Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
Come on spring, come on summer – lets have some good weather Although it’s still only early April, my mind has been wandering back to last year and the prolonged period of dismal weather that stayed across the UK and parts of Europe for way too long. Anyone remember the names of the various storms […]
Motorcycle Spain & Portugal – sunshine & warm roads. Part 7. This is the last part of the series of blog posts that chronicle my 2023 Spain and Portugal trip. In Part 6 I wrote about leaving the Pias Guesthouse in Portugal and heading for Andalusia. This final section has information about my trip after […]
Motorcycle Spain & Portugal – sunshine & warm roads. Part 6. The next stage of my trip saw me leaving the decent Pias Guesthouse that I wrote about in Part 5 and heading out of Portugal and into Spain. I made a route that took initially took me east, heading for Aroche, Aracena, Carmon and […]
Motorcycle Spain & Portugal – sunshine & warm roads. Part 5. Of course all good things come to an end and it was time for me to move on from Mantiegas. The couple of nights I spent in Mantiegas and the riding in the Serra da Estrela that I wrote about in the Part 4 […]
Motorcycle Spain & Portugal – sunshine & warm roads. Part 4. It was time to move on from my overnight stay in Braganca and that I wrote about in Part 3 It was time for me to head further south and down to the town of Mantiegas in the Centro Region of Portugal. Once again […]
Motorcycle Spain & Portugal – sunshine & warm roads. Part 3. My overnight stay at the Hotel Infantado had been good. As I said in Part 2 I would have no hesitation at all in staying at this accomodation again. It’s ideally located for the the start or the end of a trip if leaving […]
Motorcycle Spain & Portugal – sunshine & warm roads. Part 2. When I posted Part 1 I mentioned I had stayed overnight in Mudford at The Half Moon Inn & Country Lodge Staying at the Half Moon left me with less than 100 miles to do after breakfast to reach the Brittany Ferries terminal in […]
Motorcycle Spain & Portugal – sunshine & warm roads. Part 1. I wrote in a recent post that I was off to find the sunshine and warm roads in Spain and Portugal. It had been a while since I had been there. In fact it was 2018 and pre Covid when I was last there […]
Home from a magnificent road trip in Spain and Portugal Just back from a quite brilliant road trip traveling down through the Pico’s Portugal and on then onto Andalusia for a few days. I had said in my last post that I was off to find sunshine and warm roads and that’s exactly what I […]
Off to find the sunshine and warm roads in Spain & Portugal. I’m about to head off to Spain and Portugal for what promises to be a decent bike trip, and it’s a trip I mentioned a week or two ago. I’ll be traveling via Brittany Ferries on the Plymouth/Santander crossing. Although my journey will […]