South East Asia! After a few chats and some info grabbing from Stu Meikle, I booked flights to Bangkok via Dubai and set off in mid January….in snow The flights were pretty uneventful and I arrived safe and sound and met at the airport by Stu who had left a month or so previously and was […]

I left the UK straight after the Silverstone MotoGP in June and after a nice flight (including Dubai to Joburg on a lush A380) I stayed overnight in the Dove’s Nest motel – as usual. Next day I got the Gautrain down to Park station and after a bit of a headache, managed to get […]

Tucker and I left home on the bikes – in rain – and headed down Oxford way, to meet up with Big (sic) Al. From there it was an uneventful (but now dry) onward journey to Portsmouth and a bar meal before heading on the overnighter to Le Havre. Being one of the first on board, […]

April -as always- is punctuated by the ride to Scotland to take part in a memorial ride for a fallen rider (Greg) this year, Tucker and I rode to MiT and waited fro the other 16 riders from south of the border (and had coffee and bacon sarnies while we waited, of course) On their arrival, […]

was great staying with Shaun and Maria – tho in actual fact, Shaun wasnt there a lot of the time as he got a job in the gold mines nr. Laverton (where Id driven thru) so was working fly-in fly-out shifts. I/we did a few beach trips, and found the beach with the memorial to the […]

The trip out of the national park and into the Gibson, Simpson and Great Victoria deserts, isnt half as bad as I thought it would be …though of course in my case all went well – I had no mechanical breakdowns, so in reality, maybe I was just lucky! the roads are fairly hard packed so […]

I was fairly knackered and a little dehydrated when I got there, so I filled up with burger and chips, an electrolyte drink and lots of water. Curious place – its a tiny little town …very remote and looks a little sorry for itself…and then there’s the PINK roadhouse…painted baby pink. I got out of the […]

The next few days were a mix of sunshine and rain so I didnt get too much use out of the hostels rooftop loungers. I spent a lot of time walking around the city – which I quite liked – despite not expecting too (after talking to other travellers who didnt really like the place), but […]

I arrived on a cold night and fell straight asleep in my dorm room at the YHA Central (Melbourne) woke up in the morning to a sunny start (that was about to change) so I headed out to find my car. I hadnt taken a GPS of where Id left it 6 weeks ago, so chanced […]

new zealand arrived in Christchurch at about midnight and jumped straight on a shuttle bus dropping me off at the door of Kiwibase hostel. My bed awaited. Next morning (Saturday) I had a walk down to the city centre: I had no idea that the destruction from and due to the quake was so bad: the […]

I finally took the plunge and booked a trip to Oz! cheap flight (cheaper than train OR bus!) to Heathrow from NCL and an overnight stay at a nearby hotel on the 2nd Sept. left me with a short trip and a couple of coffees 😉 for the Saturday morning and a loooong flight to Hong […]

had some good rides thru August – mainly with Tucker on his panzer and joined by a few of the scots lot: We headed up to Selkirk where we met up with Grumpy, Alzo and Macfazer. The ride continued on the well worn path thru St. Marys loch (not literally) to Moffat for lunch and […]

3rd of July had me heading back out to Botswana on Emirates airline again: This year there are two schools coming to Tuli – one group of 12 from one Kwa Zulu Natal school for a week and then another group of 52 children from another KZN school the following week. an uneventful trip got me […]

a varied month: a trip down to the Motogp at Silverstone with Tucker, Steve and Martin: lorra laffs and some great racing (in the ‘smaller’ classes) despite horrific wind and rain. …….Steve is THE ham sandwich maker. Numerous rideouts on my own or with the nephew Little Michael as pillion….. and of course generally with Tucker. […]

A solo trip over to Norn Iron was on the cards: to see Col and Maureen and also head north to watch the NW200 motorcycle road races. a 5am start on the bike had me heading over to Stranraer via the ‘Queens road’ which was a bit of an average idea, as the road was very […]

Just back from Israel and its time for the annual Scots Memorial ride in memory of Has2 – a fallen ninja rider. Tucker and I rode down to Middleton in Teesdale for coffee and to meet up with the suthern softies riding up from doon sooth. they eventually arrived after we’d feasted on bacon sarnies and […]

Israel! The Holy Land Crusade…. Well, I was bored in the UK, and Shir had wetted my appetite for a trip to the Holy Land, so on 28th March I flew from Manchester airport to Tel Aviv! After getting the 3rd degree from the immigration police, I was met in the airport by Shir and Eli […]

February 2010 with only 18 more miles on the clock of the bike (crappy weather for months now) Ive finally got a permit to reside in Boswana …so 9th Feb, I’m offski arrive Joburg and transported up to Tuli YAY!!! Stuart left on a much needed holiday the next day, so all alone in the wonderworld […]