Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
Motorbikes – the places we go and the people we meet: Part 4 A curiously clean bike I mentioned in Part 3 that I had brought my bike into the courtyard at the Hotel Sao Joao de Deus in Elvas. There was one other bike there – a UK registered Yamaha Tracer 7 (the 700cc […]
Motorbikes – the places we go and the people we meet: Part 3 Part 1 and Part 2 covered the start of this road trip and my journey down to Vimioso in Portugal. Read on to find out about the journey and my stay in Trujillo. Join me on the ride to the town of […]
Ride Spain & Portugal: places we see & people we meet Part 2 The information I wrote in Part 1 gave some background to this years trip. Here in Part 2 I head from the ferry for the town of Ojedo then down to Vimioso in Portugal. A change of plan before I left home […]
Ride Spain & Portugal: places we see & people we meet Part 1 Regular readers will know I have been travelling on my motorbikes for a good number of years, and for the last 20 or so have done some terrific European Trips. I wrote a couple of weeks ago that I was getting ready […]
Write up and pictures on the way from a top class road trip I wrote a couple of days ago that I was just back from a fabulous road trip in Spain and Portugal. I’ve spent the last few days sifting and sorting through photographs and I can confirm that the first couple of sections […]
Back from a magnificent road trip – in Spain and Portugal I was back home yesterday (Wednesday 09 October), from a fantastic road trip and one that quite easily makes my top three solo road trips. I’ll make a start writing up the details and posting the pictures, but in a early spoiler it’s fair […]
Four in a row: and getting ready for sunshine and warm roads This summer seems to have had so many similarities to the summer of 2023 – not enough sunshine and way too much rain. You may recall that last year I had planned, and booked, a couple of weeks in Ireland and Scotland. Such […]
Motorcycling in the Emerald Isle – make life a ride. Part 4. Each time I have been to Ireland I have made the trip through Killarney National Park and onto the Healy Pass.This trip was to be no exception. The Healy Pass is beautiful and takes you over the county line between Kerry and Cork. […]
Motorcycling in the Emerald Isle – make life a ride. Part 3. I wrote earlier about this trip in two earlier posts, f you want to check back on those you can use these links to go back to Part 1 and Part 2. This part (Part 3) kicks off after I had spent two […]
Motorcycling in the Emerald Isle – make life a ride. Part 2. Breakfast was good at the Kees Hotel and I had decided over coffee that I would head off to Killybegs a town in County Donegal and the largest fishing port in the country. Location wise it’s to the north of Donegal Bay, which […]