As a keen follower of this blog you’ll no doubt remember last year’s trip to Maroc that I did on my Honda CRF 300L. If not you can read about the trip here :https://v2xs.com/moto-maroc/My conclusions from that trip were that I wanted to do it again, but to be a bit more adventurous in terms …
Category archives: La Vie
UK Trip Oct 2023
In recent years I’ve been visiting family in the UK during the Autumn (Oct/Nov), which has been a substitute for visiting over the Christmas period which I used to do in the old days. This year the visit was also arranged around attending my Niece Lauren’s wedding (my sister Sara’s second daughter). For some reason, …
VINCE 2023
For the VINCE this year Dougie and I decided to enter the “twinshock” category, which basically means we have to use old bikes. Dougie already had his machine – a 1978 Kawasaki KL250 trail bike that he recently bought in fully restored condition as a trip down memory lane as it was identical to the …
Summer Visitors 2023
This summer I had a one week visit from my sister Sara, followed by a two week visit from two of my grandchildren Amy (14) and Nicola (7). This meant that I had to clean the pool and get it working after its long winter hibernation. When I first removed the cover it looked like …
Grande Traversée du Massif Central 2023
This is an official route, intended for mountain bikes, that starts in the Morvan (in the Bourgogne region) and runs all the way to the meditteranean. It has it’s own website https://www.la-gtmc.com/ which provides details of the route and downloadable gpx files to use in your phone or GPS to follow the route. The total …