Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
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 […]
Superb day on the BMW F900 XR – out and about in North Wales The change in the weather in the last week was welcome and I intended to make the most of it. On the previous day my wife and I had headed off (in the car) to Ambleside in the Lake District, but […]
BMW F900 XR The Old Stores motor bike cafe & Horseshoe Pass. The recent upturn in the weather has meant that in the last couple of weeks I have been able to get out on each of my bikes. A few days earlier I had headed to Cheshire on the Moto Guzzi V7 and stopped […]
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 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 […]