Next up, crossing the Marquesado Plateau between La Calahorra and the Sierra de Baza. I wasn’t looking forward to this leg, I’d thought it w

went to dab with my right foot, but nothing was there, it was a twenty foot drop down to a barranco. Me and Bay fell sideways down the

The days off also gave me time to do shopping and prepare myself mentally for the return to being alone in the mountains. I was enjoying my

The terrain varied from very rocky and steep, to meadow with grazing cattle, to mountain springs wetting the soil making it a slippery uphil

Flies! Flies had been a problem the last few days when travelling slowly. They would congregate around my sweaty head and face, eventually y

So I’d ridden/pushed-up the mountain visible from Nigϋelas, to 1200 metres then along the ridgeline of the higher peak behind it to around 1

Nigϋelas is perched on the very edge of a ravine, it looks like some of the houses will fall off one day! And the views had improved with mo

Walking down the rambla, with the stream, the varied flora and fauna and rugged mountains either side, was always interesting, I never grew

The annual Formula One shutdown is a two-week closure for all teams, where no work, regarding the cars, can be carried out. Currently I’m on

Geologically, I find these mountains very interesting even beguiling, the uplift caused by the African tectonic plate pushing into the Euras