Featured Spain On Our Bonneville

Had a week in Cantabria N. Spain and got back Monday morning.
Went with 1 x 30 litre Kreiga dry bag strapped to the standard Triumph rack and a 20 x litre Kreiga bag attached to the larger one.
Lastly we had an old expandable Hein Gericke tank bag, all we needed for the week was easily carried by this arrangement which was rock solid and more than adequate.
The mirror extenders fitted prior to leaving were indispensable and gave a full view to the rear.
Weather was perfect some cloudy very warm days ideal for trips into the mountains and hot sunny days for beach, swimming and ludicrously cheap wine at night.
The vented jacket and trousers I bought for the trip were ideal as well.
Brittany Ferries were a mixed bag I thought, never returning to release the retaining straps and not arriving to attach the strap on the return journey despite us hanging around for ten sweaty uncomfortable minutes to see the bike secured.
I wanted to see this done in case any damage was caused to save potential disputes later on.
As it happened all was well and I did leave the Kreiga bags attached to the bike for each passage without any problem.
All in all a brilliant week and so easy to do, I had several concerns on the ride down to Portsmouth all of which turned out to be no problems at all!

Curly

 

Andy,
I took a few photos with an ancient digital camera which won't amount to much I expect. I am totally out of touch with all computer related issues, I mean totally, what I'm doing now is the extreme limit of my capabilities!
My son who looks after all these things for me is currently away walking the Appalachian Trail but has almost finished it so will be home in a few weeks, if you can be bothered to wait until he gets around to fixing it for me, I will get them up then, warts and all.
When we were waiting on the bikes to disembark the ferry at Santander I was chatting to a bloke on the bike next to me, he was flabbergasted to discover that I was using an OS type map in my old tank bag and not a GPS contraption, that's how I operate, it's worked for the last 57 years but seems to be wearing a bit thin now, unfortunately.
Sorry to disappoint, it's the best that I can do.

Curly

 

I couldn't agree more Big Lad.
My journeys can become a bit McGregor Boorman esque if you know what I mean, but always a pleasure, more so as the wife never complains about being out on the bike!

Curly

 

Morning Mick,
He invited me to accompany him since he is alone, I thought long and hard about that one but reluctantly had to acknowledge that my knees are simply no longer upto this type of abuse and opted out.
He totally understood and is on course to finish in 5 months rather than the 6 he had anticipated.
Had I gone along we would still have been limping Northwards through Tennessee with no prospect of finishing at all.

Curly

 

We took the Brittany ferry from Pompey to Santander, followed by a short coastal ride to Noja, dead easy.
I wore my Ventilated Dainese jacket and ventilated trousers, open face helmet and lightweight gloves.
If it had rained I would have been in trouble but it was hot and dry continuously, even to Pompey and back, so we got lucky!

Curly

 

I knew that would crop up!
Just not able to do that stuff with my Olympus Trip 35, but I will talk to someone who can help out soon

Curly

 

Some pictures at last.
Picture 1 - mountain road CA 265 Puerto del Ason
Picture 2 - bike in observation point on mountain
Picture 3 - view from mountain road
Picture 4 - local beach Noja
Picture 5 - our accommodation in Noja, from the street showing off road covered bike parking

 

Booked up again this year, can't wait, closer to the Picos this time.
Now got Kriega side panniers as well for more carrying capacity.

 

Noja is a nice little town, a stones throw from the ferry, we liked it a lot.

 

Thanks for that info Biglad, can you just confirm whether would that be an imperial or one of those new fangled metric ones?