Our route this week is a great itinerary, well known among lovers of bicycle routes, The Silver Way, we will have with us José Miguel Palazuelo from the Cooperation Network of Cities on the Silver Route.

We chat with Alexander Pereda, Founder of The GISteria, a company specialized in designing personalized maps to learn about one of their latest works, a map of the Palencia Romanesque by bike.

Trixi is a company present in Barcelona and Madrid, Michal He tells us what they do and how they are experiencing the expansion of the bike sharing projects in the city of Madrid.

We were lucky enough to be able to interview Juanito Oiarzabal in a cafeteria in Madrid to talk to us about a project that we already told you about in Viajando Despacio in an interview with Pepe de Safari Bike Africa. A Kilimanjaro mountain bike route. We apologize for the sound quality but we think it is very interesting.

And as we told you last week, we accompany Alvaro Neil’s most emblematic landmarks, the Bicycle on the last stage of his great journey. On Sunday he finished his trip around the world in Oviedo after 13 years of cycling through 110 countries.

Almost a year ago I was not able to be present at the arrival in Madrid of another great cycle traveler, Javier Colorado, I find myself in southern Africa, very far from here. But she is here, I didn't want to miss her.

It was a very exciting moment, we would love to be able to convey to you at least a little of the magic we found at the end party of this great trip.

In addition, we have brought two signed biciclown books, we will do a raffle on Facebook Traveling Slowly, to give them away. We will inform you, now you can listen to the program.

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These are the contents of the latest program:

3: 20 - The Vía de la Plata is a fantastic itinerary. José Miguel Palazuelo has been the president of the Cooperation Network since December 2015. His objective as head of the Cooperation Network is to continue consolidating the Vía de la Plata Route as a quality tourist destination, both nationally and internationally, promoting its heritage. historical and its natural aspects, and increasing the offer of active tourism. A large tourist circuit articulated over almost 1.000 km, around an axis of cities with important historical heritage, a set of excellent natural and landscape resources, and the various local cultures present in the territory.

Currently, the Network is made up of 27 municipalities located throughout the four autonomous communities through which this historic itinerary runs: Andalusia, Extremadura, Castilla y León, and Asturias. These are the municipalities that are part of the network: Gijón, Llanera, Ribera de Arriba, Morcín, Riosa, Mieres, Aller, Lena, La Pola de Gordón, León, La Bañeza, Benavente, Zamora, Béjar, Guijuelo, Baños de Montemayor , Hervás, Plasencia, Casar de Cáceres, Mérida, Los Santos de Maimona, Zafra, Calzadilla de los Barros, Fuente de Cantos, Montemolín, Carmona and Seville. We love this route and here you can find all the necessary information to do the Silver Route by bike.
20: 05 -The Gisteria makes personalized and affordable maps. They focus their services on the world of publishing, advertising, tourism, sports, and communication. Today he tells us about a project that arises from the Jesús Calleja, Flying I go. Make a bicycle map of the Palencia Romanesque. The result is Pedaling the Palentino Romanesque, a map focused on the bicycle tourism for an exceptional region.
31: 18 - Trixi is a company that organizes guided bike tours around Madrid. We chatted with Michal Zasowski about his services and also how the new arrivals of free floating companies like Madrid will affect bike rental companies in Madrid. ofo y Bikes, taking into account that Trixi is the flag in Madrid of Donkey Bikes.
43: 53 - A pleasant chat with Juanito Oiarzabal in a Madrid cafe talking about Tanzania, bicycle trips and mountains in general. A true adventure in Africa.
50: 08 - We share the arrival of Alvaro Neil, the Biciclown to Oviedo, the end point of his incredible trip. Very emotional moments that we want to share with you today although next week we will do a special program in Traveling Slowly dedicated to Alvaro Neil.
We hope you enjoy the program!!