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Category: Touring

  • Autumn tour day one.

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    This was originally billed as a full on Scottish Nc500 trip, but… The forecast for the Highlands is bloody awful for a few days so we are going a long way via Yorkshire and Northumberland while Scotland sorts itself out. Weather leaving home was fairly unpleasant but it was heading south and we were heading…

  • Vietnam Bike Tour – part V

    Vietnam Bike Tour – part V

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    Day four – 20 Oct 2015 After the excitement of day three and consequent late arrival at the hotel, this morning we are presented the choice of a boat trip to Phong Na cave, or a steep 330 step climb to Tien Son cave, that we would have done yesterday if we’d arrived early enough.…

  • Vietnam motorbike tour part IV – man down

    Vietnam motorbike tour part IV – man down

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    Another early start takes us out into the morning mist of busy Khe Sanh town on day three, just round the corner for breakfast at a street side open air pho (pronounced fur) shop. This is pho as good as it gets we are assured by those in the know. It’s authentic and tasty, but…

  • Vietnam motorbike tour part III

    Vietnam motorbike tour part III

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    My alarm is set for 6am, but the roosters and dogs of the village are set for an hour before that. It’s a misty start up here in the hills, where the village is already busy by the time we give in and get out of bed. After breakfast we head back out across the…

  • Vietnam motorbike tour part II

    Vietnam motorbike tour part II

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    Following the river crossing of limited success, Lee stays off the beaten track. We’ve been gaining altitude steadily all day and by now are into the jungle. We head along an extended loose, rocky path, dotted with small dwellings, piglets dashing from the undergrowth as we approach. For a complete off road noobie like me,…

  • Vietnam motorbike tour part I – Triskaidekaphilia

    Vietnam motorbike tour part I – Triskaidekaphilia

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    We fly up to Da Hang from Saigon, minibus to hotel and meet up with the rest of the gang: Boyd’s son Jake and his friends Nick and John. Next day, we are shuttled to the garage of the bike tour, where the central focus of this whole trip starts in earnest. We are introduced…

  • Good evening Vietnam

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    Big jolly this year is Vietnam. We have a motorbike tour for six days in the middle, bookended with city breaks in Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) and Hanoi. I used up pretty much all of my annual leave for this trip so by the middle of October was champing at the bit to get away.…

  • Black Sea by motorbike part VI

    Black Sea by motorbike part VI

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    9/7/2013 Hot and dry, rain later Over breakfast Ivan tells us how much better the country was under communism and about his concerns that gypsies will be mistaken for “real Bulgarians” when they are the first to travel to the UK en mass (this was just before the EU related restrictions were lifted). We  steer…

  • Black Sea by Motorbike part V

    Black Sea by Motorbike part V

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    7/7/13 Roasting Breakfast on a sunny terrace in Calarasi is accompanied by a pretty damn cool hummingbird hawk moth supping from the petunias just a foot or two away. I’ve no idea what it is but dad is old enough to have seen everything at least once and brings me up to speed. (I didn’t…

  • Black Sea by motorbike part IV

    Black Sea by motorbike part IV

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    Part IV of my adventures riding to the Black Sea and back on my motorbike. We wake up and emerge successfully from Room 101, relieved to find ourselves still part way up the mountain. It’s a cool but beautiful morning. The stallholders outside are bustling in preparation, bringing life and busyness to this peaceful alpine…