Well, what should have been a straight forward 2 hour ride from Konstanz to Baden Baden turned into an frustrating 6 hour ride due to road closures and diversions which took us round and round in circles! We set off from Konstanz looking forward to a short hour ride until we started on the famous B500 glorious route through the Black Forest, some 3 hours later we arrived in Fruedenstadt after encountering numerous road closures and what seemed like a circular de...

We started off our day beneath the towering peaks of the Alps and finished it under the towering canopies of an avenue of giant redwoods. Our journey took us through Zus and Lech as we travelled along the Ahlberg pass, turn after turn gave us stupendous views which were absolutely incredible. We travelled for an hour and a half along roads with sweeping bends which climbed up and down through gorges. It was an amazing ride made even more enjoyable by the complete...

"Oh the places we shall go, the people we shall see and the adventures we shall have." So we're off again on our travels to, as Colin tells people who ask where we are going, "to Albania and back!" Our adventure started yesterday as we got into the M56 at Warrington and the following hazard message flashed up "warning brake failure" so what did my intrepid adventura do? Yep, you guessed it, he gave the front and back brake a squeeze and when they worked ok that...