Is now available on the magazine’s website.
https://www.ride.co.uk
Here is how to use it:
Click (or tap if you are on an iPad) on the drawing of Spain shown below:
This will open up a page showing where the 60 or so route suggestions are. Click on the town that is closest to where you’ll be:
For example, if you think you’d like to take the ferry across to Santander but your time in Spain is limited, you might decide that in or around Laredo is a good idea. Click on Laredo, which will open up ideas on towns to stay in or near (Laredo, Potes and Zarautz) and a suggestion for a presumably ‘biker friendly’ hotel in each:
Scroll down a bit and you’ll get ideas on things to see and do, when you are not hooning your awesome around the twisities:
Scroll down a bit further and you’ll find all the route suggestions for the town you have chosen, a pretty good description of what you might expect to experience and a rough map on the sort of direction the routes take. All are downloadable as a gpx file:
The gpx files download well. Here’s the ‘Potes Triangle’, downloaded and opened in the Scenic app:
Do you want a longer ‘touring’ holiday or go to one of the Spanish rounds of the MotoGP circus and want a route idea on how to get there? Then click on the boxes. A for the MotoGP’s and B for touring suggestions:
“What will the weather be like, mate?’ Yes, that’s answered, too:
Not surprisingly, it’s ‘kin hot in the height of summer. Equally unsurprising is that it’s ‘kin cold in the middle of winter, unless you head towards the south.... and yup, they ski in the winter in the mountains, which means it must snow quite a lot over quite a wide area and yup, snow can be ‘iffy’.
In short, anyone and everyone now has a the answer to “Me and my six mates want to do Spain. We have a week and want places to see and do, great roads, no motorways and places to stay”. Yes, you’ll have to work at it a bit but it’s not that hard. Click around, you can’t break it. Is the hotel full on Booking.com? Try ringing them up or just send them an email. Don’t speak Spanish? Run the words through Google translate. In other words, try..... and above all, use some imagination; it’s why you bought an Adventure bike..... RiDE and this thread have told you how. The rest is up to you.
PS I did this on an iPad, it really is that easy.
https://www.ride.co.uk
Here is how to use it:
Click (or tap if you are on an iPad) on the drawing of Spain shown below:
This will open up a page showing where the 60 or so route suggestions are. Click on the town that is closest to where you’ll be:
For example, if you think you’d like to take the ferry across to Santander but your time in Spain is limited, you might decide that in or around Laredo is a good idea. Click on Laredo, which will open up ideas on towns to stay in or near (Laredo, Potes and Zarautz) and a suggestion for a presumably ‘biker friendly’ hotel in each:
Scroll down a bit and you’ll get ideas on things to see and do, when you are not hooning your awesome around the twisities:
Scroll down a bit further and you’ll find all the route suggestions for the town you have chosen, a pretty good description of what you might expect to experience and a rough map on the sort of direction the routes take. All are downloadable as a gpx file:
The gpx files download well. Here’s the ‘Potes Triangle’, downloaded and opened in the Scenic app:
Do you want a longer ‘touring’ holiday or go to one of the Spanish rounds of the MotoGP circus and want a route idea on how to get there? Then click on the boxes. A for the MotoGP’s and B for touring suggestions:
“What will the weather be like, mate?’ Yes, that’s answered, too:
Not surprisingly, it’s ‘kin hot in the height of summer. Equally unsurprising is that it’s ‘kin cold in the middle of winter, unless you head towards the south.... and yup, they ski in the winter in the mountains, which means it must snow quite a lot over quite a wide area and yup, snow can be ‘iffy’.
In short, anyone and everyone now has a the answer to “Me and my six mates want to do Spain. We have a week and want places to see and do, great roads, no motorways and places to stay”. Yes, you’ll have to work at it a bit but it’s not that hard. Click around, you can’t break it. Is the hotel full on Booking.com? Try ringing them up or just send them an email. Don’t speak Spanish? Run the words through Google translate. In other words, try..... and above all, use some imagination; it’s why you bought an Adventure bike..... RiDE and this thread have told you how. The rest is up to you.
PS I did this on an iPad, it really is that easy.
