Mull of Galloway

Today’s ride out was down through the Scottish borders to Dumfries & Galloway. Arriving on the Galloway coast I stopped at the Mull of Galloway

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Netherlands & Germany

Riding BMW R1200GS #2, this week long motorcycle trip through the Netherlands had a somewhat interesting start. It should be mentioned at this point that

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Germany 2004

16th-20th September. Leaving my friends at the Chateau Le Mont Epinguet as they prepared to head back to the UK, I was heading for Germany

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Octoberfest

18th September. As part of my trip to Germany I’m spending two nights at a nice B&B on the outskirts of Munich, chosen for it’s

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French Chateau 2004

Returning for a second visit to Chateau Le Mont Epinguet, near Brix, Normandie, I organised a tour for a group of friends based at this

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BMW Failure

During our recent motorcycling holiday to Norway, my six week old BMW suffered a significant & terminal mechanical failure at the most inopportune time &

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Norway 2004

4th-21st July. This trip had been in the planning stages for the two years since my last visit in the autumn of 2002. On that

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Langholm

Took a nice ride today down the A7 south from Edinburgh towards Langholm, Dumfries & Galloway. Approaching Langholm, up on my left I saw a

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Second Ride

It’s been just over a week since I took delivery of my new BMW R1200GS and apart from riding it home from the BMW dealer

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BMW R1200GS #1

After a succession of large BMW touring motorcycles I decided, just for a change, to buy one of the newly launched BMW R1200GS models from

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