We had talked about going to Northern Ireland for the Ulster GP earlier in the week but had made no bookings. Greg however had done a bit more research and we decided to catch a ferry from Cairnryan to Belfast at 3:30pm on Friday 7th. As it was already 10am and we had about 80km to ride to the ferry, we packed our gear and loaded up the bike. We left the house about noon. We arrived at our hotel near Antrim about 6:30pm, dumped our gear and rode out to the ...

We have returned to Neil and Isobel's house in East Kilbride to escape the heat in Europe and to rest up. We have found the last month very busy and extremely hot. We plan to do as little as possible - not sure how this will go as we have never done this before on our trips. As we have the use of a car while we are here, the bike was parked in the back yard, washed and covered up for the duration. We selected DVD's from Neil's collection to watch and Kerr...

We are back in the UK and have paid a quick visit to the shipping depot at Felixstowe to swap over some of our gear. We also sorted out some of the packages we have sent back there during the first 4 months of our trip - there were only 5 packages, mainly containing fridge magnets, spare clothes and a few t-shirts that were put in to our suitcase to carry home in October. After an overnight stay in Ipswich we found a car wash to get the bike cleaned after our dri...

Our plan when we left Corps after the Tour de France was to retrace our steps and return to the top of Italy to set ourselves up for an attack on the Croatian coast. The weather in that area has been so hot and uncomfortable for riding we decided to go with Plan B! We headed north and set the GPS for Dijon – completely in the opposite direction I hear you say. Correct! We have decided to return to the UK and head for Scotland for another stay at Neil and ...

With the bike ready, we headed south to Corps - only about 70km. Our hotel for the next 2 nights is in the main street with the route of the Tour de France going right passed the front door. There are flags criss-crossing the streets and it looks like this little town is ready - we sure are! Corps is a pretty little town on Route Napoleon. This famous road was the route followed by Napoleon on his return from exile in Elba in 1815 on his march to Paris. The town...