Tuesday 28.06.2011 - we reached the Eurotunnel terminal at Calais around 11.30 am and picked up our tickets for the 21 mile chunnel trip under the English Channel for our return to England. As we queued up we found ourselves waiting with four English bikers. They were all retired guys that made us feel young! That means they were really old b*****s! They had set off from their homes in Yorkshire yesterday to ride the Alps for 8 days. Unfortunately after one ...

Saturday 18.06.2011 - we left Morpeth under the threat of heavy rain, so the weather forcaste said. We decided to detour west slightly towards Hexham to visit the best preserved part of what is left of Hadrians Wall, the barrier the Romans built in the second century AD and abandoned in the 5th century, to keep the Scots at bay. Wise men those Romans as the Jocks are a fiery bunch! We had been shown a very small section of Hadrians Wall in 1997 when on a bus t...

Friday 17.06.2011 - with a very clean bike we continued our southward journey and bid farewell to Scotland, beautiful Scotland. Greg could happily spend six months a year in Scotland, the warm months of course! Because the P-D had a well earned bath yesterday we decided to try and avoid the rain if possible. Fortune smiled on us because it seemed the only part of the UK today that was devoid of rain was the east coast of southern Scotland leading towards Newcast...

Thursday 16.06.2001 - We packed up and said our goodbyes to Chris in the carpark of our hotel as he was heading west from Inverness to ride the Isle of Skye before heading to Ireland for two weeks. Our plans are to head south to the Yorkshire Moors and stay at Whitby before catching a ferry to Rotterdam for the Assen MotoGP in the Netherlands. We all then met up again at Felixstowe to drop off the bikes on the 30.06.2011. Ride safe Chris. Before leaving Inv...

Wednesday 15.06.2011 - Kerrie & Greg have long talked about travelling from one end of the British Isles to the other; that is from Lands End in Cornwall to John O'Groats in Scotland. Also about a year ago, when Chris decided to join us on this safari, he expressed the same desire. Today was the day we would achieve our goal. We had planned to stay two nights in Inverness leaving our excess luggage at the hotel and travelling lightly with wet weather gear on...