I'm Off Then
June 28, 2023 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
Leaving on my epic (for me) trip to the arctic via Scotland where it is pretty arctic anyway.
Cabezas Rubias
June 28, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Breakfast with the blondes
Bee Stop
June 28, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Forced eviction of buzzy thing hitch hiking in helmet
Bike Dealer
June 28, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
After years struggling to find Ducati dealers I pull off the motorway at Mertola to have a leak and find....
Day 1
June 28, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 37 °C
Landed for the day near Talavera as in Shape's Eagle. E33 for a room, somewhere to park my bike round the back under the washing lines and I can eat dinner here. 470 k....less than I might wish forRead more
Guadalajara
June 29, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Through Madrid... very scary with lots of junctions joining in the fast lane and a lorry reversing down the motorway because he had overshot the badly signposted junction to Zaragoza.... and allRead more
Villanueva de Gallego
June 29, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Well that is better... beyond Zaragoza and it is only lunch time......and I found lunch too!
Castillo de Loarre
June 29, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Well this was waypoint 1 and I had hoped to be posting drone pics but very windy and now RAINING. My first night under canvass in 50 years!
Igiés. Breakfast
June 30, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Well getting the tent down and packed in a gale was a bit of a struggle. Of course I had to give up filming the castle but whole area is very lovely so I am sure I will be back
Roquefort
June 30, 2023 in France ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Seriously pretty coming over the mountains. They are building an autopista but only sections of it are finished. Raining but hey ho
Very Damp
July 1, 2023 in France ⋅ 🌧 18 °C
Well it is wet. Very wet. I have to say this has put thoughts of le camping out of my mind for this evening with a warm brick tent to replace it. So far my favorite bit of France is this croissant
Uh Oh.....
July 1, 2023 in France ⋅ 🌬 23 °C
Saint Jean D'Angely so riots in Nantes.....quick cancellation of my hotel in the middle and now staying in the smallest village I could find to the south. Oh dear....
Fontaines
July 1, 2023 in France ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
Well I seem to have escaped the riots, at least for tonight, by hiding in a Gite in the middle of nowhere......but a very nice nowhere
Mont St Michel
July 2, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Dull windy day but it is still very impressive
Caen
July 3, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Staying close to the port, lots of history but not very pretty so here are some sunflowers I flew over instead
Ouistreham
July 4, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
No Breakfast!
Pompey
July 4, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
I wonder how long it will take me to get through arrivals
Drenched
July 4, 2023 in England ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
Well Portsmouth was fine but on the way towards Oxford it rained a bit....then more....then torrents of the bloody stuff. Deep standing water all over the road, huge spray from too fast lorries and IRead more
Alnwick
July 5, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
I can't remember whether it is Alnwick or Berwick which is still at war with Scotland but there are some seriously nice places in this neck of the woods.....including where I am staying tonight pickedRead more
Holy Island
July 6, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
We can have a wee wee, we can have a wet on the wall.....dink dink
Scotland
July 6, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
So a few hours early. Need to sort out charging problems.
Dundee
July 7, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Got to Dundee....wedding over the bridge to the south tomorrow.....oh, and I did find some penguins!
Wedding
July 9, 2023 in Scotland ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
Right that is my daughter Tamsin hitched! Just a fabulous day although I confess to flagging towards the end. So....now to head south towards Hull where I get the ferry to Holland. I have a problemRead more
Le nouveau régime
July 9, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
So I am pretty sure when I get to Norway beer will be off the menu so.....Jack and diet Coke is the new regime....experimenting at a campsite on an old airfield close to Alnwick

































































