Road Trip....France....Buildings

So September started with me packing our bike with clothes and toys ready for a short road trip across the Channel. A few days less then usual due to family commitments but still plenty of time to pack in a few varied destinations. These post will probably be photo heavy as Biker Ted will be writing up the trip with all the details that I usually forget to put in!!

Our first destination was Colmar in France, a very picturesque town in France where , if you stare at the houses too long, you begin to wonder if its the houses leaning or yourself!!



our hotel for two nights



Bakery



Detail from the shutters

 

see what I mean by being a bit wonky!



A stream runs through the town



Small passage ways are always interesting although I had to wait a day for this one as the dustbins were out when we got there.



Still pretty at night time.

More about how we passed our time in Colmar (other than sitting in bars)  in the next post.xx

Merry Christmas! PS. I'm still here, just a little busy

So sorry about not posting since October, Will try and make up for it over the the next few weeks. Things have been very hectic leading up to Christmas and catching the yukky virus hasn't helped! This is the view from our window this morning, very cold but bright.


I've been thinking about how much has happened this year and it's been a really good one with many new friends although not as much motorcycling as usual but Ian and Biker Ted has been having a great time with the Round Britain Rally as usual.

More later :-) have a great Holiday, relax and enjoy it!!

Thundersprint 2010

Hi, on Friday Biker Ted, Ian and myself packed our bags and headed over to Northwich to spend the weekend with many other bikers.
Thundersprint Bike show was on the Saturday with trade stands and classic bikes.As usual we all fell in love with some of the bikes and came away with some 'interesting' photos.







The rest of the day was spent wandering around the town, more about this in the next post.

On Sunday we watched the sprint race practise,









Had a look round the paddocks,



found one rider who was so happy to be there that he burst into song!



Met up with fellow bloggers Nikos and Highway Lass prior to the Cavalcade.



and watched the spitfire flypast



We didn't stay to watch the actual racing as the crowd was so big that we couldn't see anything! still we had had the morning practise to watch and enjoy.

postal treats

Sometimes events coincide quite nicely. On Saturday, having enjoyed a night in my own bed rather than on a hospital ward, Ian opened the door to find that the postie had left a package in the porch.
This envelope of Christmas goodies was from my good friend Lise in Norway, made my day!!


Also made Biker Teds day as it is the first time he has ever had a Christmas present just for him!! He is so excited that we have had to get special permission from Lise for him to open it on Christmas Eve.On the doorstep yesterday was a gentleman delivering these beautiful flowers from my work colleagues. My thanks to all of you for this touch of sunshine on a winters day.
May I say a huge thank you to everyone here and on Stitchin Fingers for all your get well wishes and I will be blogging some of my past work, please let me know if it gets too boring.

Border Patrol 2008

We are back home, tired, muddy but happy as we have just returned from a camping weekend organised by our club Drake MCC, Pintpullers MCC and Tamar MCC. Around 70 bikers attended and we raised over £900 for the Air Ambulance Service!!






more photos here

I spent two mornings cooking breakfast, sausage and bacon whilst fellow bikers Alan and Robbie took care of the eggs and beans. Ian and Biker Ted were left in charge of the washing up.

New Blogger on the Block

Although we are both full of cold, Ian has today been helping Biker Ted set up his blog Biker Ted Diaries which will detail his motorcycle adventures over the last ten years or so. You can read the first installment here and there will be a lot more to come.

Return of Biker Ted

Update on the bike, she is now safely installed in our garage once more although there are still some problems to be sorted. We were very relieved to see that Biker Ted survived his extended holiday. He has been resident on this bike since our first trip to Norway in 1997 and we made the decision to leave him in France to guard the bike in our absence.

Although he is looking slightly smoke damaged these days!!