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Beautiful indeed! Having this kind of countryside anywhere near your home is a great blessing! Looks like some very good fly-fishing could be done in those streams. I'm also marveling at the absence of people. Looks nothing like China!
Thanks for posting! Feel free to post about all of your rides!
cheers
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Beautiful indeed! Having this kind of countryside anywhere near your home is a great blessing! Looks like some very good fly-fishing could be done in those streams. I'm also marveling at the absence of people. Looks nothing like China!
Thanks for posting! Feel free to post about all of your rides!
cheers
Thanks, yes portugal is a little big country, with many different types of lanscape, i have many more trip reports to post, cheers.
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A very good report and excellent pictures. Was also a great reminder of how there are awesome places in Europe to explore.
Happy riding.
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Beautiful scenery and a great campsite. Thanks for sharing these.
I echo Euphonius' comment about "where are the people?" I've been in China too long, I guess. :lol8:
My guess is the following picture was taken just before you started your cold bike (gloves on exhaust?)
Also, you must be a magician? How can you balance a helmet on the tank like that? :eekers:
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Lucky guy!
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Lao Jia Hou
Beautiful scenery and a great campsite. Thanks for sharing these.
I echo Euphonius' comment about "where are the people?" I've been in China too long, I guess. :lol8:
My guess is the following picture was taken just before you started your cold bike (gloves on exhaust?)
Also, you must be a magician? How can you balance a helmet on the tank like that? :eekers:
Lucky guy!
Ehehe,
Thanks for the replies, yes without a doubt we can hardly see people, Portugal is a small country in area but in return has only 11 million people and most of them live near the coast where large cities are located and we have this "backyard" of almost virgin wilderness to explore, in the photo the bike is leaning to one side, and the gloves are warming up in the exausth because they were almost 0º degrees...
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truly beautiful. Living here in Zhejiang province, probably the most industrial in China, seeing wilderness like that is a true privilege. Im envious now and it made me homesick. Id give a lot for a gasp of fresh air now......
Thanks for these reports mate!
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truly beautiful. Living here in Zhejiang province, probably the most industrial in China, seeing wilderness like that is a true privilege. Im envious now and it made me homesick. Id give a lot for a gasp of fresh air now......
Thanks for these reports mate!
Hi Modron, just want to add that while you are here in Zhejiang, you can actually find many places not too dissimilar to the photos Faria has posted in both his mini RR's. When I was viewing his posts and collection of photos, it made me think, hey I can think of places that look somewhat similar to that not far from where I am based in Zhejiang, and it even gave me an idea to search through my huge collection of photos, and try to match photos one for one. Meaning one of Faria's photos to one of my mine that look similar. Since there are quite a few of his photos, where it would almost appear to be taken from places close by and areas I ride frequently, some of them almost on a daily basis. There might be some subtle differences e.g. language used on the signs, the amount of trash/rubbish one might see in the close-up photos of water ways - though from a distance might look "pretty." My point is Modron, if you can get yourself away from where it is in Zhejiang that you are located you may very well be surprised just what there is in terms of riding options in many parts/areas of Zhejiang (numerous mountain ranges). Some of which can also make you feel you are not amongst 1.4 billion people.
Fortunately this is one of the sane aspects/factors that keep me balanced with chaotic life and TIC moments which are many. I did SH for several years and don't miss the madness of life there one little bit. Zhejiang has many better areas for riding, maybe just not where you are located?
Modron, if you have a GP5 I can send you a multitude of c0-0rdinates to help you explore if you want.
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+1 what bikerdoc said! Zhejiang is heavily industrialized, but still has some of the most amazing rural areas and brilliant roads. If I had an eye tooth, whatever that is, I'd give it to be a bit closer to Zhejiang. You want to see industrialized, come see greater Shanghai -- the endless city.
cheers
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Hi, im back, here some pics of a trip to some of the "Portugal históric vIllages" hope you like it.
Good friends, so here is the story of our trip Aces' Historic Villages of Portugal "are total 12 villages, but our plans were going to visit only 8 of them, as arranged the meeting point would be awaiting by our comrades coming from the "south" eheheh, ace 9am on the dot there I was on the scene and already our friends Kimbusa (Jorge) and Khamsim (peter) were keeping place, although Peter could not follow us there was as promised to pay for the coffee to "adventurers"
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However arrived missing comrades, Alfredo and Carlos (vermallon), do not tell anyone but it is said that around ... Alfredo has a pact with the man who rules the weather, but thankfully for us because the day was gorgeous and sunny, perfect for what was coming, hugs, we left for breakfast promised by Pedro.
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Coffee taken, hugs and wishes for a good trip and there we left for our trip, we started by snaking along the Douro to Entre-os-Rios, we stopped there for a cigarette and two of lyrics and of course take a picture of the practice with the Angel as if to plead for protection that still came.
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We had to hereinafter as the river Paiva company with their furious fast to our right and the imposing mountains of the Montemuro Alfredo knows so well to the left, we always roads that snaked along the mountain through beautiful villages until Alvarenga (land the steaks), from here Alfredo took the reins and showed us one of the finest ways to cross the Sierra.
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However we descend to the east side of the Sierra and picked up the road from the Cinfães Castro Daire.
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There we climbed the beautiful journey that gives us this road leaving behind a landscape of predominantly typical slopes of the Douro and advancing to a typical mountain landscape stripped and imposing.
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However some of the fellows had to give drink to horses ....
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Deposits and go full forward we have long way to go, order from here was to find a picnic to eat any snack that already had the stomachs to protest ... but before you get there Piaggio decided to stop in the mud on a path of gravel, but nothing that aid does not solve .
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It was a meal quickly and effectively, because we still have much to walk, then did a shot of over 100km and only stopped in Trancoso.
In Trancoso, after a coffee and see that despite the trip being run by the best were just taking longer than previously thought in the planning, and we would have to follow to direct belmonte not pass in Linhares da Beira and Sortelha, and well as day only has 24 hours would have to be, so we made one more shot directly and did about 70 km towards Belmonte always with the Serra da Estrela in the background ....
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Belmonte back and still had to do some 70km to Idanha-a-Nova and Carlos Alfredo I were going to the campsite near the dam where we would spend the night, when we arrived it was dark, it was time to assemble the shelter and make dinner ... after a few hours we had the visit of kimbusa who came from the village to spend a little time with the rest of our community, we were an hour or two to tell and hear stories tell of life ...
Morning was 8am and we were lifting irons ....
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Would follow from here to Idanha-a-Velha, a historic village is completely walled, and that beauty was entered, advise to visit ...
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We leave Idanha-a-Velha back with impressive destination will Monsanto, known for being the most Portuguese village in Portugal ...
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Monsanto in the sky began to bless travelers, and would be so for a long time, we have next to no visibilty due to heavy rains, but the destination was still Piodão now we come to the city where Fundão still raining heavily here and the our comrade Kimbusa decided to end the trip and head home because the roads were not the best conditions and the tires fitted to his Piaggio Fly were not best suited to deal with so much water on the road, had previously caught a mighty scare and the vows we made good trip and went just 3 for Piodão, about 10/15 minutes of our comrade decided to head home the weather abated,, and follow directions taken to Piodão, and I tell you now that the road is dazzling paintings seem imagined by the gods, valleys of sight, touch the peaks in clouds, villages as they lost in the middle of nowhere, just amazing.
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From Piodão we decided by the most direct route to home, and which was not surprising that when we thought that we would no longer have anything more interesting, entered the National road 230 in Vide and did about 25km up and I can safely say that is in my personal Top 5 of the most amazing roads to make in a motorcycle , from here was to follow up home with a total of 763km made with the best possible company was a memorable trip for me, hope you like it.
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Beautiful .... let us see more of your country. :popcorn:
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Faria, when were made these photos? It seems to me that the weather is still a bit chilly, very beginning of spring. Somehow I expected that at this time a little warmer in Portugal.
Say, I see where you're carrying ammunition, but where did you hid machine gun?
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Faria, when were made these photos? It seems to me that the weather is still a bit chilly, very beginning of spring. Somehow I expected that at this time a little warmer in Portugal.
Say, I see where you're carrying ammunition, but where did you hid machine gun?
Well it looks like that the winter was longer this wear, but now its nice and hot...at last, the ammo boxes its my panniers project, i have a bigger ones to the same mounts, buts in this trip this ones were good, the machine gun i dont have...cheers..
