Day 4 – Ruoms to Conques
by I slept incredibly well on the airbed again and wake up just before dawn. I was lying there for a while and thought about the …
Day 3 – Sunday is a day off
Yesterday evening I decided to stay here for the day. I woke with first sunlight this morning, the airbed I brought with me was incredibly …
Day 2 – Thoirette to Ruoms
The “Auberge de Thoire” was great (link here). It was a very slightly quirky (in a good way), very friendly with great home-cooked food (breakfast …
Day 1 – home to Thoirette (France)
Well, I´ve been pretty lucky with the weather which is always good. I started with a bit of a mixed bag of cloud, the odd …
“Grey, dear friend, is all theory and green the golden tree of life” (Goethe)
And he had a good point. T´is the day before leaving, I made a pile of stuff to pack, started packing and was overawed by …
My camping list for a two week tour in western Europe by motorcycle
This is a list of things (which I shall update) to take on the above tour. This is my first attempt to formalise the list, …
Why I love travelling by motorcycle
Feel the air flowing past, feel the machine running below you, become part of it and it becomes part of you, the intensity of the …
Time has passed
Well, time has now flown past, the internet address is now formally linked to these pages and it is definitely time to put pen to …
In the beginning…
“Die reinste Form des Wahnsinns ist es, alles beim Alten zu lassen und gleichzeitig zu hoffen, dass sich etwas ändert.” Translates as: „the purest form …