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It's only a couple of hours on the highway and we arrive at our next stop (No, not Arches National Park): Visiting our very good friends, Thomas and Eva in Belgium! It's only been a year since they visited us in Thailand, but we've missed them so much! We're spending the weekend with them...

Trying to find the tickets for our Eurotunnel reservation to take us back under the English Channel Neda and I get separated on the train! The doors close between our bikes When we exit the train at Calais, France, we follow the line of vehicles out into the roadway. We have to drive on the...

Inside the Queen's Theatre! Neda has always wanted to see Les Misérables, which is one of her favorite plays. She's listened to the soundtrack a million times, seen the movie, and the play was set to come to Toronto in 2013, but we had already left on our trip by then. But now that we're in...

As we leave the Ace Cafe, Nick, a fellow rider from Italy spots our license plates and we chat a bit If people we meet along the way show interest in our trip, I normally hand them a business card with our blog and contact information on it. Later on that evening, I find this picture sitting in...

Updated from http://www.RideDOT.com/rtw/369.html It's been six weeks since we last left London to tour the British Isles and it's been such a wonderful leg of our trip - rounding the top of the Scottish Highlands, island hopping from the Isle of Man to Ireland, then meandering down the Wild...

Stonehenge!!! We're zigging and zagging all over southern England now, on our way out. Stonehenge is my pick on the list of things to see. Not because it's got any archaeological or cultural significance. It's because I first saw it on an episode of "In Search Of...", a sci-fi documentary...

Back in town, we grab some lunch. We see that the tourism department is capitalizing on the fossil trade Outside the bakery, having a Cornish Pasty The Cornish Pasty is a baked pastry filled with mince meat, onion and potato and is the national dish of Cornwall, on the southern tip of the UK...

Look what she discovered!!! Actually, she just found them lying on the ground. Her cave-man skills didn't turn up anything but a couple of sore arms. Not to be outdone, I show her my find! Actually, Neda found this one too. I'm just posing with it. These are super-cool! Obviously we can't...

The beach at Lyme Regis is called The Cobb I watch as she paces up and down the beach, staring at the ground looking for fossils. No luck. We see a guy walk past us with a small pick and hammer and a bucket of black rocks. They look like fossils. We ask him where he found them. He told us we...

And then taking the roadways straight-shot down to our next stop, all the way to the southern coast of England. We're staying in the Black Hills, between Somerset and Devon. We've got an AirBnB booked, a small, secluded cottage out in the woods. But once again, we have troubles finding it on our...

A very strange prison, indeed Like most 60s TV shows, the themes were about counter-culture, defying authority and surveillance, and mistrust of the government. But the one theme that resonated with me was the expression of individuality. These days, with all our identities being reduced to...

Along the way, I prepared Neda for our next stop over the intercom: "Who are you?" "The new Number Two." "Who is Number One?" "You are Number Six." "I am not a number! I am a free man!" "Ah hahah hahahahaha!!!!" When I was a kid, I used to watch an old TV show called "The Prisoner". It was...

Apart from dragons, Beddgelert is also known as the final resting place for Gelert, Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd's faithful hound. It's a popular folk tale that's been retold in many other places, in other forms. Llywelyn came home to find his baby missing, and Gelert's mouth covered in...

Our route takes us south through Snowdonia National Park, and we take a pit stop in the town of Beddgelert for lunch Snowdonia is a popular place for vacationers to go hiking. It's based around the Snowdon mountain, so the roads around the area twist and wind around the geography of mountains...

Updated from http://www.RideDOT.com/rtw/368.html Goodbye Ireland! We had a great time! The ferry from Dublin takes us across the North Channel, back to the UK. We're slowly unwinding our tour of the British Isles. It's a quick jaunt. In less than a couple of hours we're deposited on the...

It was kind of rainy and foggy that day, we'll just have to re-visit when it's sunny! Whenever that is... :rolleyes:

This is our last day in Ireland. And what a tour it's been! The Wild Atlantic Way has definitely been a highlight but we've been going non-stop for a few months now - the longest stretch without a break in a while. It's been enjoyable for the most part, but our pacing is way off the way we...

The tasting room only has these shot-glasses of Guinness. Not exactly what we were hoping for... Another floor is dedicated to showing all the Guinness advertising. More distractions, but the main event... ... is the rolicking pub on the top floor of the building. This is where the party is...

Yes, we don't pay admission to go to museums or historic buildings. But we do pay to see where they brew beer... Priorities. The first thing everyone does in the Guinness factory is hit the gift store Wow, so many different ways you can consume your Guinness. The toffee and caramel products...

The next day, we head out into the city to explore. And because we're on bikes, It rains. Of course it does. Of course... We're really only interested in seeing one thing in Dublin. Cobblestones where we are headed to... At St James Gate, huge metal tanks tower 30 feet high in the air...