Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
Pictures and updates from rides and trip
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]