It's Never too early for Sangria!

[dyzio]

Few pics form this years euro trip.
We rode down to Portsmouth and got the ferry to Santander. From there we rode towards Malaga and then to Barcelona, returning to Santander via the Pyrenees (\\:D/). 3 weeks, 4k miles, big grins

Waiting for the ferry:

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Sunny Santander:

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Heading towards Burgos:

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Made it to Malaga:

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Gibraltar:

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[dyzio]

Ronda road:

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Heading towards Barcelona, so many roads...

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Love San Miguel :D

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Hitching a lift :D
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Number of bike's and scooters in Barcelona (any major city in fact) was unbelievable:

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Bull fight ring in Barca:

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We went to see the F1 race as well:

Kovalainen:
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Lewis:
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Vettel:
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Waiting for Robert:
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Best job in the world:
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[dyzio]

Schumacher
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Mercedes crew working out :)
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Hamilton pushing Vettel
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Massa oopsy :D
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[dyzio]

After Barcelona we headed back towards Santander on the N260, ended up in San Sebastian by coincidence for 2 days, glad we did.

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Andorra:
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Food was amazing :)
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San Sebastian
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And that's it. Visit Spain, it's beautiful!
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[Binky]

Stunning photos. How were the roads compared to others in Europe you've done Dyzio?

Did you just come back from Santander again? I really fancy going to Spain on the bike... Jealous!!

[Geodude]

Looks like you had a cracking time. Really fancy doing some thing like this one day. How hard was the planning and doing of your trip, anything you would recommend or do differently etc.?

[andrewsmith]

nice trip mate

Is the Falco still look like its going?

[dyzio]

Stunning photos. How were the roads compared to others in Europe you've done Dyzio?

Did you just come back from Santander again? I really fancy going to Spain on the bike... Jealous!!

Came back beginning of the month, but I didn't have all the pics on my camera. Rode down to Portsmouth (ouch), done a lap of Spain, ferry back to Portsmouth and ride up to Aberdeen (ouch).

Roads are amazing, I mean the N roads. they look like they've been laid out yesterday, slow corners, fast corners everything, I can't remember how often I've tried to switch to 7th gear :lol:
Heaven is where the Spanish build the roads :)

Looks like you had a cracking time. Really fancy doing some thing like this one day. How hard was the planning and doing of your trip, anything you would recommend or do differently etc.?
I've done a lot of planning for my last year's trip, unnecessarily as it turned out.

This year's planning was quite short, buy the ferry tickets, buy a map and have a rough idea where you want to go.
We've set up routes on the day before or even in the morning, campsites were easy to find and had lots of free places - late May.
And stay off the motorways unless you need to to big miles - Valencia to Vinaros is about 100 miles - it took us about 200 miles to get there :D

Would I do anything differently - yes, stay there! ;)
To be honest 3 weeks was a bit too much and Spain is huge, but I'm happy having done the trip.

[Geodude]

Came back beginning of the month, but I didn't have all the pics on my camera. Rode down to Portsmouth (ouch), done a lap of Spain, ferry back to Portsmouth and ride up to Aberdeen (ouch).

Roads are amazing, I mean the N roads. they look like they've been laid out yesterday, slow corners, fast corners everything, I can't remember how often I've tried to switch to 7th gear :lol:
Heaven is where the Spanish build the roads :)


I've done a lot of planning for my last year's trip, unnecessarily as it turned out.

This year's planning was quite short, buy the ferry tickets, buy a map and have a rough idea where you want to go.
We've set up routes on the day before or even in the morning, campsites were easy to find and had lots of free places - late May.
And stay off the motorways unless you need to to big miles - Valencia to Vinaros is about 100 miles - it took us about 200 miles to get there :D

Would I do anything differently - yes, stay there! ;)
To be honest 3 weeks was a bit too much and Spain is huge, but I'm happy having done the trip.

Cheers for the reply. So get on bike and go is the best thing to do really then.

[dyzio]

Depends what you want to do, look up roads worth riding. Find out about towns etc if you fancy a bit of sightseeing. Once there you'll get into a rhythm after 2-3 days.

[Geodude]

Thanks again dyzio. Hmm time for a bit of research and saving :)

[danf1234]

Now that looks like a proper bike trip!

[Bibio]

looks like you had a cracking time dyzio. me jealous naaahhhh :-)

one day..................... maybe

[fenjer]

where was my invite!! ;)

looks like a cracking trip love, great piccies too!

[Bluefish]

You lucky lucky bar steward, cracking last photo, thought the rain in Spain stayed mainly on the plain ;)

[dyzio]

Is the Falco still look like its going?

I think so, need to test ride the bike's I've got in mind first but we just don't get along as good as I would like to.

where was my invite!! ;)


Next year, around July, Italy? ;)

[fenjer]

Next year, around July, Italy? ;)

Hmmm....