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The Anonymous Optimist
That's our bike up there, waiting for us over the winter.It’s pretty cold here, the temperature hasn’t been above 5 degrees yet. On our first day we opted to do some shopping for extra thermal underwear, better winter gloves for riding and a few other bits...
31 March 2013
Away Again
Well we’re off on another European motorcycle odyssey so stay tuned for updates on where we are. Our plan is to ferry from the UK to Spain straight after Easter. There we’ll spend a month riding around, and then ferry across to Italy, ride across Italy in...
26 March 2013
Steeple Bumpstead and how to tour Europe by motorcycle
England has many strangely named villages, Giggleswick, Updown, Each End, Cow Roast, Crackpot, Netherthong, Nobottom, Dull andTwatt, just to name a tiny few. Steeple Bumpstead is just another, but it is significant because it is where we purchased a motorcycle...
23 March 2013
Dreamboat, one scene, many pictures
Every now and again a photographer encounters one of those magic situations when it all comes together, or maybe it is planned, like this one. Killing time in Bari (Italy) waiting a couple of days for a ferry to Croatia, we’d spent quite some time around the...
24 February 2013