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1400 GTR - All Models => Adventure, Excursions, Ride outs, Touring => Topic started by: late_voyager on March 01, 2012, 11:45:47 PM

Title: Ride from Scotland to Spain in 2 weeks..
Post by: late_voyager on March 01, 2012, 11:45:47 PM
 :banana: off to Spain in a couple of weeks... route so far...
Inverness to south coast
worthing to dover.. get train
calais to
paris to
montpelier/ narbonne
barcelona
valencia
alicante

Any ideas welcome :)

Title: Re: Ride from Scotland to Spain in 2 weeks..
Post by: stoketim on March 02, 2012, 02:13:18 PM
half way between Barcelona and Valencia on the coast  road is a place called Peniscola (a nice stop over0, its here where the film El cid was made in the 60s. have stayed in Peniscola many times mother in law has a house there
Title: Re: Ride from Scotland to Spain in 2 weeks..
Post by: coman37 on March 02, 2012, 04:07:17 PM
Is it just me or is Peniscola a really great place for a Mo-in-law to live

Coman
Title: Re: Ride from Scotland to Spain in 2 weeks..
Post by: O.C. on March 02, 2012, 09:22:07 PM
I bet its more picturesque than Penis tone in Yorkshire   :mfr_lol:[/b]
Title: Re: Ride from Scotland to Spain in 2 weeks..
Post by: dokterdave on March 02, 2012, 10:29:41 PM
Quote from: late_voyager on March 01, 2012, 11:45:47 PM
:banana: off to Spain in a couple of weeks... route so far...
Inverness to south coast
worthing to dover.. get train
calais to
paris to
montpelier/ narbonne
barcelona
valencia
alicante

Any ideas welcome :)
All depends on why you are going.
Do you just want to get there or are you wanting a more tourist route
This is the route I took last year to Bayonne, in one hit.
http://g.co/maps/b8rd5
Minimal tolls and fast roads.

And I would use a variation on this route http://g.co/maps/3j7xt
to get to Valencia
Title: Re: Ride from Scotland to Spain in 2 weeks..
Post by: late_voyager on March 03, 2012, 11:51:36 PM
Thanks for info,
A bit of both really looking to get there, but if there is an amazing place to go or road, sight etc etc i dont mind stopping or detouring