Thursday was our last day in the Faroe Islands before catching the overnight ferry back to the Lerwick.

Last year when the Shetland Island Cruisers had come up for a visit they had brought along a journalist with them so there was a misunderstanding and they thought that I was also a journalist – I am [...]

On the Saturday in Shetland I had checked my email before going riding and I had an email about the roof leaking again, the vacuum not working, one from my business partner in Turkey and one from my mother saying I needed to sort something out in New Zealand. So I spent a lot [...]

On Tuesday I woke up ready to ride after not drinking at all on Monday. My motorcycle journey up from London at 55 miles an hour had well prepared me for biking in the Faroe Islands where the speed limit is 80 kms per hour (about 50 miles per hour). Though no one [...]

When the Norrőna docked in Tórshavn on Monday morning I was a bit worse for wear after an enjoyable night socialising with Shetland, Faroe and Icelandic motor bikers. For the first few hours we hung around the local Harley dealer who feed us until we could check into our bed and breakfast and afterwards [...]

Dave who put me up for my night in Shetland is a qualified bike instructor and gave me a few pointers on not dumping my bike as I changed down a gear and rather easing out on the clutch and to roll my hand over the front brake. It was good as with all [...]

This morning, after having a lovely evening talking to my cabin room mate and waking up fully refreshed from being rocked to sleep by the movement of the ferry, I disembarked to my very own welcoming party from the Shetland Island Cruisers. I was kindly being put up by Dave and Jacqui who made [...]

The Shetland Islands is an archipelago (100 islands stretching roughly 70 miles of which 14 are inhabited) to the North East of Scotland above the Orkney Islands and mostly lying above the 60 degree latitude north placing them further north than Moscow and online with the centre of the Hudson Bay in Canada. Is [...]

From Derby I rode to the Scottish boarder at 60 miles per hour (4500rpm). An hour before the boarder I had to stop and put on all my thermal wear as it was getting cold. At 2pm just after the boarder I asked the petrol station how long to Aberdeen and found out [...]

Burwins phoned up to say that my bike is fixed. They drained the carburettor. They also changed the back breaks as they were gone which is weird as they were done when I had the MOT done in Jan and I haven’t ridden that much. Either I am using my back break [...]

Even though I have a brand new bike I want to use my old bike to go down to the Isle of Wight festival (the Rolling Stones are playing) in two weeks time. Mainly, because myself and my friend are going and we need the space with the panniers on the bike and it [...]

I am now two days away from the start of my ride from London to the Faroe Islands and I am absolutely packing myself. I finally looked at the weather forecast for Lerwick (Shetland Islands) and it is between 5-10 degree Celsius. I am too scared to look at the forecast for the [...]

I am really worried about this breaking a new bike in stuff. I am not sure how I am suppose to get from London to Aberdeen in an evening and a day at 55 miles per hour. I tried to say to a couple of people surely that was bunkum about having to [...]

My bike on Sunday went from stalling at the lights to not working at all. I changed the air filter hoping that would work. I was pretty pleased as even though it is pretty easy it was the first thing I had done on my bike all by myself. Then I went [...]

On Friday night I went and stayed with my mate in Bracknell. He pillioned me there which was pretty cool as I have only been pillion a couple of times. It was his first time with a passenger so he was a bit nervous going through the London commuter traffic on the wet [...]

I really wanted to blog this week about my bike breaking down – yes, yet again. But my broadband connection hasn’t been working since the 12th. So yes, yet again have I and my flatmate been spending our days on the phone to Orange Support.
Unlike the previous five weeks of outage last year [...]