On the Road Again!

CORONA UPDATE Vanwege de huidige – en de te verwachten corona maatregelen rondom evenementen heeft het bestuur van de Suzuki T & GT Nederland in overleg met de participanten besloten dat het Internationaal Treffen 2021 NIET doorgaat. Due to the current and expected corona measures surrounding events, the board of the Suzuki T&GT club has decided that the International Meeting 2021 will NOT take place. Aufgrund der aktuellen und erwarteten Koronamaßnahmen hat der Vorstand des Suzuki T & GT club dass das Internationale Treffen 2021 NICHT stattfinden wird. Update 1712h . Hotel booking cancelled.

This even was one of the targets I had set for getting the Kettle back on the road.  When I set it we were still under the first lockdown but we were hopeful that a year of being in this deep shit pandemic would be enough. I am currently working from home (I have blogged about this already) and the anniversary of my last working day in the office is only 9 days away. So back to the  T and GT Club Nederland 21st Anniversary Rally.  I last went with Claire as my pillion in 2004. We actually went for the day from UK. It was a long day in the saddle but was much nearer that the current site.  According to the MyRouteApp route I have planned for the TomTom it looks to be about four and a half hours in the saddle. I intend to use the Beeline as I don't have the kit to fit the TomTom to the Kettle. Importing the route from MyRouteApp as a .gpx file into Beeline Moto App on my phone should allow the chosen route that includes fuel stops as waypoints to appear and take m...

Okay as previously posted I have set this as a target for next year. The Rally/Treffen is at the end of the school half-term weekend in London. The rally entry price includes camping.  I have not camped for many years and a brief look at tents on Amazon and eBay shows that a small one/two person tent could be had for about £30 to £35.  And one that is as easy (!) to put up as an umbrella. But, with my various medical conditions I am afraid camping is not for me.  So I had a look around on booking.com for somewhere like a B&B or hotel within easy reach of the rally site. There is a rally ticket price that includes all the events but not camping and the rider has to book their own hotel. According to Google maps there is a hotel on the same road as the rally site and is 350 metres away.  So I booked it with the free cancellation option. Het Spijkerhuys is going to cost about €70 a night with no breakfast.  I don't have to pay until 17th May and I have free can...