Peter Cleife Articles

Dubai to Marbella via the UK (6 of 6)

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 to [...]

Dubai to Marbella via the UK (5 of 6)

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 [...]

Dubai to Marbella via the UK (4 of 6)

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 dressed [...]

Dubai to Marbella via the UK (3 of 6)

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 [...]

Dubai to Marbella via the UK (2 of 6)

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 from [...]

Dubai to Marbella via the UK (1 of 6)

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 [...]