17 September

Well for any of you that think I have been sitting round and not doing anything well here is the news, the 2013 ride is due to start. The plan is simple. Get myself to Belgium where NZL07 had been on holiday ( for too long). Take her back to the Lake District in England for the last of the summer sun and a good look round that part of England. Then head to London where I celebrated my 21st birthday and with a little bit of good luck will celebrate my next birthday at the same Pub. The Anchor on Bankside. Hope it will be fun. Then its back to EU and down the Rhine, visit some of the places I visited that long ago, and when I get to the Mediterranean turn right. Over the mountains into northern Spain, cross the Santiago de Compostella, and back along the Coast where Rick Stien showed some wonderful food in a recent program, and round the corner into Burgundy for the last of the summer wine (perhaps), and back to the garage for the bike in the UK. Well thats the plan. I will update as often as I can. S