stella Trip 06

[redmarcus999]

glad to have you along jim. we do seem to have a split in the camp, me old man and brother are roughing it in hotels, roger and myself are in luxury tents, the choice is yours

[africajim]

Like yourself, I'll be tenting it. Too poor to afford hotels!

So far I've booked the time off work, I've paid my ferry tickets on line, I got the bike and double cabin for £230 from Newcastle to Ijmiuden return. Happy with that, I'd rather have a good nights kip on the boat then ride down through Belgium and France.

Tiger is now fitted with crash bars and race can. Went over to West coast of Scotland with it last week to check out how it'll run two up, seems ok, although the missus preferred the Varadero for pillion! Better on fuel than the Varadero though, I reckon over 50mpg two up and full luggage.

Raymo from the TA forum is still on for going over as well so there'll be a few of us from the forum and UK there. Hopefully we can all meet up for a beer and put a few faces to the names!

Best of luck and I'll see you at Bardonnechia, hope to arrive on the Saturday.