Category: On two wheels to Spiel

It’s here folks! Roll up! Get your eyes open as the world’s biggest boardgame event opens its doors to the public. Outside the event there’s quite a buzz. People are arriving from shuttle buses, the underground stations and nearby streets. I almost had my hat on properly for this photo 😂 This is the crazy…

This is it, the destination for this curly wurly route of a trip! Essen in Germany! The route from just north of Hamburg to Essen is pretty straightforward. Basically just motorways (or, the famous autobahn) so an easy day, right? First off, the day looked cloudy, so I layered up for wet weather. I set…

The sun was shining this morning in Hirtshals, Denmark. With a long journey ahead, it was soon time to get going. It turns out that the Sat Nav connector fix didn’t like motorway speeds. So a more substantial deployment of duct tape was called for 😂 That fix has lasted all day ☺️ I was…

My last day in Norway on this trip. I’ve absolutely loved the terrain, the people, the weather, the hotdogs 😂 Writing in the little guestbook at the Airbnb (donated by a travelling couple, as they explain in the first entry) reminded me of how far I’ve ridden. In some ways it feels like it’s taken…

Talk about lucky! More sunshine than you could shake a stick at today. Although, I didn’t have a stick 😂 The morning began with a visit to the centre of Stavanger. An imposing sight is the Norwegian Oil Museum. I’ve been in there before and it’s a fascinating place. Outside the museum are various oil…

I was expecting traditional Bergen rain today. But crikey and blimey it was sunny again today. Am I a lucky boy or what? I headed back to Bergen this morning to do a few last things. I also wanted to see the city one more time before heading south. I was in the mood for…

It was always part of the plan to stay in Bergen for a whole day. It’s known as a rainy city, but today the sunshine really stood out. There was a little rain to begin with, and although the phrase is cheesy…it’s worth looking for rainbows. And there was a double rainbow this morning. A…

It’s been a little ambition of mine to ride my motorbike to Bergen. In some ways it’s a silly thing to want to do, but it’s something I knew would be very rewarding. It was also an important job to eat the last bits of food that we had bought over the last few days…

Seemingly some of the delicious things yesterday did not agree with me. I was reminded of two things today. One was a poetry session years ago, hosted by Giovanni “Spoz” Esposito. He recited a poem of his own devising in which the protagonist experiences a bout of illness. He describes his bum like a boxer;…