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Reaching Italy. Genoa, the Apennines and onto Bologna. Someone give me a new tyre!

Marseille, meeting friends and the French Riviera

Jul 24, 2015
9 min

Marseille, meeting friends and the French Riviera

Having booked into the hotel, I thought I might go out outside to explore the surrounding neighbourhoods and see what the city was actually like, having heard so many mixed opinions about it. The thing is, although I do have an incredible urge to go out and see a place when I do finally arrive there, I’m honestly almost always quite literally shattered and I don’t always realise this until I actually start doing a little walking. Although it was a hotel, they had a dormitory

Southern France and Marseille. Equipment breakdowns and sleepless nights

Jul 18, 2015
10 min

Southern France and Marseille. Equipment breakdowns and sleepless nights

After passing through the small border town, I spent the next half an hour, and to my utter surprise and relief, gliding downhill all the way into Le Boulou. I stopped at a fruit and vegetable stall along the way and bought a rather mushy apple from a lady that fit the arrogant French stereotype perfectly, though I haven’t actually met many of them thus far. The rest of the morning was spent cycling along huge wide roads with beautiful backdrops into the town of Perpignan whe

$Arriving back in France. Five km\h is a good speed$

Jul 13, 2015
7 min

Arriving back in France. Five km\h is a good speed

Although I really enjoyed my time in Barcelona, I felt the same way I always feel when in a large city. I felt frustration; with having to share everything with so many people from pavements and the beach to shops, restaurants and even the roads. With most of my time being spent out in the country where people are few and far between, I do tend to get annoyed rather quickly. Apart from this aspect though, it is a very nice place, if a little bit of a tourist trap. I’ll stop m

Barcelona. It's a big city

Jul 10, 2015
1 min

Barcelona. It's a big city

Barcelona is a gigantic city and I stayed for two days. I met up with a girl I met way back in Salamanca but she was going to see the running of the bulls in Pamplona, something I wouldn't mind seeing too. I saw lots of sights like la Sagrada Familia which really is as awesome to look at as people say. I enjoyed some good food, cycled 7km's up into the hills surrounding the city and had amazing views. This was quite hard work even though I was on a normal bicycle but then I d

Entering my final Spanish province. Catalunya and Barcelona

Jul 8, 2015
10 min

Entering my final Spanish province. Catalunya and Barcelona

As is becoming the norm, I only expected to be in Valencia for a couple of days but alas, I ended up staying four. It was becoming quite common for me to pay for only one night, end up going out with some people from the hostel and wake up bleary eyed in the morning and stumble still half asleep down to the reception and ask for another night. I would have left after the third day but I found I had some kind of spot on my lower left eye lid, my good eye actually ,and upon rea