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[Closed] Riding advice required - Carvoeiro, Algarve, Portugal

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Am off there in a couple of weeks, for a week. Does anyone have any suggestions of places to go to / avoid if I'm out on the road bike...?

Can't find much on it other than a few Strava road segments - although I spy there is an 800m HC climb out of Lagoa which might well feature in a few of my rides....

Cheers all


 
Posted : 11/10/2014 11:15 pm
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I went there 6 years ago. Wish I had taken a bike, I might not have come home with a pregnant (now ex) girlfriend.


 
Posted : 12/10/2014 5:46 am
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It's inland a bit from where you are but the Serra de Monchique, centred round the village of Monchique, is a really beautiful, lush, range of hills with a kind of tropical microclimate going on. Quite different from the coast. Lots of cork oak and eucalyptus forests.

I did a day's mountain bike hire there a few years back when I was on a package holiday in Albufeira. Well worth the trip from the coast.


 
Posted : 12/10/2014 6:38 am
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Take the back roads to Silves and then M502 followed by N267 to Monchique. Plenty of nice roads around there.


 
Posted : 12/10/2014 7:03 am

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