It's Not About the Tapas Around Spain on Two Wheels

by Evans, Polly

• ISBN13: 9780553815566
• ISBN10: 0553815563
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Transworld Publishers

Summary

After working four years at a leading London book publisher, Polly Evans moved to Hong Kong where she spent many happy hours as a senior editor on the city's biggest entertainment weekly. But fighting deadlines from a twizzly office chair and free use of the coffee machine seemed just too easy. So Polly exchanged the shiny red cabs of Hong Kong for a more demanding form of transport - a bicycle - and set off on a voyage of discovery around Spain. From the thigh-burning ascents of the Pyrenees to the relentless olive groves of Andalusia, Polly found more adventures that she had bargained for. She survived a nail-biting encounter with a sprightly pig, escaped two over-zealous suitors, learnt that taxi drivers are allergic to cyclists, had her morality questioned by the locals, encountered some dubious aficionados on the road and indulged her love of regional cooking. While she pedalled, Polly pondered some of the more lurid details of Spanish history - the king who collected pickled heads, the queen who toured the country with her husband's mouldering corpse, and the unfortunate duchess who lost her feet. And wherever she cycled, she ate and ate - and yet still she shrank out of her trousers.

Table of Contents

Breaking the Chain	p. 11
Four Chorizos and a Tortilla	p. 17
You Call That a Mountain?	p. 29
A Very Cantankerous Pig	p. 43
Two Old Trout	p. 55
Anyone Got Any EPO?	p. 63
A Load of Fossils	p. 79
Dona Pilar and Her Very Large Sandwich	p. 89
Who Let the Dogs Out?	p. 99
Where There Is Hair, There Is Happiness	p. 109
Upwardly Mobile	p. 117
The Town Formerly Known as Funky	p. 131
'Grana-a-a-a-da'	p. 137
Close Encounters With the Tarmac	p. 163
A Lost Woman	p. 177
Lance, Would You Mind If We Swapped Legs?	p. 185
The Mountain Rescue	p. 195
Meeting Michael	p. 205
On the Banks of the Guadalquivir	p. 225
Tigers, Togas, Etc.	p. 245
'Did You Sleep Alone?'	p. 259
A Castle in Castile	p. 269
Three Men and a Cake Shop Lady	p. 277
Tilting at Windmills	p. 285
And a Plain, Black Coffee to Finish	p. 293
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