Back Roads of Spain

by Duncan Gough

Overview

Every year since 2000 I have ridden to Spain on my Moto Guzzi V10 Centauro.
This book is largely about my experiences on those journeys, but also includes articles on more general motorcycling and travel themes.
I hope that the reader will not only enjoy the telling, but will perhaps be inspired to commit their own journeys to paper; you will see that I have managed to improve the way I write, year on year, just give it a go!
Of course I also hope to inspire you to set off for Spain yourself; to this end I have put in a number of maps, some of the common dangers of riding in Spain, books to read, and some cookery!
This is not a guide book; my intention is to encourage you to explore Spain in a way that you might not otherwise.
Although my journeys are normally on my motorbike I hope this will not discourage users of other vehicles from checking out places and roads that I have included here. Make your own assessment of the suitability of the road; as shown on your map, and as you find it. Don't be afraid to turn back if it looks too difficult. Spanish roads frequently change. One year a pot-holed narrow road, with extremely tight hairpin bends, the next smooth new tarmac with graded corners, or anywhere in between!

I take no responsibility for your adventures. They are yours alone!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044494053
Publisher:	Duncan Gough
Publication date:	04/24/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

"The first time I visited Spain I felt at ease, felt like I was coming home. That feeling has only deepened over the years."
That first time was in the early '80s when Duncan visited his parents who had built a house near Ronda in Andalusia. By 2000 he was hooked on Iberia and began making annual trips on his Moto Guzzi motorbike; as always in his travels, accompanied by a sketchbook. He wrote articles about these journeys and in 2010 these were collected with other articles in his first self-published book, 'Back Roads of Spain'. Since then, he has published a further nine books.
Duncan was born in London, but at the age of three, his family moved to a mixed fruit farm in the middle of 100 acres of Rhodesian bush. An unusual early childhood was spent nearly always barefoot, spending a lot of time off in the bush learning self-reliance and about the natural world. At the age of eighteen, he got a job on a sugar-cane farm in Zululand, South Africa. In the following years, he worked on feature films, as a boat-fitter/engineer in Greece, and a cabinet maker. He became in his own words - "A Jack of all trades".
In 1980, he took a degree in Visual Art at Aberystwyth University, and in the years since, has added Theatre Designer and Tour Guide to his C.V. He is now a full-time Travel Writer whilst working on a series of Historical Novels set in the 1800s.