Author Archive | Friedel

Show 7: Portugal

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We hope you aren’t swamped with all the new goodies on the site because we have just one more thing to share with you before we cycle off into the Spanish hills…. our Portugal radio show! This time we have an interview with a Belgian family who we met in Beja. They share some thoughts […] Read More »

Videos from a glacier

Well, we’ve been very busy cycling the last few days and had a big backlog of things to put online! In the last day we’ve added a week of posts to the site and also managed to upload a couple videos to share with you. They are both from a day we spent in a […] Read More »

39km Paradanta to Pião

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Attention cyclists: the town of Covilhã can be dangerous to your health! After a morning hiding under our tarp in the Serra da Gardunha mountains, waiting for the rain to stop, and then a few hours spent online in the town of Fundão, we had not expected such a tough end to the day as […] Read More »

51km Castelo Branco to Paradanta

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Our “to do” list was growing rather large so this morning we set off to get a few things done: first a shopping trip to refill our panniers. Peanut butter, check. Bananas, check. Large quantities of cheese, check. Chorizo sausage, check. Once we got everything needed to sustain two hungry cyclists and managed to stuff […] Read More »

52km Nisa to Castelo Branco

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Quiet roads led us to the town of Castelo Branco, where we stopped a bit earlier than normal for an Easter Monday lunch and, less excitingly, to wash our growing pile of dirty clothes from a couple days of wild camping. The route leading to Castelo Branco was slightly hard work – a 2.5km downhill […] Read More »