I'm Off Then
28 июня 2023 г., Испания ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
Leaving on my epic (for me) trip to the arctic via Scotland where it is pretty arctic anyway.
Cabezas Rubias
28 июня 2023 г., Испания ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Breakfast with the blondes
Bee Stop
28 июня 2023 г., Испания ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Forced eviction of buzzy thing hitch hiking in helmet
Bike Dealer
28 июня 2023 г., Испания ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
After years struggling to find Ducati dealers I pull off the motorway at Mertola to have a leak and find....
Day 1
28 июня 2023 г., Испания ⋅ ☀️ 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 forЧитать далее
Guadalajara
29 июня 2023 г., Испания ⋅ ☀️ 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 allЧитать далее
Villanueva de Gallego
29 июня 2023 г., Испания ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Well that is better... beyond Zaragoza and it is only lunch time......and I found lunch too!
ПутешественникActually the lentajas for starters had hairy bits in it....a pig which had not shaved for a bit methinks.....and the squid was only cooked on the outside and still pulsing inside so back to lunch insufficiency
Castillo de Loarre
29 июня 2023 г., Испания ⋅ ☁️ 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
30 июня 2023 г., Испания ⋅ ⛅ 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
30 июня 2023 г., Франция ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Seriously pretty coming over the mountains. They are building an autopista but only sections of it are finished. Raining but hey ho
ПутешественникActually the whole place reeks of cheese! Nothing subtle about it! French food seems to have become 'fast' and dare I say it 'American '
Very Damp
1 июля 2023 г., Франция ⋅ 🌧 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
Very dmp here too this morning, but sun out now. You’re making good progress, just take care of wet greasy roads and pillaging French.... [Jeanne]
Uh Oh.....
1 июля 2023 г., Франция ⋅ 🌬 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
1 июля 2023 г., Франция ⋅ 🌬 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
2 июля 2023 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Dull windy day but it is still very impressive
Caen
3 июля 2023 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Staying close to the port, lots of history but not very pretty so here are some sunflowers I flew over instead
ПутешественникHad a lovely week there seeing the Bayeaux tapestry and cathedral, then got stuck at marina sea end of canal for another week because of bad weather, they wouldn't open lock gates, now that was boring x
Used to fly to Caen from Jersey in a Dakota....for weekends in Paris! [Jeanne Latham]
Ouistreham
4 июля 2023 г., Франция ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
No Breakfast!
ПутешественникThere is a rue Philippe Kieffer in ousterham ....... he was my great uncle
Pompey
4 июля 2023 г., Англия ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
I wonder how long it will take me to get through arrivals
Drenched
4 июля 2023 г., Англия ⋅ 🌧 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 IЧитать далее
Alnwick
5 июля 2023 г., Англия ⋅ ☁️ 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 pickedЧитать далее
ПутешественникHope you get the USB fixed, and the tyre, and the weather gets better.... xx 😘
ПутешественникWhat a beautiful place. Amazing that it should be the cheapest. Enjoy! Xxx
ПутешественникReally nasty weather, but a beautiful place you have found. Is that really a chair on the roof??
Holy Island
6 июля 2023 г., Англия ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
We can have a wee wee, we can have a wet on the wall.....dink dink
Scotland
6 июля 2023 г., Англия ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
So a few hours early. Need to sort out charging problems.
ПутешественникIt would appear you are the only one who wants to go to scotland: not a car in sight!
Dundee
7 июля 2023 г., Шотландия ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Got to Dundee....wedding over the bridge to the south tomorrow.....oh, and I did find some penguins!
Wedding
9 июля 2023 г., Шотландия ⋅ 🌧 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 problemЧитать далее
ПутешественникOh dear Spike, wouldn't things be boring if everything went to plan, hope you get everything sorted x
Le nouveau régime
9 июля 2023 г., Англия ⋅ ☁️ 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
Scandinavia is good biking - Piers (Markham) and I had a blast in 2005!jx [Justin Tunstall]
ПутешественникDid you now! Where did you go? And could you afford the beer!
I’m following you Spike, but can’t seem to do likes even though I now have a findpenguin account. Anyway, mind how you go....still awaiting pics of wedding with you in kilt? Xx [Jeanne]
