Category: Triumph Tiger 1050

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…

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…

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…

Part III of my adventures riding to the Black Sea and back on my motorbike. 4/7/2013 Day 8 Hot and dry with showers later We say au revoir to our French friends and head out of Budapest. It’s 9am and the digital temperature signs are already showing  31°C. The motorway to Romania is long, flat…

Part II of my adventures riding to the Black Sea and back on my motorbike. 30/6/2013 Day 4 Dry We’ve done Germany  a fair bit before, and it’s not the focus of this trip, so today is all about going east until we get to Prague, 400 miles away. The wooded hills that we start…