Valancia – give it a chance

We picked up our hire car from the main train station in Barcelona. I though driving on the right hand side of the road for the first time in Los Angelas was daunting enough.  That had nothing on this place – trying to figure out the flow of traffic and going around roundabouts with 3…

Barcelona – just scratching the surface

After a 7 hour layover in Dubai we arrived in Barcelona just over 33 hours after we left Canberra. Jumping in a taxi at Barcelona airport the cabbie quickly got us to the wrong hotel.  After a number of apologies we got to the right one after an impromptu tour of the city. Not to…

On helmets and saving money.

Five years ago I got rear ended at an intersection and got catapulted over the bars and onto the road … luckily there was nothing coming.  Other than doing about $5,000 worth of damage to the bike, I ended up with some hero marks on my leathers from a bit of tarmac surfing and a…

Going nowhere

I just want to say up front. I’m allergic to boats. Every time I get on a boat I find myself feeding the fishes. My catch cry has been, “the perfect cure for sea sickness – get off the damn boat!”  So when Deb suggested a 3 day sampler cruise out of Sydney I have to…

Finding my way home

From Port Lincoln I continued up and around the coast popping into the various settlements along the way.  It amazed me the number of these little towns on my trip that had quite prominent murals painted on walls.   In endurance riding circles Horrocks pass is the welcome to the east, the first set of true…

Heading east – part 2

There’s something very beautiful about the Nullabor.  Many just see the long drag that you have to take when going across the country.  However, it isn’t like that. The landscape and vegetation changes many times as you move through the countryside, often with little or no transition. Trees, no trees, scrub, plains, rolling hills. And…