IT’S NO SECRET TO you, if you’ve been following my tales, that IMTBIKE is a tour operator whose work I have enjoyed. It is no accident that they are offering a tour for Australian Motorcyclist readers. My most recent experience with them leads me to suggest that you could hardly do better than to sign up for it!
I did the ‘Essence of Portugal’ tour, a short (8 days, 7 of them riding) and intense experience. Our guides were Roger from Barcelona and Mikel from the Basque country; Paulo, the perpetually cheerful Lisbon IMTBIKE agent from whom we collected the bikes turned out to be from Timor, with his family scattered all over Australia.
Heading out of Lisbon, we made it to the Ponte 25 de Abril,