One of the highlight's of the ABC of motorcycle trips is a semi annual visit to one of the well known and historic racing tracks around Europe to watch a live round of the MotoGP. In 2013 it was Assen and this year Jerez (the J is pronounced H in Spanish). This track is the second longest serving continuous home of MotoGP after Assen so it is like completing a step in a jigsaw puzzle. It also served as a opportunity to both, the first time, to ride in Spain an...

In a previous blog we looked at the A's of the ABC's of motorcycle travel that hve formed the title of this trip. This blog looks at a negative B that being the dreaded breakdown while not hundred's of km's fom home but thousands infact over 17000kms away. The comments on my blogs are always carefully reaad and enjoyed as I know people appreciate the somewhat considerable time taken to assemble the photographs, compress them and save them ready for insertion in...

The journey south contimues like the cold weather has forgotten when in the Northern Hemisphere as one goes South the weather warms. Maybe those who preach Global Warming Climate Change are confused so to our weather as warmth has not shon upon us in abundance yet. In simple terms we froze and are still layed up to ard off the bone chilling ffects of cold weather plus the forward movement of the motorcycle. The trip out of Madrid was a real easy and relaxed ri...

A day off the motorcycle to explore Madrid the third largest city in Europe. With no riding an alternatice mode of transport was needed as our Hotel was well outside the main area of Madrid. Greg's phone app had a Uber taxi arrive and eposit us at the railway station for about $24. Then they joys of discovery how does this Metro work? A ticket is first priority so with only vending machings we began and worked for a while until it clicked in order to purchase...

Rain Rain never on the plains of Spain. So that explains why we got some of our coldest weather yet we travelled via the mountains to get to Madrid. Crossing into Spain a number of features became evident. Fuel was some 30-40c per litre cheaper then France where we often paid 1.70 euro per litre or over $3 per litre, even filling the bike was a $50+ exercise at least twice daily. We were also excited to find out that road tolls on the Autoviv were also much ...