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Chris Marshall-Bell

The land of legends: Riding on Tadej Pogačar's home roads

A drone shot of a cyclist riding across a bridge over a Slovenian river.

October is travel month at Cycling Weekly, and in the second of four issues we've gone in search of new places to ride. From the roads on which Tadej Pogačar grew up to a luxurious escape in Cyprus via some barely rideable roads in Albania, here are the places you might soon be visiting on two wheels.  

“The great thing about cycling in Slovenia is that in less than one week you see a bit of everything,” says my guide Kristijan Koren as we descend the spectacular Vršič Pass and cross the first of many stone bridges over the impossibly emerald blue Soča River. 

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