On the Road Again!

Whilst sitting at the laptop, sound turned up, and logged into work email and helpdesk, what better way is there to while away the time? Exactly. Planning a holiday trip that I'll never actually go on! 🤪 It was all because I caught the tail end of a travel programme on TV where they had flown to Marrakesh  I was curious to see how far it would be to ride there. It's over 1900 road miles from Calais. That much was easy enough to work out. Once there hotels, with parking and with the usual booking.com free cancellation and no pre-payment options, seem very reasonable.

Is it that long ago? Another tale from the photobox archive. A year before I was made redundant for the second time and things were good. I had a job I liked and we set off for Spain. This was a two bike job. My Suzuki Cavalcade LX  and my partner at the time, Audrey,  on her own Yamaha  XJ900F.  We rode down through Spain after a trip on the Motorail. We had a large tent with us and camped in Cordoba and as it was way too hot in Sevilla we chose a hotel. Our next camping was at Tarifa. It was here that we thought about a quick trip to Tangier.  Although the ferry goes from Tarifa we bought a ticket from Algeciras to Ceuta. The cost for the bike was pence.  We booked one - the Yamaha! The Cavalcade stayed tucked away and locked up in the tent. Out of sight. Algeciras is a much bigger port and the ferry was packed. Mostly with Moroccan's in large vans also packed to the gunwales and on the rooves. Ceuta is still a Spanish enclave on the African mainland. Buy...