Day 2 – 1st July 2020 – Somewhere mid Bay of Biscay/Santander After a pretty good nights rest and a fairly good breakfast am now sitting watching the sea go by. This ship is really cold, I’m not sure why, maybe they are trying to freeze the arse off the covid germs?? As suspected, …
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Hell’s Grammy Goes Gobi… maybe!
Day 1 – 30th June 2020 – London to Portsmouth As promised here is a photo of the bike just as I am about to leave home… stunning… I turn out of my drive into the road and Minnie is very unhappy, the front end is twitching about like mad! It is so bad I …
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…On…
Yes, due to the lockdown relaxation in UK my ferry is now sailing on the 30th so that means less than a week to get myself organised.. eek! So, that was a week ago and I have been non stop preparing with no time to blog. I am catching the ferry from Portsmouth to Santander, …
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ON, OFF, ON….???
Time to make some decisions… my ferry booking to Santander has not been cancelled yet, although Brittany Ferries is not currently running passenger services and are cancelling sailings up to the 28th June, mine is still a possibility. However, the restrictions around Covid-19 in various countries may be the final nail in the tyre!! Spain …
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Hold the phone…
The trip to Mongolia is off. It was pretty much a definite possibility but unfortunately, due to various reasons this is now not happening. However, we are now thinking of a Balkan Bimble.. riding to Moldova to enjoy some of the fantastic biking roads there are in-between. We also want to visit Dracula’s castle in …
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Grannies Go Gobi
Ok so for the last few months I have been in discussions with my very good friend Sylvie about taking a couple of bikes, overland, to Mongolia in August. I have to think seriously about what bike I would use, obviously the Harleys are not the ideal bikes for travelling across countries like Kazakhstan etc. …
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WRWR – Last Day
1st May 2019 – WRWR Day 64, My Day 7 So dawns the last day of my trip to take part in WRWR again. Colette will continue on with the WRWR from Amersfoort to Sweden and through Scandinavia. Trui, Mar and I will make our way out of Utrecht taking fast roads to Ghent where …
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WRWR – Double Dutch..
Tuesday 30th April 2019 WRWR Day 63 – My Day 6. So today is my last leg in WRWR, and I must say I am quite glad. I’m also sad to be leaving my new firm friends, Colette, Mar and Trui, whose company I have enjoyed immensly, however group riding of this magnitude and duration …
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What a Load of Cobblers….
Monday 29th April 2019 – WRWR Day 62 – My day 5 Wow.. this morning everything is covered in a thick fog… I can’t even see out of the end of Hilde’s driveway. Nevertheless, we must make our way to the gathering point… carefully. Hilde leads the way and some 10kms onwards towards a restaurant …
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WRWR Luxembourg/Belgium
Sunday 28th April 2019 – WRWR Day 61, My Day 4 Am up early again to get myself over to Bollendorf and meet the group riding today to Bruxelles, via Luxembourg. We are meeting at a petrol station just over the border in Luxembourg. Bollendorf is on the river that constitutes the border so …
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