The Golden Gnome Challenge is a motorbike competition held every year at John’s place near Belmontet. All credit and masses of thanks to John and his team of volunteers for setting up and safely and smoothly managing the whole event. The event is run over the entire weekend with three competitive elements each of which …
Category archives: La Vie
The Vince #3
Read about the preparation for this event here :https://v2xs.com/the-vince-2/ Our team was called “Old School” – which is the name of Dougie’s house in Yorkshire. Our team members were my good self, Dougie and Mark. Fitness levels were questionable… Dougie had broken his leg in three places earlier in the year and this was the …
The Vince #2
To read a bit more background see the original post here.. https://v2xs.com/the-vince/ Two months before the event an information pack arrived. This contained a very large scale A3 map of the entire area with the check points highlighted, a booklet with additional details on the location of each checkpoint (CP) and a 1:50k map of …
Morocco or Bust #2
In case you missed the previous post on this…https://v2xs.com/morocco-or-bust/ The objective is to do a winter trip with Alexander (Jan/Feb 2020) to Spain/Portugal/Morocco in a Renault 4. This is all about the fun/adventure/journey and a big part of that is doing it in a vehicle that is not really suited to the task.. Sometimes it’s …
Sara and Lauren’s Holiday
My sister Sara and her daughter Lauren came over for a week and were joined by Georgina for a few days and then Alexander and Laurena called in for the weekend. Fortunately the sun shone as getting a good tan seemed to be a key objective – a symptom of living in the North of …