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...

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...