This is the first of our series of blogs focussing on the six lucky winners of our free ‘Who is your Covid Hero’ cycling camp places in spring 2021. For those of you that don’t know, Viva Velo ran a ‘Who is your Covid Hero’ offer starting in March of this year seeking to reward just some of the thousands of people who were responsible for keeping us all going during those early months of the crisis. As a cycle tour company, Viva Velo cannot manufacture PPE or ventilators but we thought that if we could offer some light at the end of the tunnel for just a few of those Covid heroes by giving them a free cycling holiday then we’d be helping them in some small way.

This is the first of our series of blogs focussing on the six lucky winners of our free ‘Who is your Covid Hero’ cycling camp places in spring 2021. For those of you that don’t know, Viva Velo ran a ‘Who is your Covid Hero’ offer starting in March of this year seeking to reward just some of the thousands of people who were responsible for keeping us all going during those early months of the crisis. As a cycle tour company, Viva Velo cannot manufacture PPE or ventilators but we thought that if we could offer some light at the end of the tunnel for just a few of those Covid heroes by giving them a free cycling holiday then we’d be helping them in some small way.

A few kilometres down the road cyclists throng the streets of Girona. The Catalonian town has become famous as a hub for professionals who ride the local roads en route to the Grand Tours. Without doubt the cycling in the countryside around Girona offers much to commend it and yet just an hour’s drive across the French border, if you are a Madrileño, or in northern Catalunya if you are a Barceloní(na) is a small, little known French town called Céret nestling in the foothills of the foothills of the eastern Pyrenees where the riding, I would say, is just as good and in many ways better.