Additional Comments Looking Backing On The Trip My great mistake was that I was in too much of a hurry to get home and should have spent a longer period of time on the trip, especially in Cantabria and Salamanca. I met tourists in Cantabria who intended to pass through the area on their way [...]
Third Day The third day should have taken me from Zamora to Caceres via Salamanca. I found Salamanca to be a very beautiful city with a lot to offer the visitor. I got as far as the visiting the old sector around the impressive Plaza Major, Cathedral and University. With the help of my ‘Lonely [...]
The Trip Note: Road numbering has recently under gone certain changes in Spain, the roads number which follow are those used in the computer program I used and in certain cases are the ‘old’ numbers. I arrived at the Brittany Ferries terminal on the 29th May to find a large quantity of Harleys with strangely [...]
The Wet, Wet UK I arrived in London, caught a taxi to the warehouse close to the airport, and un-crated the RT which had arrived with various damages to the crate, but none to the bike itself. I took delivery of it the following morning after paying the handling fees and proceeded to Plymouth via [...]
Relocation – Planning In May 2000, I relocated from Dubai to Spain, opening up and operating a local branch of the Marine consultancy company I work for in Dubai, based at my home in Marbella and covering Southern Europe. The Dubai office covers the Middle East and sub-continent. Originally I wanted to ride the bike [...]
Prologue I purchased my 1999 BMW R1100RT new in October 1998 from the BMW dealer in Dubai. Previous to that I had owned two other bikes in Dubai, a Indian Enfield Bullet 500, I owned it a year and that’s how long it took the dealer to get it run properly, enough said. This was [...]
