Riding Through Spain

For England, we are having a lot of snow at the moment. It is cold. I saw a temperature of -11.5C the other day. Oddly this is almost the same amount in Fahrenheit -11.3F.My red bike is stuck in Ireland, awaiting the weather to improve so it can be road tested after having some work done on it. The...

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The Leading Ladies are stuck in LA

How about this for bureaucratic nonsense!It has been a few weeks since I delivered my bike, the “Leading Ladies” to the shipping agent in LA, so a few days ago I enquired about when the bike would be back in the UK. I was told by the shipping agent there is a problem as the US Customs people in LA wanted to see the original import paperwork before they are prepared to release the bike for shipping....

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Thousand Mile Photos

My regular readers will know that while I was on my tour, I stopped at every thousand miles point on my journey and took a photo looking forward. Most of the time, this meant just stopping, grabbing my point and shoot camera, jumping off my bike and taking a quick picture at the side of the road. I...

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Adjusting Back to Life in the UK

Okay, so I have been back home for a couple of weeks now and I have been very busy. It seemed strange having to re-adjust to life back in the UK. Of course being back with Jackie was wonderful, but getting used to driving on the left side of the road has proved to be remarkably difficult! Soon after...

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