Sunny

A good night with an overdose of whisky. Just enjoying the sun now at Cromarty..

Stop for lunch.

En route to the Guzzi Rally on the norton. Stopped for lunch at this nice cafe. The roads are really busy which is surprising as we thought everyone would be watching the royal wedding. Nice but cool today.

Guzzi breaks down shock horror

After a great weekend and having a sunny day to travel home the Breva decided it had had enough of me and broke down (23,000 miles) , it appears its not charging but it could be to do with my starting problem that reared its ugly head on Friday. Bottom line was I spent 4 hours at the Invergarry viewing point waiting for the breakdown truck, a nice place to stop but a bit boring for 4 hours. The bike is now home but a quick call around the dealers this morning showed there are no relays to be had in the country!! So tonight I'll be getting stuck into MVD to get it ready for the Guzzi rally this weekend, fork seal to change (a right PITA) and a good check over. The rest of my Guzzi's are without MOT and I don't have time before Friday to sort anything out so I'll be Norton mounted this weekend!
Great weekend though!

Chilling

Brilliant run up on Friday to applecross, 23 degrees and hot. Sat outside the inn until quite late which is unbelievable for April. Saturday and today have been a bit cooler and some rain but not bad at all. David headed back earlier after finding his tyre flat this morning , luckily Gill had some repair goo in a can so that he hopefully got over the bealach. Just spending a chilled day here.

Glencoe

Parked up at Glencoe for lunch. Just stopped for petrol and found my starter isn't working, oh well back to push starts.

Bliss

Its been a very busy start to the week, barely got my head up today from the dreaded computer screen writing reports. It's the last thing you feel like doing when outside its sunny and warm, so much so that when it came to 6.30 I was fed up with this bloody work thing. It was still nice outside so I got the Norton out and had a brilliant run down the small roads. The sun causing a haze over the fields, the sheep with their new born lambs running away from the sound of the Norton in an almost comic fashion, the norton smell of pine from newly cut trees the whole experience just lifts the spirits. You know what? I don't even remember the work thing now. Buy a motorcycle and put all the head doctors out of business.

Air travel

So I find myself this morning at Edinburgh airport very early on this Monday morning. Its funny how they have managed to turn air travel into the most de humanising of experiences. The long queue of Monday morning commuters the 'boots off sir ' the body search when the over sensitive scanner picks up on the plates and screws holding my ankle together and of course the search carried out by an Asian, the stroppy staff reveling in their position of power. And I just heard my flight is delayed. What a shite way to travel!