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Once you choosen and reserved a destination, we will send you plenty of relevant information that will help you to prepare your cycling or walking vacation. That will include both internet links and recomended readings related to your tour, in order to make your bicycle or walking trip even more interesting.

Meanwhile, just as an introductory information, we recommend the following links and readings:

Recomended Readings:

The Most Beautiful Villages of Spain by Hugh Palmer 
The Foods and Wines of Spain by Penelope Casas and Oscar Ochoa 
Portugal: A Companion History (Aspects of Portugal S.) by Jose Hermano Saraiva, Ian Robertson, and Ursula Fonss
Food of Portugal by Jean Anderson
The Taste of Portugal: Edite Vieira
The Portuguese - The Land And Its People: Marion Kaplan

Useful Sites:

Spain:

Tourism of Spain: http://www.spain.info/
Paradores de España: www.parador.es/english/index.jsp
Andalucia site: http://www.andalucia.org/modulos.php?modulo=Index&nuevoidioma=eng
Camiño site: http://www.galinor.es/c-santiago/historia-e.html
Camiño site: http://www.interam.com/camino/indexeng.htm

Portugal:

Recently, Lisbon came top in the New York Times "The 53 Places to Go in 2008". According to the NYT: "Bargain-seeking tourists have long flocked to Lisbon, typically among the most affordable of European cities. But now the Portuguese capital is also emerging as a cultural force (...)".  Check more reasons in this link: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/travel/09where.html?em&ex=1197435600&en=5cff9323c3f7aed1&ei=5087%0A
Other recent New York Times articles about Portugal: Douro: In Portugal, a New Stop on the Global Wine Trail: http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/travel/11next.html?8dpc
Douro, by Unesco: http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=1046
Tourism of Portugal: www.visitportugal.com/Cultures/en-US/default.html
Portugal general information: www.portugal.org/index.shtml
Portugal Figures: www.portugal.org/index.shtml
Pousadas de Portugal: www.pousadas.pt/historicalhotels/EN
Alentejo site: http://www.visitalentejo.pt/vEN
Images of Costa Azul (the Blue Coast): http://www.travelphotographers.net/articles/articles0704/pb0704-article.html
Great Food: http://www.leitesculinaria.com/
Holiday home rentals and property finders in Portugal: http://www.portugalportfolio.com/  

France:

Tourism of France: http://us.franceguide.com/

Worldwide Luxury Travel:

  Garland Luxury Travel: excellent vacations worldwide: http://www.garlandluxurytravel.com/ 

Miscellaneous sources:

Adventurous Cycling Association: http://www.adventurecycling.org/index.cfm 
My Bike Site .com: http://www.MyBikeSite.com/index1.htm
Real Adventures: http://www.realadventures.com/ 
Gordon's Guide: www.bicycling-vacations.com
InfoListings Directory: http://www.info-listings.com/ 
World Site Index (A searchable directory of websites organised by subject): http://www.worldsiteindex.com
Internet Web Directory: Internet Web Directory.
Directory Link. Includes cycling stuff: Directory Link
An UK site. Includes biking and walking related information: Stiff Upper List - UK Directory
Viesearch: viesearch
Find Toplinks: findtoplinks
Josh's Sanctum site: Josh`s Sanctum
Popular Internet Links directory updated daily: SoMuch.com 
List2myurl: http://www.link2myurl.net
Link list (Hungary): http://irorszag-utazas.lap.hu/
Directory from: Apexoo
Search Tourist: www.searchtourist.com
Tourist Attractions and Travel Directory: TouristBest.com
Lookdirectory: LookDirectory.com
A Traveling: http://www.atraveling.com/
Tours .com: http://www.tours.com/ 
Directory Recreation: www.directoryrecreation.com
Fun recreation: http://www.funrecreation.com/
Memorexa site: memorexa.com
Big Traveling .com: http://www.bigtraveling.com/
Directory Cycling .com: http://www.directorycycling.com 
Turn to Travel:  www.turntotravel.com
Riptrax Travel Resource
Travel Pacific Herald: http://travel.pacificherald.com/
ITravelDirectory.com - Travel Directory and information on the web.
Rent-a-House downtown Lisbon: http://casadase.wordpress.com 
Mike's Bikes: http://mikesbikes.com
Sweet Pete's Store: www.sweetpetes.com
Cool clothes for women and girls:  www.cariborja.com