Cycling — BOWIE BLOG — A BIKE RIDE WITH DAVID BOWIE

Bowie and Bullfighting

MEET IGGY

“Every bike needs a good name” says friendly local Yolanda. Introducing Iggy…

BONJOUR FRANCE

My David Bowie bike ride From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads continues over the Pyrenees from Spain into France.

!Hola surrealism, Hola Figueres¡

After a sun-scorched ride through Catalonia I land in Figueres, the home of Salvador Dali, to explore how his surrealist art influenced and inspired David Bowie, that and got trapped in a tidal wave of old French women at the Dali museum.

The pain in Southern Spain

As I leave Barcelona under the blaze of midday sun and set out along cycling along the Costa Brava searching for David Bowie and his legacy

Bowie's Barcelona

For Bowie’s Bowie first ever gig on the Spanish mainland there was swings, telephones, spoken word song introductions, blinding visuals and backing dancers all embroidered together for the largest touring set ever. Bowie thought of it as taking a musical on the road.

The mid-life crisis just got real

On 11th September, 2016, aged 36, I did likewise, leaving London to look for the meaning of David Bowie’s Life on Mars? and in doing so, abandoning all sense of reality. On a glorious autumn morning, with the sky as blue as the suit Bowie wore in the song’s video, I loaded up and turned to face the strangest journey I would ever undertake.