On the Road Again!

Anyone know how this breaks any rules? It's a photo of the place I was reviewing....  Reggie and I were having a walk and Maps came up with places I had been. One of them that day was the Leas Cliff Hall.  This is a photo of it from the outside.  My review, that can't be read or edited, was based on the café that's open everyday and in the evening when there's a concert on.

This is the map from all the European places where we have been. Or at least where my Google phone has been. At least I can see where the gaps are and places maybe to visit another time.

On the way out I have planned the no toll route that basically is get to Rouen or nearby on the free sections of the motorways and then head across to join the N10 (or whatever it is numbered in each départmente) and head south or south-west.  What about coming back?  Do I want to tread the same path? Or seek out a new one. First step fire up MyRouteApp and select Google Maps. I am currently booked into the El Cid Hotel in Morella. It's about 43 miles from the circuit at Motorland Aragón.  What if I change the El Cid booking and pack my meagre belongings into my panniers on the Sunday morning and head to the track and then use that 43 miles to head off to a new hotel on the way home?   Something to ponder? For now I am assuming I will be solo on this trip. If my brother Neill decides to join me then it will halve the cost of the hotels, and I'll have to change the sleeping arrangements at each hotel!! So what does MyRouteApp come up with. Well. It depends on the...

I have been looking at the non-toll route to the El Cid hotel that will get me/us there on the Friday afternoon.  Having decided on Option 1, ride both ways, I now have to decide how long to take and how long Claire will suffer me being away.  I was looking at a week away or in reality 8 days - two overnights out, three at the GP end, and then two nights back.  If Neill comes along he might want to take longer and that will need some debate. I have booked the hotels in twin bedded rooms but if it is a solo trip, then I will see about changing to a double room and have a big bed just for me.... It's pretty much the same route I took way back in the 80's when I rode with my ex-partner to Biarritz for a week in a villa owned by a colleague at Reuters. We wanted to avoid the toll motorways and what was then called the N10 went all the way from the outskirts of Paris (where we got lost near Versailles) to the Spanish border. Back then I was on the Kettle aka Suzi Triplo. I hav...