Riding through the lush Czech and German countryside is a motorcycle rider's dream. Wonderful weather, sweeping curves, great roads, sweet smelling pine forests and everything green, green, green. There were lakes between the groves of pine trees and motorcyclists were everywhere - well the fact that it was Saturday and a weekend could have had something to do with the numerous bikers! Motorcycling nirvana you might say. Our ride today was just over 300 km, ab...

Riding in the rain is every rider's nightmare but we think we have come up with a solution to this problem. Are you intrigued? We were not quite finished with the Moselle River when we left Cochem as we still had an hour of riding before we got to Koblenz. After that however it was pretty much freeway all day. It was also really cold - had everything on that we could fit under our jackets - with wind chill from riding it was only 2 degrees for most of the day. ...

Meandering stream or bubbling brook? This is an unanswered question! The last few days of riding unfortunately have shed no light on this question. We have however, been near water for the whole time. Read on and all will be revealed. After collecting the bike we rode to Harwich to catch the ferry to the Hook of Holland. We were pleasantly surprised when we were allocated a 5 berth family cabin instead of the 2 berth we had booked - got to be lucky sometimes. Af...