This was a long weekend in glorious weather at Ragley Hall for the Adventure Bike Rider Festival. Our team consisted of Doug, Peter, Martin, Sam and myself and we were all camping. I was trying out the idea of “van camping” with a camp bed and sleeping bag in the back of my van, whereas …
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Family Tour 2025
From Cruit Island I drove back to England and then did a tour of family visiting Sara at her caravan in Keswick as well as her home in Preston, Felicity in Padiham, Chris and Corinne near Newcastle, Lucy and family in Horsham together with a visit to Nanna and taking in a weekend at the …
Cruit Island, Donegal
For the second week of our Irish trip Dougie and I moved further North to Donegal and were joined for a few days by Dougie’s daughter Millie. We were in a cottage on Cruit Island and once again the weather was rather mixed. We went into Donegal itself and explored the town and the Castle …
Old Duffers in Ireland
The “Old Duffers Trip” has become and annual tradition and the previous two trips have been to the Isle of Man and Normandie. For this year we decided to go to Ireland and moved the date to June in the hope of getting reasonable weather – a vain hope as it turned out.The trip video …
Canada and Paris 2025
I went to visit Georgina in Canada in May, which involved a flight from Paris to Calgary and then on to Kelowna. I thought I would take the opportunity to spend a few days in Paris before the trip and invited my siblings to join. My brother Chris agreed to join but sister Sara wasn’t …