The planning for the trip could start in earnest now.  We had two things in mind from the very beginning, two weeks on the Isle of Man to watch the crazy or as Maurice prefers to call them extremely gutsy,TT riders. Yes you guessed it, that was Maurice's idea.  My part of the deal was I wanted to go to the Edinburgh Tattoo, must be all those years of being around uniforms. By the way that's is where the blog name came from, just in case you were wondering.

Safely tucked away in its new room.



Map of the I.O.M.
(R.I.P. Deano)



The map of the UK & Europe with some of the proposed places to visit.

You can't really tell from the map but the trip will start with us flying into Barcelona Spain to collect the bikes from the shipping terminal.  It will end about 51/2 months later when we drop the bikes off at the shipping terminal at Felixstowe UK.