Whilst writing the previous post I came across my list of stuff to do for my holiday to Norway. So lets see how I’m doing so far: Plan route (I’m leaving this one to dad) Buy Guernsey->UK tickets Buy UK->Norway tickets Buy new motorcycle helmet Buy intercom unit Buy bike luggage Service bike Install intercom unit & bike alarm Locate possible...

Most people will answer this with a simple “When you’ve packed your bags and are walking out of the door!”. But is that really the answer? Maybe the question I’m asking is a bit more metaphysical or rhtorical.For me, my current journey started some time earlier this year when I decided to embark on a motorcycle touring holiday to Norway this summer. ...

Apr 1, 2005

When I went on holiday last weekend I took my camera with my, fully intending to stop as often as possible to take pictures of the scenery from the seat of my bike. These are the results: As you can probably tell, the joy of riding got the better of me. The result being that I was so in awe of my bike I only took pictures of that when I could finally drag...

Continuing from earlier… when I arrived at Poole harbour on Monday afternoon I was tired and hungry as I’d been riding all morning and hadn’t eat since breakfast as I was unable to get to Bucklers Hard in the New Forest. All I wanted was to be able to sit down and have something to eat.That wasn’t to be though, as soon as I had parked up my bike I and...

My last ride of the holiday in the UK was from Cheltenham down to Poole so I could catch the ferry to come home again. The ferry wasn’t until 4:00pm so I decided to set off earlier in the morning so that I could spend some time in the New Forest and possibly go down to Bucklers Hard (an old ship building yard thats now a museum). I managed to follow my...