For the past few years I have been dropping off and collecting my rental Honda CRF250s to Austin Vince’s customers for his trail riding events in Spain. I am often asked why I am not riding myself and, as I drive back to base after leaving customers their motorbikes, I have always promised myself that […]
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I was invited along to help out on the first Vida Aventuras tour run by our friend Duncan Gough, which took place in late September and early October 2021. Duncan met a party of riders at Santander and I rode across to meet them at Burgos. On the way from Tarragona I visited the ruined
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You will notice here that the restaurants and cafes are often very busy at lunchtime, often more than the evenings. For the Spanish, the meal in the middle of the day is the biggest and most important. In fact, whereas in the UK we generally have three meals a day, the Spanish tend to have
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Back in my youth I used to love sitting by a pond or a river idly passing the time in pursuit of a couple of tench or roach. My biggest fish was a 4lb carp. Nothing huge but I was very proud of it at the time. I took the kids fishing when they were
Our pal PaddyTyson runs the excellent Overland Magazine. He came to see us in 2019…
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Rob Dixon, who runs Adventure Ride UK (www.adventureride.co.uk) came to visit us in 2019. If you want some superb trail riding in the UK on the Wales/Shropshire border give him a shout. Here are his impressions of the visit… During the forty five years I’ve been riding bikes many of my favourite motorcycling memories seem
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We were lucky enough to be invited on a walk tracing the steps of some of the International Brigade as they retreated from near Batea towards Gandesa. The walk is called the Merriman March and was led by the very knowledgable local Anna Marti. The International Brigades contained volunteers from around the world who came
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Good Friday seemed like the perfect day to kick off the road riding season so we arranged a ride with some locals to La Bassella. This excellent motorcycle museum is a couple of hours or so north of us, heading towards the Pyrenees. We met up at 7.30 when it was still pretty fresh, and,
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An article that appeared in Motorcycle Sport and Leisure in early 2020 This was May 2016, as we rode through a wet France with no idea that within a few days we would make a life changing decision! “It’s a dream many have, to sell up everything in the UK, head off to somewhere warm
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