Experiment

The Garage Cafe in Goia The Very Start, what can I say? Taking a Royal Enfield on a big ride in the country where it's manufactured, owned by the industrialists who live there it had to be a good move. Landrover, train, plane, taxi I was there walking across a wet Baga road to the Royal Enfield Garage Cafe in the Ayuna district of Goa. I was in India, I loved it, QUOTE

20th May It's the last blog. I'm exhausted but I ,ade it to Amsterdam, to Yamaha's HQ near Schiphol airport where I was welcomed back. It was nice to be back. I've been with Yamaha since 2001, such a long time. Faithful sponsors who have supported me well for 23 years. So it's thank you to them, thank you also to Route YC from Yorkshire who sadly have gone into administration and are no more, but te lady who ran it - Kerry - did more than her best but it wasn't to be but than

19th May Map of the Day

18th May Why the upside down sign posts? Philippe Bardy, leader of the main agricultural union, the FNSEA, in Tarn said: “Government...

I love old fashioned France, the bits that peel off walls, crumble on the ground underneath rain stained posters advertising the customary '

16th May Reality resists classification which is exactly what this journey is all about. I'm sprinting across France, Belgium and The...

15th May The journey has restarted from Bordeaux and I rode 40 miles from Bordeaux to a small town / village Saint Medard de Guizieres. I...

7th May No words today Map of the Day

8th May Early hours on the mountain pass out of Pamplona, raining hard, stiff headwind all the previous day, tired, feeling dark, a gloom...

6th May Juan Garcia - Yamaha Motor Madrid + + + = Map of the Day

29th April The bike has not had a single mechanical issue in nearly 30,000 kms. One single chain change, one change of brake pads, same...