View from the summit, Col d'Aubisque
Switchback, halfway up Arthurs Seat
Switchback, halfway up Monte Zoncolan from Ovaro
Passing signposts on the way up Blockhaus, Italy
Roadside decorations by Lake Annecy, France
My first ever Pyrenean climb
Memorial to Tom Simpson, Mont Ventoux
On top of Monte Zoncolan, after my first climb, from Sutrio
Mont Ventoux's unique moonscape
Commemorative plaque of Wim Van Est, whose fall on the Col d'Aubisque cost him the yellow jersey
Australian War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux
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Day
1. Approaching Andorra.
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Church
in the Spanish Pyrénées.
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Approaching
Angliru’s ‘unremarkable apron’; yet an unforgettable climb.
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Roz
beside the bronze statue of a boot at the Cabo de Finisterre. It
signifies the
finishing point – for some – of the Camino de Santiago.
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The
Padrão dos Descobrimentos (Belem, Lisbon), the monument to
Portugal’s Age of Exploration,
during the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Tram
28, renowned for providing tourists with a scenic, 40 minute
journey through
Lisbon’s steeper parts.
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Windmill
in Odeceixe, Portugal.
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| ‘The Cyclists’, by Dutch sculptor Jits Bakker, in Loulé, Portugal. |
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La Pandera’s summit. There’s still much further
to
climb from here than you might think.
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The ‘road’ up to the Pico de Veleta; the Iberian
Peninsula’s third-highest
peak and the second-highest peak in the Sierra
Nevada.
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Close to the summit, albeit for the want of a road.
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Day 40. Reaching the end of Mark’s cycling journey
towards
Solsona, with the Pyrénées in the distance.
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| Mark packing up his bike before heading to Barcelona. |
