It looks pretty good.
Screen shots of the cover, along with the areas covered.
Along with just a sample from the section on the ever popular Pyrenees:
Are all the routes perfect? No, of course not. Not least as the magazine is limited for space and has to cater for all sorts of skill levels, confidences, time available, riding preferences and machines ridden. Are they good enough for a holiday, requiring nothing more than a download to a gps device and (hopefully) a bit of imagination? Most definitely, yes.
Have they maybe missed that cracking road between A and B and on to C? Quite possibly; you’ll maybe find it (or another one) when you go. Be sure to let the magazine and UKGSer know when you trip over it, finding it so good you just had to ride it twice.
Will it answer the not infrequent, “Me and me 7 mates is off to Spain Tuesday for six days we want great twisties noes mototorways” type appeals, usually posted at midnight on Monday? Indeed it should. Will the bod and his seven mates trouble themselves long enough to look at it? Time will tell how arsed they can be.
For a couple of quid spent in WHSmith, is it worth it? Again, definitely yes. Hats off to RiDE for at least trying to offer up a nicely presented article, making it reasonably easy for anyone to hit some decent enough roads in a very large country.
Here’s the link to the website and those all important gps downloads / route previews in Google maps:
https://www.ride.co.uk/routes-1/ride-guide-to-spain-and-portugal
Not least, before anyone moans....