Almost done with this trip. All that remains is to fly from Chicago to London, stay one night and then fly home to Brisbane. While waiting at Chicago O'Hare Airport we were tempted to stay another night. Why? I'm sure you are curious when we have stated a few times in recent blogs that we are ready to go home. American airlines have a strange system of selling tickets for flights. They over-sell the flight in the hope that some passengers will not turn up - th...

The overnight sea route across the English Channel from the Hook of Holland to Harwich in England is more like a cruise ship holiday than transport on a vehicular ferry. Resplendant with ensuite TV equipped cabins, restaurants, duty free shopping, movie theatre and coffee shops make the overnight voyage very relaxing. When coupled with a beer or wine or two it is easy to sleep the journey away in your cabin and wake up safe and sound in Old Blighty. Around 7pm w...

"The good news is we will be riding on the Autobahn for the next two days," says Greg this sunny Monday morning. Then he says "The bad news is we will be riding on the Autobahn for the next two days!" Good news because the roads are fantastic and you can cover lots of kilometres in a short time. Bad news for Greg because his concentration levels need to be spot on to negotiate the huge number of unpredictable trucks, the roadworks and speeding cars - just to kee...

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...

Heading back towards the UK has left us with mixed emotions. During our time on the Continent we have seen so much and ticked off several boxes on our bucket list however as we have been riding for five weeks we are a little tired. We have a week to ride back to Felixstowe to drop off the bike before the next part of our holiday. As we have travelled through this part of Europe on several occassions we have tried to include some places that we haven't been to be...