France, Spain, Andorra and Portugal – June 2011
For some bizzare reason, I wrote this in the third person, oops, lesson learned.
On his newish 60 plate BMW 1200GS Adventure motobike, Tommy is soley departing the UK on the 8th June to travel and explore 4000 miles of France, Spain, Andorra and Portugal for three weeks on his 2011 roadtrip. He hopes to return three weeks later on the 28th June.
He is hoping to meet lots of friends along the way and will no doubt have some amazing adventures and will be writing a journal as a reminder to himself of the adventure and any incidents (because his memory is crap) but will depend on his access to the internet.
Tommy hopes not to bore anyone but is willing to share this experience with anyone interested, watch out for updates and safe riding to all them adventure bikers and not so adventurous bikers out there.
Compared to yesterday, this was a pretty uneventful day with the route taking Thomas out of the stormy mountains to skirt Barcalona then along the coast to just North of sunny Benidorm. Thomas had set his sat nav to minor roads as
Knowing he had another long day ahead, Thomas woke at 0500, packed quietly whilst the Northampton biking group snored heavily after there few beers the night before. Also, Thomas had to be down in Estepona, Spain by Saturday afternoon, otherwise he would
Woke at 0400, loaded his already heavily ladened BMW with his remaining items and kissed his darling wife farewell whilst she still slept. Thomas immediately encountered problems and had to manually open the usually automatic exit gate from the under ground car