This is the second part of the Blog post covering a recent trip to Spain and Portugal. You can read Part One, here. After leaving my accommodation in Boca de Huérgano, I decided to head for Sobrado a small place in Galicia in the north-west of Spain. I made a booking at the Hotel Rural […]
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I returned last week from another wonderful solo trip, this time traveling in Spain and Portugal. I was last there in September last year when my wife and I started off with some time in the Picos de Europa before heading to Galicia and then working our way down into Portugal before traveling further into […]
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By any measure and any standards, I had a fantastic trip through Spain and Portugal and over the next few days I will start to post write ups with plenty of pictures of course. Great roads, accommodation and weather – all in all pretty much perfect. Watch this space over the next couple of days […]
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Difficult family circumstances meant that I had to cancel and re-schedule a road trip that I was due to set off on at the start of this month (July). The new start date for the trip is now looming and in between sorting a whole range of things out that followed the passing of my […]
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For various reasons I have been up and down the motorways to Cardiff and back a great deal, and much more than usual in the last six weeks or so. Give or take a few miles it’s the best part of a 400 mile round trip. If you get the timing right and when traveling […]
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Couldn’t say no really to a few miles on the RnineT yesterday – probably only did about 100 miles all so all told, but the superb weather made it worthwhile and I went crazy at my regular coffee stop and had two mugs of coffee instead of my normal one cup – I know living […]
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I needed to be in Cardiff earlier this week and with the current spell of scorching hot weather it made choosing a bike over the car a total no brainer. My bike of choice for the 400 mile round trip was the Kawasaki Vulcan – and it was a real sense of looking forward to […]
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We nipped out for a leisurely evening drive earlier this week and stopped off at a Cheshire pub, as we were leaving we saw an open garage in the pub grounds (which I think belongs to the landlord), once I had spotted a couple of bikes we wandered over for a quick look and a […]
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Warm sunshine, blue sky and a few hours to spare made for an ideal recipe to roll the Moto Guzzi V7 out of the garage yesterday and to head out for a coffee. Other afternoon commitments meant that I didn’t have a full day – but I was happy enough with the few hours I […]
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You never quite know what you are going to stumble on, and yesterday evening as I was returning from a walk I saw a couple pulling up outside their home pulling a trailer on the back of their 4×4 – and on that trailer was an intriguing old bike. Perhaps not surprisingly and like most […]
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