Pico de veleta

After spending two months bubling around southern Spain, you join the ride at Valor, in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Andalusia. We were contemplating our return route north to Santander and the ferr

The Passo Campolongo has a charmingly musical name that sounds like it could be the title of an Italian piano sonata. But cyclists who come to this climb in the Dolomites soon learn that it is a true

In professional mountain biking, it’s downhilling that is the most dynamic… and dangerous. Dominic Bliss met the crazy riders at the 2025 downhilling World Championships, in the Swiss Valais region, and discovered why they launch themselves down steep mountain trails at full tilt

Historians claim Nice was named after Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, following a military triumph over the local Ligurian tribes. But sitting on my seafront terrace, watching the evening sun sett

David Myers tests his sanity (and calf muscles) on the Alpenpässe-Weg – a journey of 40 cols and nearly 700km – to discover how the Swiss Alps were lived in and connected long before the combustion engine

Last autumn we embarked on a campervan adventure through Portugal, a country largely unknown to us, despite spending several winters touring its neighbour, Spain. There is free movement between them n