Pyrenees 2018

Day 5 – Vielha to Ripoll

I don’t really have many photos from this day’s riding, I took quite a few, but there are not many that are worth posting. The one thing that stood out from today’s ride was that I crossed into France at the beginning of the journey and it was uncannily similar
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Pyrenees 2018

A ‘Stroll’ into Vielha

At the end of the second full day staying in Vielha I arranged the bike route so that I would have time to wander down into town. I am staying at the Parador which is up a hill out of the main town, the road does not have a pavement
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Pyrenees 2018

Days 3 & 4 – Vielha

I have discovered that trying to keep a blog updated at the same time as riding approximately 200 miles a day, dealing with a few work matters, selecting/re-sizing photos and planning the route for the following day is actually not that easy! So based on the fact that I have
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Pyrenees 2018

Day 2 – 8 Cols in 1 day

Last night after I had written day 1’s blog turned out to be a little more eventful, there was an almighty thunderstorm…in the end I had to close the shutters because the lightning and rain lashing against the windows was keeping me awake. It was a bit of a late
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