From Geneve we had ideas of heading south into Italy for one last visit, but while riding through Switzerland I thought the bike was make a different sound to usual so in Geneve I checked it over and suspected the rear wheel bearings were on there way out. So with that news and the weather the way it was we decided to head straight for Paris and then on to England. As we entered France it started to rain and continued while we were in the mountainous areas but st...

We re-entered France via Andorra and the Pyrenees. We took the main road through Andorra and drove the entire length of it, all 56 kilometres of it. It took us up into the snow covered mountains of the Pyrenees, but we were lucky, the sun was shining and it was 6°, the scenery was breathtaking. Julie and I just love the Pyrenees mountains, they are just stunning. We continued heading north to Millau to have a look at the worlds tallest bridge. Opened in 2004 the...

Wow, in our last blog I commented on how old places were getting as we headed south. Well today I think we topped anything we may see in the future, well the signage would suggest that. We visited a place today called La Roque Saint-Christophe, it is a place that housed humans in the cliff face from 50,000 years ago right up until the middle ages. The site is one kilometre in length and five terraces high, they say it could of housed up to one thousand people. U...

After ten great days in England we are back in France. While we were in England we caught up with some relatives, had the bike services and did some repairs. Aside from meeting the relatives the highlights were doing a Beatles tour through Liverpool and visiting Warwick Castle and Stratford upon Avon. While in Bosworth we visited the battle ground where Richard III was defeated by Henry Tudor in 1485, hard to get ones head around this sort of history! Then in Fra...