onlineamiga
Active Member
Hi,
I'm a British Expat living in the south of Spain.
I'm currently extremely keen on doing a tour from Gibraltar up to my home town in South Yorkshire where I am originally from.
I want to this mainly for personal reasons. I need a project, I need a mission. I want to achieve something.
Despite this, I am going to see if I can do it for charity. Mainly for two reasons. If people are willing to give money to charity because Im wanting to do this, then I dont see any harm in that. Also getting excused from my job for nearly a month would be far easier if im pushing the chairty side of things. Rather than just wanting to go off on an extended Jolly.
I am an amature cyclist. I have never even done touring before. I dont even know how to put a tent up. But every single bit of me is just craving to go out and give this a go. I've been doing full day long cycles and have done over 100km trips round the mountains of andalucia on a Rockrider 5.1 mountain bike.
So I'm now going to ask a barrage of questions.
I have been looking at the route to take, and have rpetty much worked it out. A huge thanks to Crazy guy on a bike. He did St Malo to Gibraltar, and his blog was excellent reading. Im going to pretty much follow his route through Spain. France will change slightly as Im going to to Calais and to dover and then up the UK.
If anyone has any advice of areas to avoid. I remember once getting a hotel just outside Lille and the place was hurrendous. Especially going solo, I want to avoid the dodgy areas!
Im quite limited on what bike I can get down here in the south of Spain. Theres no Dawes stockists. I dont expect to do the tour on the Rockrider 5.1. The Decathlon Riverside 7 is looking interesting. Mainly because Decathlon are all over Spain, France and the UK. If something went wrong with the bike, then there should be a decathlon nearby for parts? Just a thought. Theres a place that stocks the Raleigh Royal here too. Im wanting something thats basically going to get me there and not die. My skills of bike mechanics is very poor! Im an IT Technican by trade, so technically minded rather than mechanical!
Im going to get a tent and even head off on the rockrider and try and do a couple 2 /3 day tours round here, to get myself used to tenting etc. And make sure that I dont come up against any problems, with myself, mental state etc.
But I really want to do this. I cant stop thinking about it. Any advice anyone can give, would be great. I've been searching through the forums. I expect to wild camp/camp site / the odd B&B on route.
Thanks guys!
I'm a British Expat living in the south of Spain.
I'm currently extremely keen on doing a tour from Gibraltar up to my home town in South Yorkshire where I am originally from.
I want to this mainly for personal reasons. I need a project, I need a mission. I want to achieve something.
Despite this, I am going to see if I can do it for charity. Mainly for two reasons. If people are willing to give money to charity because Im wanting to do this, then I dont see any harm in that. Also getting excused from my job for nearly a month would be far easier if im pushing the chairty side of things. Rather than just wanting to go off on an extended Jolly.
I am an amature cyclist. I have never even done touring before. I dont even know how to put a tent up. But every single bit of me is just craving to go out and give this a go. I've been doing full day long cycles and have done over 100km trips round the mountains of andalucia on a Rockrider 5.1 mountain bike.
So I'm now going to ask a barrage of questions.
I have been looking at the route to take, and have rpetty much worked it out. A huge thanks to Crazy guy on a bike. He did St Malo to Gibraltar, and his blog was excellent reading. Im going to pretty much follow his route through Spain. France will change slightly as Im going to to Calais and to dover and then up the UK.
If anyone has any advice of areas to avoid. I remember once getting a hotel just outside Lille and the place was hurrendous. Especially going solo, I want to avoid the dodgy areas!
Im quite limited on what bike I can get down here in the south of Spain. Theres no Dawes stockists. I dont expect to do the tour on the Rockrider 5.1. The Decathlon Riverside 7 is looking interesting. Mainly because Decathlon are all over Spain, France and the UK. If something went wrong with the bike, then there should be a decathlon nearby for parts? Just a thought. Theres a place that stocks the Raleigh Royal here too. Im wanting something thats basically going to get me there and not die. My skills of bike mechanics is very poor! Im an IT Technican by trade, so technically minded rather than mechanical!
Im going to get a tent and even head off on the rockrider and try and do a couple 2 /3 day tours round here, to get myself used to tenting etc. And make sure that I dont come up against any problems, with myself, mental state etc.
But I really want to do this. I cant stop thinking about it. Any advice anyone can give, would be great. I've been searching through the forums. I expect to wild camp/camp site / the odd B&B on route.
Thanks guys!