Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
The sounds and the smells that tell us summer is on the way. There’s nothing quite like the smell of cut grass, especially after the first cut of Spring. There is something quite uplifting about the freshness of that smell. Couple that smell with the lifting of the cold and grey of winter and the […]
Motorbikes in the garage and waiting for the better weather What else is there to say my bikes are in the garage and I’m waiting for some better weather. I mentioned in my last post about the notion of fair weather biking – but these days even the thought of getting on my bike to […]
Ho Ho Ho – it’s that time of year so Merry Christmas to you. It’s that time of the year again. As we head towards the end of 2024 it’s time to send out best wishes to one and all. Some of us (in the UK) will have pretty much hung up our riding boot […]
Motorbikes – the places we go and the people we meet: Part 8 This is the final part of the 2024 Spain & Portugal trip blogs and starts with the day when it really did start to feel like the back end of the 2024 trip. I had decided to head for the walled city […]
Motorbikes – the places we go and the people we meet: Part 7 This is the penultimate post following my 2024 Spain and Portugal trip, if you have missed earlier posts you can get the previous part here, or go back to Part One at this link. In Part 6 I had written about travelling […]
Motorbikes – the places we go and the people we meet: Part 6 I really enjoyed my three night stay in Ronda, (see Part 5) and I think it’s a place that I will return to. It really is so well positioned for great motorcycle riding in that part of Andalusia. If I’d get to […]
Motorbikes – the places we go and the people we meet: Part 5 As much as I had loved my time in Evora and that I wrote about in Part 4, it was time for me to move on. I didn’t expect to be back in Portugal on this trip. The next place I had […]
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 […]