We woke up this morning to a real pea-souper - could barely see to the opposite side of the car park through the fog. This changed our plans for the day! Originally we were going to get on the bikes and head out to the D-Day landing beaches. With the heavy fog around we decided to explore Bayeux and visit the beaches later in the day when we expected the fog to lift. After breakfast in a Patisserrie we wandered over to Bayeux Cathedral. The spires were hidden by...

Our visit to Andorra came to an end as we retraced on the bike where we had been in the bus yesterday - up to El Pas de la Casa. We then turned towards France. We were not stopped at the border gate so went merrily on our way. We have 3 days to ride north before visiting Normandy and then heading back to the UK. The roads were great, twisty and smooth with plenty of room to turn on the switchbacks - I'm sure Greg would have loved to be on his Daytona. The weathe...

We have given ourselves three days to ride to Spain. That should work out to be two 300km days and a big one of 400km - supposedly. After a coffee in our room we set off about 9am - seems to be the time we get everything on the bikes and are ready. This is our first day of riding with Chris. GPS navigation planning was done last night and the route agreed. The French countryside is beautiful. Lush green pastures, pine forests and quaint villages. We noticed tha...

We are off to France to attend the ANZAC Day Dawn Service at Villers Bretonneux. This is expected to be a huge commemoration as 2018 is the 100th anniversary of the WW1 battle at Villers Bretonneux. We had to apply to The Department of Veteran Affairs in Australia to attend this Service months ago and our passes arrived in the mail a week before we left home for this trip. After a great night's stay at The Holiday Inn Express at Folkestone we rode the 10 minutes...