After more than a year waiting for the moment when I could start participating on the low-cost mountain bike Portugal crossing, I finally was able to join this amazing journey.
The VPBTT (Portugal Crossing on Mountain Bike) began in the end of 2007 and has been crossing Portugal from Lisbon through the South Portugal littoral, it went across the Algarve and now it started to rise north through Portugal`s interior. Of course this has been done during several weekend stages because we all must work to afford the expenses (even being low-cost LOL).
Now that I am already able to ride my mountain bike I finally joined this group of great friends on this country traversing. And I can only say that Portugal it is really BEAUTIFUL!
This last weekend we started at Vila Real de Santo António, near the southeast border with Spain and we headed to Mértola where we all slept on a gym before heading to Serpa during Sunday.
Packing my sleeping bag after a good night sleep.During my first stage (it was the 11th for the rest of the group) we made 115km and on the second day we rode 70km. But, even though the terrain was not easy or plain, I would make it all again just for the fun, the views and the fellowship. From now on there is nothing that will impede me from going through the rest of the stages, and when it gets to Lisbon I will go through all the first stages I couldn´t participate because of my injuries.
11th stage (VRSA-Mértola);
12th stage (Mértola-Serpa).
4 comments:
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Hi Jorgex, how are you? You should try and join the VPBTT - It was one of the best weekends of my life!
From now on I´ll attend every single stage of the RAP :D
Take care ;)
Very nice information, I like your take on blogging.
Hey Control Valves ;)
I´m glad you enjoyed it. Unfortunately, lately I haven´t been able to write new posts because I try to ride every free time I got, at this time of the year my work takes almost all my time :(
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