http://beercyclers.com Aimless meandering.. On bikes. Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:13:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en That's Portuguese for hola! We had a fantastic time in Galicia, cycled right round the rugged coast and came into Santiago from the West, ate pilgrim cake and octopus, drank Alborino wine and enjoyed wonderful deserted sandy coves tucked away in the rocky coast. The going has become much easier now as ... http://beercyclers.com/archives/108 Hello folks, Sorry about the lack of updates but it just became too much of a chore having to look for a net connection when we had serious lazing around to do. I have continued writing the journal which will be dumped on the net at some point when I ... http://beercyclers.com/archives/107 We treated ourselves to a wonderful continental breakfast, excellent coffee, fresh orange juice and apricot marmalade on the first toast we've had since leaving England. The Spanish lads that had returned noisily to their tent at 5.30 in the morning slept fitfully as we packed up, carefully making as much noise ... http://beercyclers.com/archives/106 we took the main road out of Hondarribia and over Monte Jaizkebel. Being Sunday the traffic wasn't too horrendous, and the steady gradient of the highway made the long climb more manageable. Even so Kez was less than ecstatic about reaching her first proper mountain pass, demanding breathlessly that it ... http://beercyclers.com/archives/105 The night wasn't one of the best apart from teenager racket, the annoying noise of squeaky airbeds and snoring from tents right next to us, there was some very heavy rain that caused various commotions as campers tried to batten down their hatches at around 3am. We tried to lay ... http://beercyclers.com/archives/104 The cycling was lovely along the cliff tops this morning. Fantastic views of the Atlantic, craggy rock faces and striking violet blue flowers as we trundled towards Hendaye and Spain just beyond. We shared the road with quite a few racing cyclists out training in the hills and enjoyed a ... http://beercyclers.com/archives/103 We slogged our way up the rest of the hill and after a couple of tough miles I spotted a sign for a tourist office and left Kez at the top of the hill while I cruised down towards the coast to try and find a cycle route map. The ... http://beercyclers.com/archives/102 Traffic filled streets, fast roads, nasty hills, roundabouts and traffic lights for us today as we continued South. Fighting our way past queues of slow moving traffic was actually quite a refreshing change as we cycled through Bayonne and Biarritz. We stopped to unwind at a small park with a ... http://beercyclers.com/archives/101 An early departure saw us heading Southward again on fastish roads until Lac Marin D'Hossegor, where we took the 'Avenue Tour de Lac' down the West side of the lake. We began to wish we'd stuck to the main road as the avenue dipped and climbed its way through multiple ... http://beercyclers.com/archives/100 The morning was cloudy so we decided to press on today. Kez had a bit of a stressful time as our decamping disturbed a couple more spiders of the type that had ambushed her from the toilet roll yesterday. Luckily though I was available this time to leap on them ... http://beercyclers.com/archives/99