April 2025 – Bike-A-Way

Route: Molina de Aragon -Checa – Orihuela del Tremedal. – Teruel – Sagunto – Valencia

This trip will be remembered as a rainy and cloudy one, almost from the start weeks ago, till now towards the end. It wasn’t raining, entering Molina de Aragon, but can’t say it was nice, balmy weather either, which you would expect this time of year. I passed through this place once before in 2016, on my off-road trip from Hondarribia at the Atlantic in the north of Spain, to Cartegana at the Mediterranean in the south of the country. All about that trip here.

Looking back towards Molina de Aragon, as the rain resumes.

Upon leaving Molina de Aragon, it started raining again. Now to a point I start to get fed up by it. But, we can only continue.

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Route: Vivar del Cid – Burgos – Covarrubias – Santo Domingo de Silos – Langa de Duero – El Burgo de Osma – Sigüenza

On my day of departure from Burgos, I first rode north out of town towards Vivar del Cid, a little village with nowadays abt 140 inhabitants. This is the place of birth of Rodrigo Díaz in ca 1043. El cid is one of Spains national hero’s, a knight who fought for the Spanish kings. In 1094, he conquered Valencia after a 2 year siege. He ruled there until his death on July 10, 1099.

Molino del Cid at Vivar del Cid, birthplace of the knight.

The official starting point of the Camino del Cid, km zero.

More about El Cid here.

In my whole cycling career, I have never seen a nicer or better documented website about a route as the one of El Cid, with plenty of possibilities, from routes by car, hiking routes, mountainbike routes, gravel options and road cycling options. You can combine as you wish. there are plenty of detours, shortcuts and the Continue reading “Camino del Cid, Prt. 1”