Tue 11 Feb 2025 Because it was raining, I set off from Liz’s place towards midday, with a promise of dryer weather in the afternoon, and indeed I reached Blenheim with nothing more than a few sprinkles to bother me. The road was, as I had been warned, boring, with it’s only redeeming feature being,ContinueContinue reading “3/09 – Belfast, Canterbury, New Zealand – 11/12 Feb 2025”
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3/08 – My First Traffic Stop! – 08/10 Feb 2025
A bit longer than usual this post, but not a single technical word in sight; promise! Saturday 08 Feb 2024 My day dawned in darkness at 0400, as I had to be at the ferry by 0515 and had been warned that they were pretty strict about timing. Unusually, I got there early after ridingContinueContinue reading “3/08 – My First Traffic Stop! – 08/10 Feb 2025”
3/07 – Ups, Downs, And Finally On My Way! – Mon 03 – Fri 07 Feb 2025
Monday 03 Feb 2025 Up early for my usual travelling breakfast of oats, but this time with the addition of a my “Eet-Sum-Mor”; I limited myself to two! 😁 The rest of the day was spent on my dive and a visit to Cathedral Cove, a “must-see” attraction on the peninsula. The dive was fun, butContinueContinue reading “3/07 – Ups, Downs, And Finally On My Way! – Mon 03 – Fri 07 Feb 2025”
3/06 – Getting it Right – Mon 27 – Fri 31 Jan 2025
Today I took the engine out again – getting quite good at it – and took off the top. The timing of the cam chain was off by one tooth. This could well cause the issues I noted. Question now is whether I have done any additional damage. The cost of shipping a new headContinueContinue reading “3/06 – Getting it Right – Mon 27 – Fri 31 Jan 2025”
2/22 – Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall – 11 June 2024
A few days ago, I said to a friend, who was under a bit of stress, that it has to rain sometimes, so that you appreciate the sunshine when it returns. Well, this week has been monsoon season! I also discovered today that when someone comments on my posts, I don’t get notified; I haveContinueContinue reading “2/22 – Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall – 11 June 2024”
1/37 – FROM THE SEA TO THE MOUNTAINS – 05-12 Dec 2019
Next morning that generosity and kindness continued in the shape of Ahmed Barnawi. Ahmed is a leading light in the United Bikers Team in Jeddah, and elsewhere. He came along with his trailer and took me and bike to the local Honda dealer to have a few repairs carried out. The easy way to travelContinueContinue reading “1/37 – FROM THE SEA TO THE MOUNTAINS – 05-12 Dec 2019”
01/19 – Bumps on my birthday – 27 June – 01 July 2019
27 June 2019 (Late): After my day as a paying tourist, I got down to some serious planning. My insurance for Tz was valid until 5 July, but for Rwanda only until 2 July; that meant I had to get from Keratu to the Uganda border with Rwanda, about 1,300km away in 5 days, includingContinueContinue reading “01/19 – Bumps on my birthday – 27 June – 01 July 2019”
01/18 – Ngorogoro Crater – 27 Jun 2019
I decided to do a day trip to the crater after speaking to a SA couple at Ma & PJ’s snake park. I negotiated a price of $200, with a pick up from Keratu which is just outside the gate. The night before I had met another SA couple who said it was definitely worthContinueContinue reading “01/18 – Ngorogoro Crater – 27 Jun 2019”
01/17 – Tanzania 4 – 23-26 June 2019 – KILIMANJARO
Sun 23 June 2019: Since I have to wait until Monday for my documents, I decided to do a circuit of Kilimanjaro National Park., The first 75km is uphill on reasonable, if twisty roads. It’s cold and I realise I probably should have worn my leather jacket. Before long I have passed 5 000 ft (1ContinueContinue reading “01/17 – Tanzania 4 – 23-26 June 2019 – KILIMANJARO”
01/16 – Tanzania 3 – 19-22 June 2019
19 June 2019: So, I left you as I arrived in Dar-Es-Salaam. That was nearly 2 weeks ago now, so I thought I’d skip ahead bring things up-to-date and then go backwards. I arrived back in Dar on Weds 19th and took a taxi, from the port, to collect the bike. It started first prod! IContinueContinue reading “01/16 – Tanzania 3 – 19-22 June 2019”
Belfast-2-Belfast-By-Bike 