Touring Altura Portugal to Estepona
02-08-24, 09:42 PM
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I spent a month in Portugal this October and the weather was extremely varied with some hot days as well as some extremely windy rainy days. My only advice as previously the absolute worst part of Portugal is along the coast from a cycle touring perspective. I’d like to joke that if Portugal needed an enema they put the hose in the Algarve.
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April is a good time weather-wise, and Easter week is early this year, so you won’t have the crowds to contend with. I arrived on Holy Thursday and stayed until the Monday after Easter on the recommendation of the campground owner. He said everywhere would be mobbed. I had been there in mid-March two years earlier during a train tour of Spain. The place was relatively empty. When I rode in on Holy Thursday I didn’t recognize where I was until I hit the bridge across the gorge because of all the visitors.
Don’t know how long it would be or how much climbing, but maybe map out Ronda-Grazalema-Puerto de Las Palomas-Zahara de la Sierra-Montecorto-Setenil de la Bodega-Ronda.
Don’t know how long it would be or how much climbing, but maybe map out Ronda-Grazalema-Puerto de Las Palomas-Zahara de la Sierra-Montecorto-Setenil de la Bodega-Ronda.
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02-15-24, 11:26 AM
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