Tuesday & Wednesday 3rd and 4th May 2011 – We packed up our goods and chattels and left Andorra behind; refreshed after spoiling ourselves and satisfied with our shopping. We were waved through the outgoing border gate by the disinterested Andorran officials and just as casually waved into Spain by the similar bored looking Spanish border guards. No stop, no checks – do they know or care who comes and goes into or out of their country? Apparently ...

Friday & Saturday 29/30 April 2011 – On leaving St. Raphael we thought that since we were only 40 km from St Tropez then we should pay a visit and see what the fuss is about. We needn't have bothered. Nothing much there to see and even the beach was average. We set off for the town of Narbonne. Again we chose a small town over a city because you don’t have all of the 'big city’ issues with parking, bike security, finding some where nice to ...

Thu 28.04.2011 – After leaving Gap we made for the town of Digne Les Bains about 88 km along Route 85. We stopped first at a very small town named Sisteron built on the side of a mountain with a fast flowing river bisecting it. The mountains were vertical in parts with rock climbers having an outing. And they reckon bikers take risks? A sign said the rock was formed from when limestone was laid down in the Jurrasic Period when this area was under the sea. ...

Wed 27.04.2011 – After Milan we decided to depart Italy for France. On the Autostrada you have to pay. You collect a ticket at the start and then before exiting you place it into a machine that calculates your toll, insert the required coins, boom gate opens and away you go. All good until we (Greg) took a wrong exit and somehow got back on to the Autostrada minus the ticket. We still can't figure out how we did that. Anyway, we reach the toll booth with no...