The countdown to another Pyrenees Adventure has started!!

Sunday 18th August 19

Routes are planned and loaded in the Sat Nav, the GS is serviced and fitted with new tyres; one week from now I will be finalising the packing ready for setting off for Portsmouth to catch the ferry to Le Havre in France as the start point for approx. 3500 miles road trip to the Pyrenees. I can’t wait 🙂 😎

The route will take D roads down through France and criss cross between the French and Spanish sides of the Pyrenees mountain range, then back into France via Andorra. From Millau I will be heading across to Cannes and coming back up via the Route Napoleon to Lyon and on northwards via the Vosges and into Belgium; maybe touching Germany and Luxembourg, before making for the Eurotunnel at Calais and back home.

I’ll be riding with the same group as last year; Bernard, Stuart, Gary and Mike, but joined this time by another GS rider, Steve, who couldn’t make it last year. We have a mix of bikes; 4 BMWs, (K1300s, K1200s, GS x2), a Ducati Multistrada 950 and a Triumph Tiger Sport 1050.

Being retired I have more time available than the others and therefore I need not rush back, so I will leave the group after Millau as they head back to Le Havre and will take a leisurely route back; calling in to see friends at Rasteau, in the Cotes du Rhone wine region of France, then moving on to the Gorges du Verdon near Castellane, which I have always wanted to ride. A quick pop into Cannes to do a bit of posing on La Croisette and then back to Calais via the fabulous Route Napoleon and various non Mway routes, passing through Luxembourg and the Belgian Ardennes. 15 days away on the road and about 3500 miles in total. Should be sunny all the way..hopefully 😎

I’ll try to find time to post updates during the trip, so stay tuned if you’d like to follow this adventure. 🙂

LIVING THE DREAM