🏍️ Motorcycle travel around Spain

🏍️ Motorcycle Travel Around Spain

Photo: Murcia, 2021.

Since I was 16 years old (year 2000), I've always traveled by motorcycle, even with 78cc machines not ready to travel, I was already getting lost in the most rural areas of my province where I loved to stop and contemplate without any hurry.

At the beginning of 2019 I decided that traveling by motorcycle from a contemplative side was more than traveling for tourism, it was a totally different experience, managing to smell and taste what a simple trip by car, train or plane would not give me.

Photo: Cap de Creus, 2022.

I decided to travel throughout my native country (Spain) in a leisurely way in order to increase and extract to the maximum the experience of traveling by motorcycle in a contemplative way.

This implied not only traveling to the tourist sites of all the provinces, but also analyzing each municipality, investigating it and experiencing it, that is, traveling as completely as possible.

Photo: Murcia, 2023.

Here I will be publishing a photographic diary with my favorite photographs of my experiences with the objective of motivation to enjoy something as incredible as it is to travel by motorcycle through Spain in this way.

🇪🇸 Province list

Murcia

• [x] Murcia

Comunidad Valenciana

• [x] Alicante
• [ ] Valencia
• [x] Castellón

Cataluña

• [x] Tarragona
• [ ] Barcelona
• [x] Gerona
• [x] Lérida

Aragón

• [x] Huesca
• [ ] Zaragoza
• [x] Teruel

Castilla La Mancha

• [x] Albacete
• [x] Cuenca
• [x] Ciudad Real
• [x] Toledo
• [ ] Guadalajara

Madrid

• [x] Madrid

Castilla y León

• [x] Ávila
• [ ] Soria
• [x] Segovia
• [ ] Salamanca
• [ ] Zamora
• [ ] Valladolid
• [x] León
• [x] Palencia
• [ ] Burgos

La Rioja

• [ ] La Rioja

Navarra

• [ ] Navarra

País Vasco

• [x] Guipúzcoa
• [ ] Álava
• [x] Vizcaya

Cantabria

• [ ] Cantabria

Principado de Asturias

• [x] Asturias

Galicia

• [ ] Lugo
• [ ] Orense
• [ ] La Coruña
• [ ] Pontevedra

Extremadura

• [x] Cáceres
• [x] Badajoz

Andalucía

• [x] Huelva
• [x] Sevilla
• [x] Córdoba
• [x] Cádiz
• [x] Málaga
• [x] Jaén
• [x] Granada
• [x] Almería

Total: 28 visited

Lessons Learned

1. Weather Preparation: Mountain weather can change rapidly
2. Local Cuisine: Each region has its own specialties
3. Attitude: A kind attitude goes a long way
4. Pacing: Don't rush—the journey is as important as the destination

Future Plans

This journey has inspired plans for future motorcycle adventures across Europe, with Portugal and France next on the list.

The open road calls, and Spain's diverse landscapes provide the perfect backdrop for motorcycle exploration.