JasonV

Decided to take the back roads through the hills to Granada. Fantastic views but the roads were crappy. Still snow lying around and had to traverse mud and rock slides. Very cold.... read more

Cold wet and miserable. Was going to camp but rented a cold, wet, miserable bungalow (shed) on the campsite instead. Dinner was a bowl of instant noodles and hot chocolate...... read more

Got up late. To a light dusting of snow... great! Had a great breakfast. Then Ulli took me around the medieval chapel they have conveniently located outside their front door. Stopped off at Millau to gawp at the suspension bridge. Then on down through to Spain. Stopped at a Holiday Inn Express in Girona. Cold, wet, dark. ... read more

Journey from the holiday inn to the Eurotunnel terminal is an exhausting 2.5 minutes. It's some god awful time in the morning and I'm fuzzy headed, slightly bemused at what I'm embarking on, nervous and hungry as I've overslept and missed breakfast. Getting my boarding card and the bike loaded onto the train is surprisingly painless. The guy managing the process gets me to park the bike in a way that doesn't seem sensible but I figure he know's what he's doing so I go with it. As the train get's underway I review my detailed itinerary for the next 3 months. Get to Calais, head south to Morocco and ... er that's it really. Vague ideas about getting to Tunisia via Sicily flop around half-formed in what passes for my mind at this time in ... read more