{"id":4648,"date":"2025-07-21T16:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?p=4648"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:45:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:45:58","slug":"riding-portugals-n2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?p=4648","title":{"rendered":"Riding Portugal&#8217;s N2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"227\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Chaves-strip-700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Chaves-strip-700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Chaves-strip-700-300x97.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Steve and his Rocket in Chaves at the start of the N2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The N2 is regarded as Portugal\u2019s \u201cRoute 66\u201d.\u00a0 Starting in the north at Chaves, it finishes in the southern city of Faro. Bibendum, who has been writing the monthly Berkshire Branch reports in the TOMCC magazine Nacelle since early 2024, rode the N2 on his 10 year old Triumph Rocket Roadster as part of a longer ride from southern England to Morocco. In this article, which was published in Nacelle in 2025, he tells the story of that epic ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/11_The-final-stamps-700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/11_The-final-stamps-700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/11_The-final-stamps-700-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The N2 &#8220;passport&#8221;  showing both start and end stamps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a &#8220;passport&#8221; issued which is stamped at the beginning and end of the ride and various checkpoint in between and gives official recognition of the achievement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>To read the article in full, click the button below. <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?page_id=4633\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The N2 is regarded as Portugal\u2019s \u201cRoute 66\u201d.\u00a0 Starting in the north at Chaves, it finishes in the southern city of Faro. Bibendum, who has been writing the monthly Berkshire Branch reports in the TOMCC magazine Nacelle since early 2024, rode the N2 on his 10 year old Triumph Rocket Roadster as part of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?p=4648\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Riding Portugal&#8217;s N2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4651,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions\/4651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}