Day 512 HOME (England) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 1 year, 4 months & 22 days ago. 7th April 2014 – 29th August 2015 Miles rode – 32,789 (52,463km) Countries Visited – 37 Arriving home. I arrived back at my local pub on a Saturday afternoon complete with my ‘dirty washing’, I was greeted by friends and family and the local press […]
Days 509 – 511 Calais – Whitstable (England) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 8.15am 26th – 28th August 2015 Miles rode – 57 (91km) + Le Shuttle (Euro Tunnel) 509 days ago I woke up in the same hotel here in Calais, I was about to embark upon an adventure I had planned and dreamt about for years, my plan was to ride East without much […]
Days 507 & 508 Berlin – Calais (France) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 8.15am in the rain, both days. 24th & 25th August 2015 Miles rode – 600 (960km) I woke up to rain both mornings but the days improved rapidly and blue skies emerged. Riding on motorways was boring but it gave me so much time to reflect upon the last 500 days. I went […]
Days 505 & 506 Lodz – Berlin (Germany) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 10.45am 22nd & 23rd August 2015 Miles rode – 291 (466km) Motorways all day! Dull, dull, boring, boring, tolls, fast cars. I had the option not to go on the motorways but I wanted to get to Berlin without an early start. Yes, my fault. At 4pm I crossed into Germany, there couldn’t […]
Day 504 Suwalki – Lodz (Poland) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 9.45am 21st August 2015 Miles rode – 255 (408km) The day started great, I got up late and had a fabulous breakfast, eggs, breads, hams & salami, cheeses, jams, fruit & coffee. Poland knows how to do breakfast. The great start quickly deteriorated as I found myself riding along straight new roads with […]
Day 503 Rezekne – Suwalki (Poland) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 8am 20th August 2015 Miles rode – 266 (426km) 3 countries today! I paid for a cheap room (15 Euros) in a dorm and as I’ve found often, if the hostel is out of the way it’s often empty. I woke up alone in a lovely farm house in the middle of the […]
Day 502 Moscow – Rezekne (Latvia) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 7am 19th August 2015 Miles rode – 448 (717km) I hadn’t been up at 6am for ages but I wanted to see if I could ride the 620km to the Latvia border today, the longest I had previously ridden was 536km over a year ago in Turkey. The day didn’t start too well […]
Days 491 – 501 Moscow (Russia) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 8th – 18th August 2015 Miles rode – 48 (77km) Moscow in August is sunny, hot and empty as many Russians take a holiday, others have weekend homes outside of Moscow, which means it’s the perfect time to be here. The first thing any visitor to Russia has to do is register their […]
500 Days ‘on the road’ / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 500 days ago 7th April 2014 – 18th August 2015 Miles rode – 31,000 (50,000km) To mark my 500th day ‘on the road’ I thought the article I did in ‘Enduro Illustrated’ was fitting. The article went to press about 1 week ago. See link below;
Australia – motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Prehistoric settlers arrived in Australia from Southeast Asia over 40,000 years ago. In 1770 Captain James Cook arrived on the east coast and claimed an area he named ‘New South Wales’ in the name of Great Britain (all of Australia was claimed as British territory in 1829). The population of about 23 million is highly […]
Day 490 Sydney – Moscow (Russia) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 7th August 2015 Miles rode – I left ‘on a jet plane’ I woke up at 35,000ft, an hour later and it was time for a quick change of plane in Abu Dhabi and 5 hours later I saw Maria with her beaming smile waiting for me in the arrivals hall at Domodedovo […]
Days 484 – 489 Sydney (Australia) / motorbike GS Dakar RTW overland adventure traveller
Left – 1st – 6th August 2015 Miles rode – 94 (150km) I only bloody made it to Sydney! London to Sydney overland, I didn’t put my motorbike on a plane and only used boats for the shortest essential sea crossings. When I left England it was unimaginable that I would be able to achieve […]
