Episode 6 That place where Lyn posted the last blog entry was Voronez. She couldn't think of it at the time and didn’t have the map with her. David had spotted a very large shopping centre and we had pulled it. It was an Auchan centre, this is a French company and we shopped in their supermarket in Dunkerque. This brand new centre had 100’s of shops, many leading brand names, and at one end there was WIFI available in some cafes that sold coffee for ...

Episode 5 Lyn went up to London and collected the passports from the Chinese visa agency on a glorious summer day and enjoyed a walk right from Monument tube station to the visa place then on past St Pauls to Blackfriars bridge and alone the Embankment as far as Westminster Abbey. Being such a lovely sunny day there was a great many people about enjoying the sunshine as well as the usual hordes of camera clicking tourists. She says that she sat on a bench and ...

Well! I've been told now that we are most likely to be off to France on Friday if all goes well with those Chinese visas on Thursday. I had a good few hours in London on Monday. Meet three of the chaps that will be on the motorbikes through China with us. Don't think they were very impressed by my presence, perhaps when they see my riding skills later in the trip they will be more impressed. I did get taken to see a gold exhibition but then had to be put in the ...

Episode 3 Today I was put in the car and taken from Neport Pagnell to the War Museum at Duxford. As its called a war museum it is mostly comprised of aircraft the were used in all the wars.The first building was dedicated to restored planes and they covered a big floor space and there was planes from the first world war to Concord.I had my photo taken with a lot of themand actually sat in concord that was the fastest passenger plane in the world at 1420mph goin...