Greg and I visited Lincoln a couple of weeks ago but arrived late in the afternoon. We said then that we would like to go back and see a bit more of this historic area - so we did! We left Hockley Heath and set the GPS for Nottingham - no, not to see Robin Hood but to visit Pidcock Triumph dealership. We always like to include a few motorbike shops on our trips as you never know what you might find there. This was no exception. The showroom was full of Triumphs ...

We travelled north again for a couple of nights so that we could spend a day in Coventry. We also hoped to be lucky enough to check out the Triumph Factory at Hinckley. Coventry was only 25km from our hotel so we all had a nice sleep in. After our short drive we parked in the Cathedral precinct of the town. Coventry Cathedral is not one that would be high on the best dressed list of cathedrals to visit - for a very good reason. This cathedral is topless and qui...

Our trip to Southampton has been planned for 2 years now. When we were in the UK in 2013 we stayed with Greg's cousin Betty Hughes and her husband Ciggy in Southampton. We told Betty that we could be back in 2015 and she immediately invited us to her 40th Anniversary party which would be held 12th September 2015. We gladly accepted the invitation - if the dates coincided with our trip. They did! We arrived in Southampton late afternoon and caught up on all the f...

After the Superbikes at Oulton Park we returned to Felixstowe to drop off Chris's bike and to collect ours from the Triumph dealer in Ipswich. Our bike was all fixed - free of charge as it is still under warranty. We had the bikes cleaned at a hand wash while we watched and then took them back to the Felixstowe depot to be returned to Australia. After packing our panniers back in to their boxes we headed off together in our ford Focus. Our first night was at Wo...

So far we have attended several motorbike racing events during our trip. First was World Superbikes at Imola in Italy. We also went to a round of World Superbikes at Donnington in the UK. We had a week at the Isle of Man TT and also spent a weekend in Northern Island for the Ulster GP. MotoGP was at Silverstone and so were we. The event to round off our race watching experience was to see British Superbikes. We managed this at Oulton Park on the weekend. Oulto...