test the lads fitness.

First things first though, as the lads have to set their bikes up. All goes well and we take a few … Read more

Here we go again!

On Thursday, June 13th we’re off on our annual bike trip.

This year we’re heading to Portugal to travel the full length of N2 Cycle tour.

The N2 cycle tour is a route spanning over 450 … Read more

I’ve now added the gallery for this year’s trip to the Sierra Nevada mountains. You can view it below. It can also be seen from the Sierra Nevada 2023 page and the Gallery page.

Gallery

Click on the image … Read more

It’s our last day of riding today and there’s always a bit of apprehension as we know at the end that we’ll have to traverse a major city, in this case Malaga.

We make an early start and get away … Read more

As we’re staying for two nights here at the hostel Coxy has done us another loop route round to El Turro and back.

There are several routes up there so by comparing his route on a Garmin and my roadmap … Read more