A long weekend bikepacking with friends in the Cambrian Desert of Wales
Cycle Touring Archive
Vitoria Streets
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men… a change of plans and a spot of street photography from Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Sierra de Gredos
Quiet trails from Avila through the Sierra de Gredos mountains .
Salamanca etc
From León to Salamanca and Avila via the Via de la Plata… some riding, lots of street photography (sorry)…
A spot of Camino Francés
Burgos, León, and a few days trundling west on the Camino Francés.
Basque Trails
A few days of sublime trails in the company of friends.
Bits of Bilbao and Some Other Places
The beginnings of what will hopefully be a satisfying trundle through the mountains of north and central Spain.
On a Northerly Heading
A ride on tracks and trails through the empty heart of Wales.
Bikepacking with the Fuji X-System
An overview of the Fuji X-series camera gear I use for bikepacking adventures at home and overseas. Primarily motivated by street photography, my bag currently contains an X100F or an X-Pro 2 with a small selection of prime lenses.
Mostly Buenos Aires
Some street photography from Buenos Aires and Villa Mercedes to wrap up seven months of bicycle travel from Peru.
The End of the Road
A medium-sized provincial town deep in the heart of Argentina, about 700km west of Buenos Aires, may seem like an odd place to end a bicycle journey. Ten years ago however, on my very first day in Argentina, having crossed the border from Chile all the way down south in Patagonia, I met a couple of friends, Juan and Elisa, who were also travelling the area, albeit not by bike. It is in large part …
Córdoba Streets
Thought I’d sling up a few impressions of Córdoba city. It’s alright; colourful, busy, good icecream. I’ll say goodbye to friends here this evening over beers, and will set sail for the final few hundred km to my other friends in Villa Mercedes on Monday. It looks like it could be a damp affair; winters here are cool and dry but the summer season is hot and very rainy with lots of thunderstorms. It would …
Cerro Aspero
To my mind one of the greatest things about a bicycle is the ease with which it enables new friendships and shared adventures. The weekend just past I took off to the sierras in the southwest of Córdoba province with new friends from the local biking community for a side-trip of a couple of days and nights. The area is fabulous for exploring on two wheels with plenty of empty space and steep terrain. It …
To Córdoba
There will always be more to do in the Andes but having comprehensively ridden my bike all over from the north to the far south it seemed like a good idea, when thinking about this journey, to head east away from the Andes and have a look at the sierras of Córdoba province; for a number of years it has been a spot on the map that left me wondering how it would be to …
The Green Room
The change in riding environment has been so rapid, and so profound that I still have not fully rationalised it. The memories of the months spent on the high, cold, austere altiplano amongst the volcanos and salt pans feel as if they belong to a different life. The transition from parched desert to dripping cloud forest happened within the space of a mere 40km or so. Sitting in the perpetual sunshine of Cafayate it was …