Our 3 best routes from Girona to the Costa Brava!
If you’ve been watching the YouTube video, here’s where you can download our favourite Girona Café Cycling Routes! To learn more about each route check out our YouTube video: Guide to Café stops in Catalan Be prepared for your cafe stop and learn how to order your coffee in Catalan! Cafe amb llet – coffee […]
For many of us, the beauty of exploring new destinations by bike lies in the opportunity cycling gives us to move at our own pace, pause when we need or want to, and uncover hidden gems that might otherwise be left unturned. Our selection of self-guided bike tours in Europe has been carefully hand-picked and […]
As winter starts to fade we're looking for ways to keep riding in a jersey and bib shorts. We've put together our top destinations for riding this spring and fall.
The recent announcement of REI Adventures closing its doors has left many adventure travel enthusiasts wondering where to turn for their cycling experiences.
To the Eat Sleep Cycle community: Thank you for the support over the last 8 years.
As I write this blog on 4th February, it is 23 degrees Celsius (73 degrees Fahrenheit) in Girona.
If you have decided to visit the cycling mecca of Girona, you may be comparing travel options. You may also be weighing up the option of bringing your own bike against renting a bike locally.
There is one way to make your dream cycling holiday with Eat Sleep Cycle even better, turn it into a Dream new bike day too!
The start of any new year brings fresh energy, enticing plans and new cycling destinations to motivate you. As we pedal into the first promising weeks of 2024, the cycling world beckons with new horizons and exciting adventures.
We are one week into 2024, have you changed anything yet? Whether you believe in New Year's Resolutions or not, if it is a way to ride your bike more than we think it's worth a go! Here are some of our top ideas to have a great year on your bike in 2024.
Four compass points, Four challenging rides. Known for its road cycling, people are now discovering Girona’s environs are even better on a gravel bike.
Girona is now well established as a capital of cycling. It has been decades since the first pros moved here to use the Catalan city as a training base and nowadays around 100 professional riders call Girona home for at least some part of the year. With this influx of pros Girona has raised its […]
This time last year we still didn’t know what kind of year was in store for 2022. We didn’t guess how quickly the world would forget about Covid and everyone would get back to living life at its fullest. For Eat Sleep Cycle 2022 has meant the complete return of cycling tourism and of course […]
Winter is coming... but imagine you could avoid donning those woolly overshoes and rain jacket and chase the summer around the world, where would you go?
Yes. We know it’s hot. Stinking hot here in Spain. We set our alarms a little earlier, slip out on the bike before the mercury has risen, but still, we need the right equipment to get us through longer days. Jersey choice is so important to keeping you temperature regulated in the summer weather, and […]
Nafent Magazine, the bilingual cycling magazine in Catalonia, tried Eat Sleep Cycle’s new Ridley gravel bikes for a week and tested them on all terrains and surfaces. Our conclusion: The Kanzo, whether it is electric or not, is your ideal gravel bike for both performance riding and bike packing. Looking back on a great week […]
This year local Girona trio Rocket, Cristina, and Laura from Over & Out took on Badlands, by Transiberica. A 750km gravel race, crossing two deserts in Andalusia, with 16,000m of climbing. This was the first ultra-cycling race for all three, and for Rocket, her first ever bikepacking adventure…What a way to start. Read on to […]
If you are planning a cycling trip to Girona this Autumn and worried if it will go ahead or not this blog is just what you need! Eat Sleep Cycle founder Lee shares his thoughts & advice for travelling to Catalunya this year as a cycling business owner in Girona. Recently I have personally had […]
With less than a week to go until the Eat Sleep Cycle Café opens we speak to Bram, the Eat Sleep Cycle Café chef, as he talks about the inspiration behind the menu of our new Girona cycling café. One of the most important factors for Lee and Louise when deciding to expand Eat Sleep […]
Our very own Joan and Daan head out after work to go dirt jumping in Banyoles. I caught up with Joan to find out what it is about dirt jumping that he loves so much, and check out these awesome shots of the guys in action! Photos by Daan van Meeuwen. How long have you […]
Its difficult to put into words how grateful we are for every contribution to our Crowdfunding campaign for our very own Eat Sleep Cycle Girona cycling café. In this blog Eat Sleep Cycle Founder Lee reveals how the project really would not be possible without your help. The Dream I want to rewind to three […]
How To Plan A Bikepacking Trip The bikepacking season is well & truly here in Europe. Hot summer weather means packing light & an opportunity to expand your horizons and keep costs to a minimum (or splurge on some luxury hotels of course!). Planning a bike tour is great fun but also requires a bit […]
Girona: A City of Bikes If Silicon Valley is where good tech companies start, Girona is where great cycling businesses & products are made! In this blog we look at our favorite local Girona brands. What we find, as always, is that it is all about the great people behind them, leading them forwards and […]
Gravel cycling is tricky to define. In terms of terrain, ‘gravel’ can mean anything from unpaved roads to MTB single track and everything in between. On the subject of bikes, bike manufacturers use terms such as ‘all-road’, and ‘adventure’ to define their gravel machines, but one thing that gravel cycling can be defined by though, […]
Rolling, Mediterranean coastlines, stunning medieval towns and villages and the vineyards of the Empordà region – the Costa Brava is a fantastic place for a European cycling vacation, with plenty for non-cyclists to enjoy too! The best time to visit the Costa Brava is outside of the summer months when the region is quieter and […]
CHPT3 are a brand that we first started working with last November after their focus on local Girona cycling influence and innovative clothing caught our eye (something that ESC partner Brian has already written about and we’ve also explained why CHPT3 are a great fit for ESC). The Girona-based brand helmed by ex-pro David Millar […]
Girona may take all the credit for being one of the world’s best cycling destinations but beyond Girona, 40 km to the northwest to be precise, lies the region of La Garrotxa – a volcanic region offering some fantastic riding. In this region, hidden in the small town of Sant Feliu de Pallerols is a unique […]
