My south of Europe trip is now over…
I left the UK on the 17th of February and drove straight to Valença, in Portugal. From there I started cycling south on the EuroVelo 1 route. As I was sleeping in my campervan at night, I had to cycle both ways, i.e. away from the van and then back to the van, on the same day, so when I made 30 Km of “progress” in a day, I cycled in fact 60 Km on that day. This meant that in Portugal I cycled about 2,500 Km counting both ways.
When I got to Spain I did the same, but going north towards Irun in the Basque Country. In Spain the EuroVelo 1 is slightly longer, so I did roughly 2,900 Km on my bike.
The original plan was to attempt to cycle the EuroVelo 1 in France as well (which in France is known as the “La Vélodyssée“), but I quickly realised that this would not be possible in the time I had left, given I had to be back to the UK on the 5th of June for personal reasons. Yet, I still managed to cycled about 130 Km in France just for fun (Île de Ré and La Rochelle).
If you would like to see the posts and videos I recorded along the way the best places are Instagram, Facebook or YouTube. The EuroVelo 1 YouTube playlist is below:
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I cycled thousands of kilometers on my bikes and I am nothing special, other than the special any human being is. My most notable cycling experiences are the French Way of the Camino de Santiago in 2015 (~1,000 Km), the Portuguese Way in 2019 (~650 Km), the Via Francigena to Rome in 2016 (~2,000 Km), the Brazilian “Caminho da Fé” (or Faith’s Way) in 2017 (~600 Km) and the Via Beata in 2021 (765 Km), but there have been many shorter rides or cycling micro-adventures over the years.
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