Bank holiday weekend

Normally the Guzzi rally weekend and now a year since we should have been leaving for Russia etc, slowly restrictions are being lifted but as always the rules seem nonsensical. Friday night we went out for a meal in a restaurant for the first time in months, it was a great meal but soulless, no tablecloths because of Covid apparently, leaving your name and number before sitting down, wearing a mask until you get seated and no alcohol with your meal. Its not exactly the going out for a meal experience we expect. 

Its ok to drink beer outside but the opening of outdoor bars in Scotland (a ridiculous concept) has been greeted by an Arctic front sweeping in, high winds and rain, temperatures far away from double digits, I feel sorry for the people trying to make a living with our draconian rules. Saturday we had a run to the seaside, apart from getting wet slightly on the way there and soaked on the way home it was pleasant, still using the heated jackets though as the temperature in May is still bloody cold on a bike. We stopped at a well known bike shop in Cupar and I'm sorry to say apart from an MV in the window there was nothing exciting there, Covid and Covid rules has even sucked the life out of bike shops.

After getting home and drying out for an hour we set off again on the bikes to meet some of the crew at Dunkeld for the evening, the Taybank has a great outdoor seating area, it was great to see people again face to face and not just on a computer screen. It was cold though and we were glad to have the full bike gear on, as I said in Scotland the re are rarely more than a couple of handfuls of days when Al fresco eating or drinking could be classed as pleasant. Our return to Perth saw us narrowly miss a huge hailstorm and downpour but not the aftermath of flooded roads, the bikes and chains certainly needed some TLC after that a wee darm and the Guzzi club zoom meeting with the central heating at full pelt! Sunday we managed a lunch al fresco avec motos and it was pleasant but luckily we got home and the bikes cleaned before weather Armageddon was unleashed once again. So that was the May Bank Holiday weekend, wet, cold  but some motorcycling and some real and virtual interaction, och it wisnae bad at all!

Very stylish

Triumphs at the Beach, also very stylish

It was bordering on pleasant

Blue skies

But clouds were gathering