We start the route, as always, and we will make you some destination recommendations to enjoy this time of year, so fantastic to enjoy pedaling. It's time to explore the fantastic beech and oak forests or the banks of our rivers.
We have with us Anna Carrera, Brand Manager of Activo and Natura of the Catalan Tourism Agency who is going to tell us how they are in charge of promoting the bicycle tourism in Catalonia.
We introduce you to Juan Manuel Buzón Cabrera an Andalusian cyclist friend who now lives in Switzerland and who will tell us why he likes bike trips.
We bring you a book “From Alcarria to the Himalayas” and we are lucky to chat with its author Miguel Ángel Díaz Martínez to tell us things about the book and the great journey it tells.

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These are the contents of today's program:

  • 2:39 –We are in autumn, an ideal time to enjoy cycling in Spain, it is not cold yet and although the days are getting shorter the light is magical. The beech and deciduous forests, especially in the north, are at their best, ochres, reds and yellows dress nature in color. An ideal time to tour the Bertiz Manor, Irati o Royal Fifth in Navarra, or the Plazaola Greenways and the Bidasoa if you want a gentler itinerary. Another fantastic destination is the Fageda d'en Jorda in the La Garrotxa Natural Park in Girona, very close to another Greenway that we love the Carrilet, from Olot to Girona. We are going to the other end of the Peninsula, to Galicia, where large forests such as the Fraga de Catasós in Pontevedra or the Fraga do Eume in La Coruña will delight us with a beautiful landscape at this time. The list of places would be very long: the Jungle de Oza in Huesca, the Sierra de Cameros in La Rioja, the Collados del Asón Natural Park in Cantabria, the Ambroz valley in Cáceres with its fantastic chestnut grove or Muniellos in Asturias. If you want something closer to Madrid we also have a choice , he South East Regional Park in Madrid touring the plains of Jarama, Tajuña and Tajo enjoying yellow ash and poplar trees and the route CYCLAMADRIDOr the Abedular de Somosierra and Horcajuelo de la Sierra, a beautiful forest of birch, sessile oak, mustache and hazel trees as well as a forest of holly trees. What are you waiting for? Choose your route and let's pedal!!
  • 06:00 – Anna Carrera tells us how they are developing bicycle tourism from the Catalan Tourism Agency. The great variety of landscapes stands out and also the great diversity of different audiences who are looking for different products and where the presence of international clients has been very important for many years.
  • 22:45 – What better way to introduce you to Juanma Buzón than to read the presentation he gave us for the program: “Addicted to nature with a slow pace and insatiable learner. Environmentalist and Forest Engineer by training, committed to the conservation of biodiversity as a tool to repair our damaged planet. Although in permanent search, I find myself getting lost in unknown landscapes, and if it is pedaling, the better. In my memories, my grandfather, riding his old bicycle with rods as his only transportation. Now, I live in Switzerland, where I practice his example every day in a place that invites calm and contemplation. My purpose, the famous phrase by Albert Einstein that hangs in my living room: "Life is like riding a bicycle, to maintain balance, you have to keep pedaling".
  • 38:19 – With a bicycle called Kora and four pieces of equipment, Miguel Ángel Díaz left Spain at the beginning of 1996 with the intention of pedaling to the Himalayas. Without rushing, taking notes and notes, taking photographs and always open to the chance of fleeting encounters and friendships. Shepherds, customs officers, police, waiters, carpet sellers, Tibetan monks, highwaymen, every day they found some character on the road with whom to talk for a while, as did countless travelers of all nationalities found in bazaars and mosques, in hills or desert places, which became companions on the road for a while. There were a total of more than twelve thousand kilometers and seven months of experiences, which Miguel Ángel Díaz tells us about in a delicious book “From the Alcarria to the Himalayas”.
  • We hope you enjoy the program!!