Category: 2024 Spain

Chinese Takeaway

Somehow, in all the messing about with my bicycle mixed in with occasional moments of trying to enjoy a holiday, I seem to have misplaced a set of reading glasses. I’ve got the pouch that should contain them but it’s

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Bike Part 3

For three days now, the front wheel of my bike has had a flat tyre, though for the middle of those days I hadn’t realised because we were just driving. This sorry episode began as a self inflicted wound caused

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An Unwelcome Surprise

We planned a lunch in one of the restaurants in Madrigal de la Vera. First, however, we needed some shopping. There is a Dia supermarket in Madrigal which is about 1 mile/1.5 km distant. We decided to use Shanks’s Pony

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Over the Gredos

Today we were leaving Salamanca and heading for Madrigal de la Vera, approximately a 3-hour journey of about 200kms. In between our start and end points lies the Sierra de Gredos, a mountain range which Frodo was going to have

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If it ain’t Broke …

My dear old, very skilful dad, a joiner by trade, imprinted on me a couple of phrases which I have always thought very notable: The man who never made a mistake never made anything; If it ain’t broke don’t fix

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First View of Salamanca

Salamanca sits at about 780m above sea level, some 200m lower than Burgos. Our overnight temperature dropped to about 10°C so, early in the morning our heating kicked in. This place more sensibly has a 10amp supply, though, so no

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Via Lerma to Salamanca

We’ve finished our five nights at Camping Fuentes Blancas in Burgos and it’s time to move on. We opted for five nights just to be able to relax after the journey to Spain but, in truth, four would probably have

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Burgos Revisited

Burgos is about 890m/2900ft above sea level. Overnight was cold. We were OK in bed but getting out of bed in the morning was a bit of a thermal shock. Francine got up to make tea and thinking, “bugger this,

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Cycle Shopping Trip

Just by the by, I’ll muse briefly about the Spanish time zone. Spain being on the same time zone as Germany is bonkers, as far west as it is. Being on summertime anyway, the UK is already an hour ahead

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Burgos

This is not our first visit to Burgos. We called in here before on one of our earlier return trips from Casa Libélula in Jalón. That was just a stop of a couple of hours; now we are here for

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