Yes, all year long, and especially in November, in Portland!

I see in your entry to the city you took a roundabout route and missed biking over the pedestrianized Puente Romano, the 16 arched Roman bridge. You should really try to see it before you leave the city.

So beautiful. I could look at these views all year long and be a happy man.

I remember reading about it. This route was okay, just bumpy and dusty. It was all rideable.

I might have downloaded your route ;-)

Yes, that's exactly it. I would have thought the software would take such things into account, but no. We got the proof today when the route directed us the wrong way around a traffic circle.

Well worth it!

Interesting. I might have to try it if I see it on a menu.

Being able to indulge in such things is one of the joys of cycle touring.

I think it's a campaign against gender violence. There have been signs and banners in most towns that seem to indicate that's what it's about.

I'd heard that about willows. But there's no need to suck up water here, rather the opposite. Maybe they pulp them for paper?

I got the idea from one of your journals. There's not a lot out there about cycling in Andalucía, perhaps because it's simply too hot when most people take vacations. The shorter days are a challenge, though.

I created a Sicily itinerary last year, after we had to cancel our 2020 Italy trip. We were hoping to be able to travel again in early 2021 but knew we'd have to be home in May-June to sell our townhouse. Spring 2023 perhaps?

Truly. But definitely chilly!

We biked this in the other direction and had as much trouble finding our way through as you did. We were stranded on the side of that controlled access highway trying to figure out what to do when we were rescued by a biker out on his day ride who changed his plan for the day and gave us an escort for the ten miles into Granada: https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/andalucia2004/granada/. We would never have figured this out on our own.