We woke this morning to the sad news that IOM TT racer William Dunlop had died during practice for the Skerries Road Race in Ireland. William was the son of Robert Dunlop and nephew of Joey Dunlop both who also died while road racing. R.I.P William. We thought our ride today would be about 385 km but Greg did a bit more research and we only ended up having to ride 285 km. We spent most of the ride on country roads passing fruit orchards, pine forests and farmlan...

With our visit to Lithuania done and dusted it was off to Poland. The border was only a few kilometers down the road but our destination was 330km away in Warsaw. We have visited Poland twice before, once to pay our respects at Auschwitz and the second time to check out Hitler's Eastern Front stronghold - The Wolf's Lair (Remember the movie 'Valkyre'). This visit would see us in Warsaw and Krakow - 2 nights in each. Before we could start our sightseeing though, ...

Our day started in the best possible way. We got a Facebook phone call from some of our grandkids. Greg was where he always is first thing in the morning - the bathroom, when our grandson Tom called him, Kerrie was still in bed. We chatted to Tom, Hayley, William, Stacey and Brett for about 20 minutes and the best thing is - it was all for free through Facebook Messenger. We could even show them around our room and the view from our hotel window - isn't technolog...

After paying our respects to Joey Dunlop we headed out of Tallinn. Our ride today was about 330km and we would leave Estonia and arrive in Latvia - there really is no other way to go when heading south! Our route today took us through the countryside on a single lane each-way highway. The road surface was smooth but the number of trucks using this road made progress slow at times. The good news however was the added half lane at the side of the road that conside...

Waking to a rainy day is never good if you travel by motorbike. Luckily today we only had less than 20km to ride - yes, for the whole day. The first 17km was from our hotel to the ferry terminal in Helsinki. Once we found the right road, after the GPS had taken us 3km up the road in the wrong direction, the rest was easy. We arrived at the ferry check in just as they started processing passengers and were soon lined up with 4 other bikes ready to board. This tim...