Day 25The ride here yesterday was effortless! It was 2 hours of almost empty motorway, just lovely.We found the hotel but passed it twice as we negotiated the complex one way system!We managed to park behind the hotel eventually next to an underground car park which said it was 500 Hungarian Florins an hour (£1.26) which sounded extortionate, so Colin refused to leave the bike there whilst we checked in but when we had checked in we found that hotel guests could...

Thoughts at the end of our second leg.As we planned our trip we did it in stages as that seemed to make it easier and we said that once we reached Hungary that would be the turning point as we started to come back home.One of the things that has been consistent apart from all the kindness and generosity of every one we have encountered in all 11 countries, have been Storks!We first came across a field of them in Holland and then on all our travelling we have seen...

Day 23 Rain stopped play!Before we left Romania Colin gave away our prizes to the hotel waiters as we had no room or no need for them; he wasn't sure if they understood his explanation of how we came by them but seemed pleased especially with the bottle of Fizz!We had a brilliant ride today, all of the roads were fairly quiet with very few lorries but still having to watch out for mad drivers! Yesterday Colin bought a t-shirt that says BADD - Bikers Against Dumb...

Well what a brilliant time we had at the rally. We managed to find it ok and found that the people on the gate had been primed to expect us so we didn't have to pay to get in. We wandered around and looked at the bikes then stood to watch the games taking place; there were a lot of drinking games (obviously! before we came in we had to sign a disclaimer to say we were responsible for our actions and after seeing the amount of alcohol and drugs being consumed I u...

Well what a brilliant time we had at the rally. We managed to find it ok and found that the people on the gate had been primed to expect us so we didn't have to pay to get in. We wandered around and looked at the bikes then stood to watch the games taking place; there were a lot of drinking games (obviously! before we came in we has to sign a disclaimer to say we were responsible for our actions and after seeing the amount of alcohol and drugs being consumed I...