riding bikes and doing other things
As Lockdown restrictions are eased, and (hopefully) we head towards the latter stages of the restrictions, this post sees me arrive towards the end of my Lockdown Lookback series with Part 11. If you missed Part 10 you can read it here. Links to earlier parts in the Lockdown Lookback series (parts 1 to 9) […]
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This post goes back to a 5,000 mile European trip that I did in 2015 and that I had mentioned in the previous Lockdown Lookback Part 7. In some respects it was a trip of two parts – the first part was with three friends making our way from the Spanish port of Bilbao, […]
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Part 7 of this series of ‘lookback’s continnues with from Part 6 with biking activity from 2013 before moving onto 2014. You can find Part 8 here. This was another good and really enjoyable biking period, it was also a time that saw another another change of bike. I loved the Honda CB1000 R. In […]
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This is the sixth and final part of my write up following a very decent trip in Spain and Portugal, although I will write a sort of supplementary post that picks up on a few general issues and reflections on the trip, and if you’re at all interested in what I think of the BMW […]
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I’ve said for a long time that you can tour on any sort of bike, and ultimately it’s hard for me to imagine any bike that doesn’t come with some sort of compromise. Clearly depending what your expectations are and what you want from your bike will depend on the level of compromise. My earlier […]
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In my previous trip post I wrote about riding along the Dalmation Coast, past Dubrovnik and onto the pretty seaside town of Cavtat. I stayed in Cavtat for one night before heading back up the coast and then into the mountains – my destination was the small town of Ubdina in the Lika region of […]
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After my overnight stay down near Novo mesto in Slovenia I decided to head into Croatia. By this stage of the trip the weather had certainly warmed up with some fabulous vistas set off by wonderful blue sky. During the first part of the day I was by and large on empty and quiet roads […]
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In Part One of the notes from my most recent trip/wanderings around Europe I said that I had headed off across Germany and then spent a couple of days traveling in Poland. My second stay in Poland had been at the very decent Hotel Sahara not to far from Bielsko-Biała . I decided that from […]
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Back in August of last year (2016) I published my first book, What if you don’t break down? – a tale of my 5,000 mile motorcycle trip in central Europe, across Northern Spain then down the Mediterranean side of Italy to Pompeii and then to the Sorrento/Amalfi coast. After that, I rode across to the […]
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