This trip's prior planning had seen 3/4 of the ABBA tour planned but such logistics are mega and while ABBA has been decades planning their reunion tour I was not blest with that abundance of time. However it all fell into place in Spain when Benicassim was decided upon as an overnight stop between Alicante and Spain's largest city, capital, home to the 1992 Olympics and in the news recently as the hub of seperatists movement Barcelona and also home to FCB (Foo...

Back again on a tow truck, why and how. Well first let me start the day at Alberfurie, on return from Morocco the Triumph fired up and we headed off towards Granada via the Costa de Sol or the Spainish Riveria. Stretching along the coast was one continuous mass of hotels. restaurante, holiday features and holiday apartments. We kept on the E-5 Autovia until a necvessary recalibration of the GPS as while we wanted to see how the rich & famous mingled with th...

Honda sell thousands of Africa Twins, so many that they recentky reintroduced the model, but in reality how many every venture onto the African Continent, very few I woulld suggest. So today became one of those man & machine bonding exercises as caution,GPS guidance and some mention was made of commonsense were thrust into the background and a new chapter of first's created. Yesterday I had a ferry ticket from Trafica in Spain to Tangier in Morocco and a se...

Let the water and the blood"" is a line from that well respected Hymn Rock of Ages and it could no better describe a place on earth the Gibraltar. I had travelled from Cabo da Roca the most Western point on mainland Europe to visit an still functioning outpost of the British Empire. My plan was to actually ride the motorcycle into Gibraltar by crossing the main and only runway of Gibraltar International Airport. There were numerous internet blogs saying No, lo...

Cabo da Roca, a real stroll down memory lane on what has been a great few days since leaving Jerez and all the excitement of MotoGP. The reason I was at Cabo da Roca was one of three reasons for visiting Portugal. Since early High School days I had corressponded with the Portugese Embasy seeking tourism and historical information which they always supplied. The interest in a viisit to Portugal may have had to wait some 4 decades but when the opportunity arose I...