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***NEW*** - Downloadable
GPS Files
For most ride from September 2013 onwards you will see links to 2
downloadable GPS files, one in GPX format and one in KML
format
1. To use the GPX files click the link and then when prompted save the file to your computer with a name of your choice and upload the file to your GPS, These types of file will work with Garmin and most other GPS systems. Note:- these files will not open properly in Google Earth, use the KML files instead. 2. To use the KML files click the link and if you have Google Earth installed on your computer click open and Google Earth will open showing the route on the map, where you can also use street view for a virtual tour of the ride. Or alternatively you can save the file and open it later. If you don't have Google Earth why not try it its free to install just
google it, and see where you've been or where you could have been!
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| Location | Distance | GPS and Files |
| Alcalá de los Gazules A Challenging ride with over 2000ft of climbing. Starting from Venta Duchesa and up the hill to turn right at the roundabout for the link road to the main N381 Motorway. At the motorway Junction we took the service road that runs along side the N381 before taking a track on the left to take us to the CA-6200 road. Turning right then along the road we passed a signpost to a Venta down country lane on the left and decided to check it out and have our coffe stop there. Suitably refreshed we headed back to the main road and up the long hill to Alcalá de los Gazules. Leaving the town by the A-2304 which took us back to the Motorway service road and back the way we came to where we had parked at the start. We then drove to Venta Los Naveros for our final Drinks and Snack stop. A tiring but enjoyable ride! | 51km Ascent 611m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| Benelup An away day starting from Venta Rayo near the bottom of Vejer, Taking the back road to meet the main road to Benelup and along the road for coffee at a venta that we've visited before and always get good service at. By the time we had finished our breakfast the rain was coming down quite heavily and the decision was taken to cut the ride short and head back the way we came as fast as possible. We stopped half way to see if the rain was going to stop but there was no sign of it easing up so we headed out again and back to Venta Rayo. The barbecue in the corner was lit so we all crowded round that trying to dry out. after a couple of drinks we packed our bikes up and headed home grateful that we very rarely get wet rides. | 39km Ascent 246m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| Cadiz A special three kings ride to Cadiz. Starting from Casa Blas as usual and through town to pick up the cycle track to San Fernando at the Aldi roundabout, continuing round San Fenrandoi to Bahis Sur shopping centre to pick up other riders. The track starts directly from the car park and all along the side of the railway track right into Cadiz centre. We stopped for coffee along the promenade near the new suspension bridge and by that time it had warmed up after a chilly start. Suitably refreshed we threaded our way through round the city and all round the penisular and along the sea front to the lovely Nahubeach Restaurant for drinks before heading back to Chiclana and home. Click to view Photo's | 80km Ascent 272m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| Conil - Fishing Port This weeks Sunday ride was moved to Saturday due to inclement weather forecasted for Sunday. Starting from Casa Blas, down Stumpy lane and onto the N340 to pick up other riders at Venta Campano. Following the road into El Colorado, then taking the track which comes out on the coast road near Casa Louis. Along the coast road through Roche and onto the Fishing Port at Conil for coffee at the Venta near the quay. The return journey was along quiet roads to El Colorado for refreshments at Venta El Andaluz before going our seperate ways home. | 33km Ascent 202m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| Conil - La Atalaya A repeat of one of our favourite rides. Starting from Casa Blas and up past La Raya to Venta Ramirez. Over the bridge and into Conil for Coffee at La Atalaya with glorious views overlooking Conil beach. Return via a different route incorporating more tracks and lanes and through the woods for refefreshments at Venta Cazadores. | 39km Ascent 317m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| Conil - Mirador Restaurant A gentle ride because we had guests riding with us. leaving Casa Blas and up to Venta Raya then on to the motorway junction to pick up the La Florida road to Ramirez. Meandering through the back roads to Conil and the Mirador cliff top Restaurant for coffee. Return via the N340 to Venta Cazadores for refreshments. Click to view Photo's | 49km Ascent 262m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| Conil - Sea Front A short ride due to high winds through the woods and down quiet roads with high walls to minimise the wind and on to one of the beach bars at Conil for coffee. Return by a similar route for refreshments at Venta Cazadores. | 41km Ascent 216m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| El Palmar - Santa Lucia A more adventurous ride and also a quite eventful ride. We started at Casa Blas as usual and headed up the road to Venta La Raya to pick up more riders waiting there. Continuing along the road and then on to La Florida to Venta Ramirez, and then to the outskirts of Conil and and along the road to El Palmar for coffee. A couple of our riders had decided to take the track to El Palmar and by the time we got to the coffee stop one of them had the first of 3 punctures caused by thorns on the track. After coffee we took the road to the roundabout at the bottom of the road to Vejer , and on to the quite hamlet of Santa Lucia where we had been told they did an excellent egg and chips. This turned out to be a bit of a disappointment as it wasn't even as good as at Blas's. Mark spent all the lunchtime mending his punctures! After lunch we made our way back via the N340 and all headed back by seperate routes home. Mark rode the last 10km with a flat tyre having run out of spare tubes! Still we all had a good time but decided we would never use that particular track near El Palmar again! | 61km Ascent 408m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| El Palmar - Sea Front By popular request a repeat of our ride from two weeks ago, as two of our newer members wanted to try a Sunday ride for the first time. Starting as usual from Blas and up the road and past Venta La Raya and on to Venta Ramirez via La Florida. Continuing into Conil and on to the El Palmar road for coffee on the sea front. Return back to Conil via a similar route to Vernta Cazadores for drinks and refeshments. | 47km Ascent 288m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| La Barrosa Coastal Ride A coastal along our local beach front avoiding the wind where we could. Stopping for coffee at Conil fishing harbour before returning via back roads and tracks for refreshments at Venta Cazadores | 46km Ascent 211m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| La Muela Starting at Casa Blas and up the road past Venta La Raya and on to the La Florida road at the motorway junction. Reaching Venta Ramirez at the end of the La Florida road and on down to meet the N340 and along the old main road to the turn for La Muela. After a continuous 2km climb we reached our coffee stop at Venta Rufino. Return all the way along the N340 to Chiclana and onto the Cazadores for refreshments. | 46km Ascent 392m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| La Via Verde - Puerto Serrano to Olvera Special 6th Anniversary ride to La Via Verde de la Sierra - One of most beautiful Via Verdes in Spain. It was voted as the best Greenway in Europe in 2009 - Click here for more info We with El Presidente have just celebrated our sixth birthday with a ride at La Via Verde. El Presidente and Donal chose to ride half of the ride starting at Olvera, as it turned out that was a good decision on their part as the full ride started at Puerto Serrano with strong headwinds, the outward ride is the hilliest and with strong headwinds put us to the test; sporting our new team kit nothing would stop us from having a great day. When we arrived at Olvera we met up with El Presidente, Donal and their spouses as the Ventas at the finish were closed we made the steep hike to the square in Olvera, the girls had sourced a lovely Venta for lunch, after a great lunch of a variety of tapas, liquid refreshment and photos we set off again with a tail wind and more downhill on the way back we made record time. The girls were there to great us with big smiles and congratulations on our achievement. Some of us returned home and others stayed in the lovely hotel at the start of the ride in Puerto Serrano. - | 77km Ascent 1863m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| Los Naveros Starting from Casa Blas and up the road past La Raya and up to the motorway junction. Taking the La Florida road to the outskirts of Conil and down the hill to the N340 and the Venta at the roundabout for a coffee break. Continuing by taking the track off the motorway roundabout and coming out on the road to Los Naveros and into the village for another coffee stop. Suitably refreshed we headed out of Los Naveros on the cañada all the way back to Pago and the Cazadores fpr refreshments. | 43km Ascent 393m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| Los Naveros - Medina Sidonia An all road ride today due to all the rain we have had recently making the tracks very muddy. Leaving Casa Blas and up the road and past Venta Raya and continuing all the way along the road to Los Naveros for our first coffee stop. Leaving the venta and taking the old road and onto the main Benelup/ Medina road to the base of Medina for our second refreshment stop. The final leg of the ride was straight back down the Medina/Chiclana road and onto Venta Cazadores for Beers. | 65km Ascent 439m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| Malcocinado An away day ride starting on the Venta El Rayo on the Medina road off the N340 near the end of the motorway. Heading off on the back road from the venta and using a mixture of roads and tracks coming out at the outskirts of Malcocinado and up to Bar El Negro for coffee and breakfast. Return by mostly different tracks and quiet roads to Venta El Rayo for Beers and Chips | 39km Ascent 269m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| Old Sancti Petri - La Barrosa Riding from Casa Blas we made our way through the town to Old Sancti Petri then on to La Barrosa beach for coffee. Returning via Sancti Petri past the golf resort and though Chiclana Park to Venta Cazadores for drinks. | 42km Ascent 213m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| Picadero Carmago An away day ride for a change. Starting at the stabes called Picadero Carmago near Venta Rayo just after the motorway to Vejer ends. A beautiful country ride through open country, quite hilly and also a windy day which made this short ride quite challenging. The coffee stop was at Mal Cocinado which actulayy translates as Bad Cooking Note:- this ride was moved to Monday because of high winds on Sunday | 38km Ascent 282m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| Puerto Real From Casa Blas taking the road into town but turning off near the industrial estate onto wet lane and on to the bottom of Gypsy Hill to meet other riders. Going up the hill and continuing to the Marquesado road and through the village to the Chacona turn. We then took the track which eventually comes out at the Paterna road and down the road towards Puerto Real and to Henrys Bar for coffee. return was back down the road for about 1km and then turning right coming out at Puerto Real hospital and along the new blue cycle track to Barrio Jarana. Taking the yellow brick road through the woods and onto the Marquesado road and back to Pago. | 47km Ascent 397m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| Roche - Bar Luis With the weather getting into the Mid 30's now we opted for a shortish ride. Starting from Casa Blas and and through Chiclana Park and threading our way through the outskirts of Town to La Barossa beach. Along the coast road to near Roche and onto the Beach to Bar Luis for coffee and cold drinks. Leaving the bar and taking the track and quiet roads to El Colorado then down the N340 to the track to Venta Raya for Radlers and Chips. | 39km Ascent 393m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| Sanctuario de los Santos An away day ride starting at Venta Duquesa, near Medina Sidonia. The ride started towards the A381 service road, we then took the track signposted San Jóse de Valle and then onto the Paterna/Acala los Gazules road for about 10km and into Gazules for coffee. The
way back took us onto the A381 service road to Sanctuario de los Santos,
a good track to to rejoin the service road and back to the
Duquesa for expensive drinks albeit in luxurious surroundings! - distance 51km | 51km | GPX file KML file Map of Route Photo |
| San Ambrosio -Trafalgar A long hard ride to the pretty village of San Ambrosio up in the hills above Barbate. Starting from Casa Blas and along to Venta Ramirez then down the hill to the N340 and along the road to pick up the track near the La Muela turn to yake us to El Palmar. Carrying on to near Zahora we took the track which led eventually on to the road to San Ambrosio for coffee at Venta Canuto. After a well earned Break we took the forest road to the main Barbate road and down the hill to Trafalgar taking in the fantastic view of the coast on the way down. by this time the wind was against us all the way back along the road to Conil and eventually on to El Colorado for well earned refreshments. Click to view Photo's | 76km Ascent 536m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| San Ambrosio - Vejer An eventful ride, starting with a mix up over starting times and places, and getting worse when one member had a puncture on a brand new bike having only ridden about 20km. We started from either Venta Reya or Hotel Antonio in Colorado. and proceeded by roads and tracks to the ouskirts of Conil and then on past El Palmar to the track which would take us to San Ambrosio. From there we headed up the steep track to Vejer and were glad when we finally got to the top. Picking our way through the back streets of Vejer we finally found the Plaz de España where we had our coffee stop. The return trip started with the hair raising fast drop down the windy road from the top to the N340, then the plod back against the wind for tapas and drinks back at Hotel Antonio. | 66km (Venta Reya) 48km (Antonio's) Height Gain 451m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| San Antonio An away day this week starting at Venta El Chaparrito near San Jose de Valle, starting by taking the road past the reservoirs, then heading to just before San Antonio for a coffee Break at Venta Rogelio. after the break we headed on skirting Barca de la Florida then back to El Chaparrito on the Jerez road. | 38km | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| San Fernando Marina A short ride to the San Fernando Marina, Starting from Casa Blas and through town to pick up the track to San Fernando at the Aldi Roundabout. Following the track to the town and winding our way across to the Marina for coffee. We then decided to go across to the Gypsy venta at the other side of the marina, a complete contrast to the Yacht Club at the Marina. Return by a similar route for drinks at the Peña in Pago | 33km Ascent 194m | GPX file` KML file Map of Route |
| San Fernando Marismas From Casa Blas through town to pick up the cycle track along the side of the tramway from the Aldi roundabout, then through San Fernando on the cycle track to the visitor centre on the far side of the town for coffee. Return via the Marismas, then back along the tramway and through town to Pago and the Venta Cazadores for Beer and chips | 41km Ascent 141m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| San Fernando - Town Centre Leaving Casa Blas and heading through town to pick up the track to San Fernando that starts at the Aldi roundabout. We followed the track into to San Fernando and on to the the town hall square for a coffee. With excellent timing just as we got sat down the heavens opened and and a very heavy shower ensued. However two coffees later the rain had gone and the sun was out again as we re-traced our route back to Pago for Beer and chips. | 32km Ascent 253m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| San Jose del Valle An away day ride back to the San Jose del Valle area we visited about a month ago. A beautiful scenic ride in the rolling countryside. Crossing the dam on the reservoir and down the valley to a lovely venta for coffee, then round and through La Barca de Florida and back to our starting point. | 38km Ascent 290m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| Trafalgar This ride was moved to Saturday because of windy conditions forecast for Sunday. Starting from Casa Blas and along the Pago road to pick up other riders at Venta Raya, continuing to the motorway junction and across to the La Florida road to the outskirts of Conil. Through Conil to the roundabout for El Palmar and after going along the sea front there we re-joined the main road and on to Trafalgar and Bar Las Dunas for coffee. Return via a similar route for refreshaments at Venta Reyes Click to view Photo | 61km Ascent 393m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| Valdegrama Beach A lovely ride to the beach at El Puerto de Santa Maria, taking us through Marquesado, Barrio Jarana, and Puerto Real to the Country Park near the university campus. Leaving the park and onto the road the beach was a couple of km away and the coffee stop at our favourite venta there. Return via a similar route to the Peña in Pago for Beer and chips. | 65km Ascent 367m | GPX file KML file Map of Route |
| Zahora A lovely ride taking in El Palmar and Zahora, From Blas up to the Florida rd and then through Conil to pick up the road to El Palmar. After a coffee stop on the sea front we returned to the road and went further down the coast to Zahora near Trafalgar. It was very busy there but well worth a visit. Return via a similar route for refeshments at La Raya. |
61km Ascent 379m |
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