We spent the last couple of days hopping across the German and French borders several times. Next stop was Strasbourg for 2 reasons. Kerrie has seen pictures of this pretty town on the edge of France and more importantly, it is a good place to stay for someone who wants to ride the B500 which goes from Baden Baden to Freudenstadt - we will ride it both ways Greg says - if it is worth it! Strasbourg is on the border of France and Germany but is in France. This wa...

We left Olbia at 8am to ride the 60 km to our ferry in Santa Teresa Gullura. The ride was a lovely start to the day with the sun shining and the roads climbing over the hills before descending to the coast. Sardinia has been great but it is time to move on. We watched the ferry pull in to the port and unload. We were first to ride on and soon we were on our way. The trip was only 50 minutes and nice and smooth. The arrival in to Bonifacio, Corsica is spectacular...

We are now down to our last 5 days; the bike needs to be back in Felixstowe by Friday. Les decided he would travel with us as we return to the UK. After consultation we decided to head south into Belgium and head for Ypres as our destination for the day. Greg plotted the course on Tom Tom and discovered that we would not be far from Waterloo so that was to be our first stop as neither Les nor Chris had been there. We arrived at the mound about lunchtime. The b...

Monday 16.05.2011 to Wed 18.05.2011 - we left our digs near Le Mans and rode north to Dieppe where we had booked to catch the ferrie to Newhaven in England. We found there was about another 35 bikers queued up with us and when we found the ferry was delayed 4 hours due to engine problems (sounds ominous!) and we walked around admiring each others bikes and talking about nothing in particular except of course - bikes! We finally sailed at 7 pm with an expect...

Friday, Saturday & Sunday - 13 to 15th May 2011. We actually stayed at a small village about 68 km north-east to Le Mans called Nogent Le Rotrou. It was the only accommodation we could find with everything in Le Mans and closer surrounds fully booked. We discovered the hotel had about 6-7 British bikers staying who had come over from the UK just for the race. The P-D was happy in the secured carpark with his two wheeled cousins! Day 1 - MotoGP today - yeah...