Motorcycle travels in Spain, Ireland, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Slovenia, Italy, France, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Georgia and Romania. (+ Sardinia & Sicily)
I have had to split my ride report for this tour into two parts as it was too many photos for WordPress, the blogging platform I use to display. Potes to Logrono I don’t feel too bad next morning, some pain from the Shingles. I have a big box of […]
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After enjoying the fantastic roads of Sardinia I flew to Portugal for the second half of this trip the focus of which was to ride the best pure motorcycling roads in Europe. Leaving Olbia Sardinia where no ride share services exist allowed taxis to charge me 30 euro for a […]
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A Motorcycling Paradise I became aware of Sardinia being a motorcycle destination back when we had print magazines and manufacturers wined and dined journalists at new bike launches in special riding places. From regional Australia it was four flights and three days to get here. I flew with Cathay Pacific […]
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I think every biker has a few roads on their bucket list. The Transfagarasan in Romania is one such road for me. I knew about this road well before the three stooges of Top Gear made it famous by calling it (in Clarkson’s voice) the “Greatest road in the world” […]
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I was not planning a ride in Europe as I had to travel to India however with time on my hands I found rather than fly direct to India I could go via Europe for same price. That got me thinking about riding the Adriatic coast which has been on […]
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I’ve had an interest in Sicily since childhood thanks in part to some of my family having grown up with the Italian community in Innisfail North Queensland which had a strong connection to Etna region Sicily. Boarding a plane from Spain was comical. Every culture has it’s quirky nature, none […]
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Slightly unexpectedly, I found myself in Spain for a couple of weeks. I dusted off my plans I once had for riding Andalucía. Spain has been one of the places on my bucket (ride) list so I was happy about the opportunity to be here. I arrived in Madrid from […]
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I had been set to start this ride a couple months ago then broke my collar bone in a fall on some stairs. The doctor said no riding for 6 months but I was having none of that and did a test ride on my FJR and decided I would […]
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Ultimate Alps Tour with Edelweiss In May 2020 during the lockdown I revisited this post and realised I had at the time barely written anything about this tour and posted a mere dozen images that were straight from the camera (since I did not start post processing my photos until […]
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