Sunday & Monday 22-23 May 2011 - after leaving cousin Betty's at Southampton we rode to Sammy Miller's Motorcycle Museum at New Milton about 30 miles distance. Sammy MILLER is a famous British motorcycle racer of the 1950's & 60's. He is well into his 70's and still competes in certain events such as the Isle of Man TT in 2009 when he famously crashed over a stone wall yet walked away to tell the tale. His musuem has over 400 bikes and is world famous....

Sat 21.05.2011 - we left London and rode out to the viilage of Windsor, where the castle is. As Queen Elizabeth had just returned from her visit to Ireland we were hoping she may be at home and invite us in for a cuppa. We thought all was going to plan when we rode up the main street because there were police everywhere so Greg figured she knew he was coming at least! As it turned out is was just the routine changing of the guard. Firstly we had a hearty brea...

Friday 20th May2011 – we arrived at Heathrow at 8.00 am ready to pick up Chris. We first met Chris when we went school teaching in Warren in 1975 as a young married couple. Chris was also a school teacher and has stayed a close friend ever since (ps – he is the only person we know who owns a Rolls Royce!). Chris also shipped his bike with Get Routed, the same bike shipping company that we used to ship the P-D into Turkey. Chris rides a classic 1985 Su...

Thursday 19th May 2011 – we checked into our hotel; a rather drab but cheap Travelodge at Heston westbound, which is about 4 mile/7 km from Heathrow airport where we were to pick up our friend Chris PEARSON in the morning. Because we had time to spare we grabbed a taxi which took us to the nearest tube station and we caught a train into London to fill in the afternoon. Having visited London before and seen the sights, we decided to just wander around and ...

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...