A window to the world of bicycle travel and cycle tourism.
Traveling by bicycle returns us to a more human pace, a calm alternative to exploring the landscape and talking with the locals.
Take a vacation by bike and pedal.
We love traveling by bike, getting to know new places, their nature, culture, gastronomy and most importantly the people we meet along the route.
We hear from many cycle travelers who have had to change their route and, in many cases, return to Spain due to problems related to border closures due to the coronavirus crisis. If you are en route, evaluate based on your finances, the information you have, the duration of the visa in the country you are in and your real possibilities of maintaining the trip. We allow ourselves to make some recommendations after speaking with several cycle travelers
5 OF MARCH Nico Merino embarked on a bike trip from Gijón to an orphanage they were building in Tala, Kenya. Nico will talk to us about that trip and his next adventure in his presentation in Rutas Pangea. .
OCTOBER 24TH. Javier Bañón Izu, author of the Bikepacking Manual published by Ediciones Desnivel will be at Rutas Pangea on Thursday, October 24 at 20 p.m. to talk to us about bikepacking, equipment, bikes and share his extensive experience in the world of bikepacking. We recommend you visit their YouTube channel, an inexhaustible source of information about bikepacking.
JUNE 27TH. Laura Rincón wanted to take a bicycle trip. She chose Southeast Asia and until she had decided she did not tell her closest circle. She didn't want them to tell her that she was crazy, that how she was going to go alone, that it was very dangerous... She decided and left, 3 months cycling through Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, at 25 years old and the world to discover.
JUNE 7TH. Laura Martínez Calderón has been traveling the world for 20 years, the last 10 by bicycle. Laura has captured her experience in a very personal book, she tells us how she began her bicycle trip, first traveling through Asia, changing plans during the trip and entering Africa. A fresh look that perfectly reflects what her journey has been like with difficult moments but with many more moments of happiness, of sharing along the way.
I want to share with you this video recorded last year. We walked the Santander Mediterranean Greenway Natural Trail several times from Soria to Hontoria del Pinar in Burgos. We were fortunate to have our friends from Droneartists join us and make this video that we love.
February is leaving, the month of March begins and plans and events that have to do with cycling and bike trips are accumulating, prepare your agenda.
By bike to the Valencian Community with Manuela Soares from Mediterranian Bike Tours. Chemi from Viajando con Gofio tells us about the great trip that is being marked with Marta pedaling a Trike from the Canary Islands to Norway. We asked Raymon from Another Life, is it possible for him to get off the bike to tell us how his bike tour through Spain is going to promote his book Take Me on a Trip. And we end the program with some book recommendations in which we pay tribute to publishers and stores that are committed to this pedal-powered literature.
Fran from Snail Touring explains how to carry our luggage on the bike. At this time when many of us are thinking about our next bike trips this summer. María de Zima Project from the Pedaleo Solar project tells us how they are touring Spain at the moment. Isra, one of the halves of Ciclismo Sin Prisa, a group dedicated to Cycling without a time trial, without marks, without competition... Without rush. We finish with TourVial, one of the 2 Winners of the AMBE 2018 Awards for Best Private Initiative. Javier Pascual will tell us what the project consists of.
After the presentation of the bicycle sector in figures and the AMBE awards, we listened to Gregorio Serrano, Director of the DGT, at the awards ceremony and Javier Villalba from the DGT talking to us about the State Strategic Plan for Bicycles. We are going on the route again to the Santander Mediterranean Greenway, but this time we are staying in Burgos, in the Arlanza Valley to tell you the story of the Sad Hill cemetery. Mythical setting of the movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Javi Collado tells us what the Second Bicycle Week will be like in Tarancón, Cuenca. We chat again with Didac Illa, a digital nomad by bicycle who has begun his trip around the world by bicycle with no return date.
Traveling Slowly takes you this week to New Aquitaine, a French region that awaits you with a lot to offer to enjoy your cycling holidays. We spoke with Palma Chillón who, in addition to traveling by bike, works at the Faculty of Sports Sciences at the University of Granada. For the last 10 years, her research has focused on "promoting active travel (mainly walking and cycling) to school and work. Elena Krause, whom we were fortunate enough to meet in Valencia Ciutat Amable, talks to us about cycle tourism from the point of view of ecology, and she defines herself as a very convinced environmentalist. And we will end with a great event around cycling that is being held this weekend in Girona, Sea Otter Europe.
