Solstice day 2009 The kind lady in the visitor's centre at Caerphilly recommended the Gower Peninsula in Souther Wales as a place to see. She was right - it's lovely - felt a bit like the Isle of Wight actually. I followed her directions and the GPS and headed for the end of the peninsula. I was riding along quite late in the day (I had walked around the castle in the morning, and lost some time waterproofing the tent at the guesthouse) when I sensed the opport...

Hello again after a bit of a break. I have been riding the bike a lot and visiting small villages with no internet cafes so have been 'off the air' so as to speak. Therefore this is the first of a couple more 'dodgy' blogs ie, I'm not where I say I am. The photo's will have to follow later, I can't put the card reader into this machine either. Thje last blog was from Oxford. While there I met a man from, Wales who recommended a couple of places in Wales to see....

G'day from Oxford. Kylie has posted a few words about farming so I thought I'd include a picture of a real crop. Yesterday I left Brighton while Maki looked on in disbelief at the amount of stuff i fitted onto the bike. I set off with the GPS set for Winchester. Set on 'avoid motorways' it still sets the most direct course on the next biggest roads, so i enjoyed a fairly direct journey to Winchester, passing through Midhurst, where the 'On the Run' service stat...

Hello from Brighton for the last time for a while. Yes, today I am leaving Brighton and the kind hospitality of Mark & Maki (and Maki's cooking!) to head north and west. Yesterday I took Mark's advice and spent an hour or two looking through Brighton's Royal Pavillion - a bizarre building at the South British seaside, designed to look and feel like Asia, by people who had never seen Asia. When I left the last blog, the Ducati was in the shop for a service a...

I'm not there now, but today I spent my first (short) day in london. I should have been there longer but I missed the first train - they don't wait for you like the motorcycle does! My first stop in the capital was at the office of the company for which I used to work. In a very impressive central location - I caught up with a couple of the staff I had met in Australia previously and learned the most recent company updates. From there I progressed to Buckingham...