Author: Garry

Garry’s original bike was a Marin Palisades Trail which he brought in 1992 as a mountain bike.

In 2002 when Garry gave up Smoking and started to cycle a bit more he added the racks and panniers and made it into more of a hybrid bike when he went on his first long distance cycle ride (click here to read more), and the rest is history! It’s still in constant use and is ridden nearly every day!

Garry McGivern Travelsonabike2 Spain 2015 bicycle touring photos. Photographs that Garry has taken while on his bicycle tour of Spain and Portugal in May 2015. It had been 18 long months since Garry had been on a long-distance cycle tour.

Having spent that time in and out of the hospital having injections and operations on his back! But there was still no real improvement, and now his specialist was telling him that he may never work again! So, Garry decided that maybe a long bike ride would sort it out, after all, it did once before! These are the photographs from the Spanish leg of Garry’s tour.

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Spain 2015 Bicycle Touring Photos Flickr Photo Album

Garry McGivern’s Spanish Photos

(pictures added to the website this month)

Passepartout at our first big climb in Spain the first of many

The long winding road ahead

My second big climb on my first day

In a canyon on the N232 following the rio Ebro

The rio Ebro

On the plateau at the top of Puerto de La Mazzorra after a 1000 metre climb

Snow capped mountains in the distance viewed from the top of Puerto de La Mazzorra

Garry’s new friend Julio

Church along the road near Puerto de La Mazzorra

Thought I was back in England for a time

Castillo de Penafiel

Sagovia

The aqueduct at Segovia

Balloons over Sagovia in the morning

One of the many storks that i saw

The walled city of Avila

Part 1. Bored coming up yet another hill out of Avila

Part 2. After reaching the top a big down before another big climb

Part 3. At the top of Puerto de La Paramera

Toledo

The carillion clock in plaza Mayor Real Ciudad part 1

The carillion clock in plaza Mayor Real Ciudad part 2

The carillion clock in plaza Mayor Real Ciudad part 3

Storks in the Vale de Alcudia they seem to nest anywhere and everywhere

View from my hotel window in Montoro

The castle at Alcaudete

Los Bermejales Reservoir in Arenas del Rey

Twisting road

The twisting road down

Gibraltar

Garry on Gibraltar

You know when your fairly high up when you look down on wind turbines

Cathedral at Jerez

Tree lined street in Jerez

Statue in Jerez

Sherry barrels

Tio Pepi man on a hillside

Wide avenue on the way into Seville

Empresarial Soland some huge solar panel

The little ferry at Ayamonte that takes you across to Portugal

San Simon in the bay of Vigo

Forest fires across the bay of Vigo

Helicopter dropping its load of water on the forest fires at the Bay of Vigo

View of the church from my hotel window in Vilalba

Camino de Santiago sign

The beach at Moledo

The motorway up above that just carves a path through the landscape

Rocks at San Antolin

The Rio de Tina Mayor as it goes out to sea

Bridge at Ribadesella

One of Garry’s favourite signs, a good sign that it’s nearly the end of a climb

Lush green mountains of northern Spain

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