This blog has been designed to chronicle my solo trip,by bike,across Europe. Starting in August 2022 at Bilbao in Northern Spain and finishing at some point further West about eight weeks later.

Of the two tasks (blogging v cycling), I’m definitely favouring two wheels over a keyboard !

My aim is to use a combination of pedal power and ferries (I love ferries!!) to travel West to East over the eight weeks of September and October . The provisional plan is Spain-ferry-Sardinia-ferry-Sicily,Italy and another ferry across the Adriatic to either Croatia or Montenegro. This last bit depends on all the usual cycle touring factors such as energy, time elapsed,funds etc and will dictate how I actually get back home

More of that in posts to come

I’ll be updating when I can and this is just a first post so I can circulate the blog address in advance of my departure from the UK on the 28th August .