The French participants have finalised two routes for cycling near le Puy. You can start them in the small village of Saint-Pierre-Eynac and will give you the opportunity to visit caves that have been occupied by several generations of inhabitants since the prehistoric ages and to meet the statue of Our Lady of Mercy who is helping young children to walk properly.

The Caves of Peylenc

• Télécharger la fiche descriptive du tour « Les grottes de Peylenc » en français (.pdf)

The « Suc de Monac »

• Télécharger la fiche descriptive du tour « Le Suc de Monac » en français (.pdf).

Trasa Czarna is a 20 km route and Trasa Czewona is a 18 km route.

You can downlaod the Black and red routes maps that includes descriptions and pictures of both routes (*pdf, 3,4 Mo).

Jacub Mincewicz from Stowarzyszenie Polskie Uniwersytety Ludowe Uniwersytet Ludowy w Radawnicy (PL).

North Tyneside council has published some cycle route leaflets for which they gave me permission to publish on Talking Bikes website – could probably use it in the pdf too.   I attach the most relevant one but there are several.

• The link on North Tineside Council web pages
• Rising Sun cycle route (.pdf, kindly supplied by North Tyneside Council, © Crown Copyright and database right 2011. Ordnance Survey Licence Number 0100016801)

Newcastle city council also have routes – these should be be found via http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/cycling_gettingaround

Alasdair from Recyke y’Bike Ltd

The Italian learners have produced 3 routes for cycling in Napoli.

Route n°1

Route n°2

Route n°3

The Talking Bikes group  has been guided in Pompei by the Italian team. They have cycled on the border of the site (as it is prohibited to cycle on the archeological site itself) with a beautiful view on the Vesuvio from the entrance to the Villa dei Misteri. The return distance is 5 km.

• Download the brochure Pompei Bike.
• Browse the site managed by the Archeological Surintendance (EN).

Preparing the Bikes

Before leaving

Cycling

Having a break

Listening to the guide

On the forum

Supporting the initiative

At the end of the tour, learners and trainers have signed to support this initiative that may be prohibited by the new manager of the archeological site.

The last picture

During the exchange organised mid-September in  Newcastle, the project team from Recyke y’Bike and Academy International has designed two routes to cycle together with the Spanish, French, Italian and Polish learners.

The Rising Sun Route is designed to propose a distance between 6 to 12 km according to the physical conditions of the bikers (and it can also be adapted to the time available).

The Quayside Route starts nearby the Recyke y’Bike premises near the Tyne River. It is a 14,5 km path.

This tour is proposed by the Spanish team as a 4 hour tour and a medium-high difficulty named after the typical bird of this mountain region called   “Treparriscos”. We have not tried it but obviously we would need much more than 4 hours to accomplish these 90 kilometers. Let’s hope that we will have the opportunity to visit them in June.

The description
« The “Treparriscos” is a tourist bicycle tour of 90 km and 965 ms of difference in height, which is taking place the last Saturday of June every year. It is a route by road that begins in the city of Sabiñánigo, province of Huesca, in the Aragonese Pyrenees. The route is on the Tena Valley with marvellous mountain landscape views.

From the start in Sabiñánigo, it starts to ascend slightly to the village of Biescas, passing through the top of Bubal, the tunnel of Escarrilla. There we turn to the right over the dam and we reach the village of Lanuza, later we arrive at the village of Sallent de Gállego to finalize the ascent in the ski resort of Formigal, very close to the French border. We return there by the state road passing through the villages of Sandiniés, Tramacastilla and again Biescas until the finish in Sabiñánigo. »

• To download the full description with map and images : Ruta Treparriscos

The Spanish team proposes to share an easy cycling route.

« We leave from Jaca, by the St. James Way to Castiello de Jaca, a town situated in the Aragon Valley. Once we reach this village we cross the N-330 towards the East of the village and we take the way which goes to Villa Juanita. There we turn to the left and we pass through the village of Aratorés and we return the same way we came. »

• To download the full description : Ruta – Jaca – Castiello de Jaca – Aratorés