tour reports » 3500kms around Spain - 9 day trip

Just spent 9 days touring with some friends around SPain.

From Marbella, to the Pyrinees and back , in a round about kind of way.

I fitted an extra large CalSci screen for the journey. I must admit when I first saw it on the bike I was pretty embarassed, but wow what a difference, it has changed my life.

We all know how bad the original screen is anyway. With this screen, in the top screw position and at top height, I could go at 160kms on the motorway, with my arms crossed (speed control on) and have virtually no buffeting. Absolute life changer.

I cannot complain about the bike either, what a pleasure to tour on. I finally have a bike that I don´t hate after riding 800kms straight.

If anyone comes this way, this is more or less the route.
MARBELLA
Granada
Jodar
Albacete
Cuenca
Albarracin
Pamplona
Jaca
Panticosa
formica
Ainsa
Vielha sort
Soria
Segovia
alberca
Salamanca
barco de Ávila
jerte
Guadalupe
almaden
Córdoba
campillos

We avoided all motorways and toll roads where possible and took A and B roads with lots of twists and turns.

Definitely worth a look if you are ever in Spain.

...photos?

Any GPS tracks, by chance?
And agree on photos!

I've been to northern Spain by bike once, loved it

I did a tour a few years ago, starting in Belgium, through Luxembourg, France, Andorra, Spain, Portugal and back and simply loved it. No highways, just local roads so it did take a few more days...

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Spainy, I am very envious! I started doing some "what if" planning for another trip to Spain in 2021 early July this year and got as far as looking at ferry schedules then Spain went on the "hit list" so I gave up. I have done the trip twice to date. First to Northern Spain and the Picos then across to Central Portugal (Miranda do Duoro just across the border makes for a good staging post and first night stop on that trip) and then to your neck of the woods - Alozaina on the edge of the Sierra de las Nieves in the foothills behind Malaga giving me access to Ronda and the Sierra de Grazalema. I loved that trip. I coupled it with a visit to Granada at Easter where the parades were wonderful.

My plan for 2021 was/is to repeat Alozaina or somewhere similar as a base and combine it this time with Seville.

I guess the only realistic way forward is to plan in detail and book at short notice factoring in a need to quarantine on your return and stocking up with food accordingly.

P.S. With the A-397 Saint Pedro to Ronda road on your doorstep you don't really need to travel anywhere for good riding. You are already sited in a Mecca! I did the road 3 times during my last trip it is so good! And everywhere around you makes for good riding. You are spoilt for choice.

Chris

Zitat von TenCats im Beitrag #6

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I did a tour a few years ago, starting in Belgium, through Luxembourg, France, Andorra, Spain, Portugal and back and simply loved it. No highways, just local roads so it did take a few more days...

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Last Tuesday I took the Newhaven to Dieppe ferry back to France with my new bike. Dieppe to the Dordogne was about 500 miles and I left the boat at about 6 am, was home at 14:00, I was running it in so had to take it easy. From here is only a half day down to the Spanish border on the Mediterranean, less to Andorra. So much to see in so many places on the route to Spain.

I will try get some pics up today,but I am not really sure how the addpics works very well.

I´ve tried uploading quite a few but it is giving me individual links too each picture, any ideas?

GPS , I will ask my friend, if not I will try work it on Google maps somehow ,, however they only let you put 8 stops at a time in there.Unless anyone knows of an app that allows you to do that with more stops , and being able to customise the route between stops?

Zitat von PlacidoD im Beitrag #7

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Spainy, I am very envious! I started doing some "what if" planning for another trip to Spain in 2021 early July this year and got as far as looking at ferry schedules then Spain went on the "hit list" so I gave up. I have done the trip twice to date. First to Northern Spain and the Picos then across to Central Portugal (Miranda do Duoro just across the border makes for a good staging post and first night stop on that trip) and then to your neck of the woods - Alozaina on the edge of the Sierra de las Nieves in the foothills behind Malaga giving me access to Ronda and the Sierra de Grazalema. I loved that trip. I coupled it with a visit to Granada at Easter where the parades were wonderful.

My plan for 2021 was/is to repeat Alozaina or somewhere similar as a base and combine it this time with Seville.

I guess the only realistic way forward is to plan in detail and book at short notice factoring in a need to quarantine on your return and stocking up with food accordingly.

P.S. With the A-397 Saint Pedro to Ronda road on your doorstep you don't really need to travel anywhere for good riding. You are already sited in a Mecca! I did the road 3 times during my last trip it is so good! And everywhere around you makes for good riding. You are spoilt for choice.

Chris

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Here are a bunch of pics we took on the trip . Some of them are the roads we drove through and places we stopped on the side of the road for some baguettes. Others are major cities that we stayed in.

We generally didn´t book anywhere in advance and just booking.com´d it on the way depending on how we were feeling and how far we wanted to travel that day.

The furthest we did in a day was 800, and also a 600. Other than that it was basically looking for all the most windy roads that we could find and completely avoding motorways, even if it meant following A roads which followed the motorway path.

I lived in Galicia for a year, travelling to Ferrol everyday but living in La Coruña.

Last year I did a 2700kms trip from Marbella to Santiagio de Compostela (passing through Portugal) and coming back via Asturias and Ruta de la Plata.

That looks absolutely awesome.

Hmmmmm thas was supposed to be a reply to Tencats´ post.