First of all we would like to wish you a Very Happy New Year! Hopefully, despite the doom and gloom in the media, the Mayan predictions of impending disaster and the increasingily strange global weather patterns, we will look back on 2012 as another great year for biking, hiking and generally enjoying the Carinthian hospitality! [...]

To those of you have been waiting with bated breath for further instalments of the bike show reports our sincere apologies.   We have always been able to resist anything but temptation and from midweek on we gave in to a succession of invites to meet up with friends after the show.   Curry?  Why not, we [...]

Now I did warn you about not keeping this up! Sorry this is not last night and will be fairly short therefore. But as a small token of my regret I have uploaded all the #motorcyclelive daily videos for you all to watch with awe here. Yesterday was as busy a weekday as we have [...]

Monday morning – we had quite forgotten what it was like fighting your way up the M42 in the rush hour! Where we live 3 cars in an hour constitutes a busy morning! Luckily a fair few of our fellow motorway travellers turned out to be heading to the NEC too and we have had [...]

Its a bike show – so before we talk about our day, we thought you deserved to see some bikes! Another day has brought us lots of interesting visitors, but this time many have been from colleagues old and prospective, often looking to build on relationships that already exist via the ever-growing links we maintain [...]

We start off this blog with the firm intention of updating every evening on how the day @motorcyclelive 2011 has gone for us. We really do mean to try! Of course we may find ourselves tempted from the righteous path by friends and colleagues insisting that we spend our evenings otherwise engaged in the noble [...]

Two weeks from today we will be putting the finishing touches to our new stand at Motorcycle Live. Right now we are surrounded by boxes of leaflets, carrier bags, handouts and bits of our stand.  We are struggling with lists of tasks – so much to do – just to give you an idea I’ve [...]

She may be already back in the UK, but she left this little gem behind for your entertainment, dear reader! AND a promise of Chapter 10 to come yet! Ch. 9 – Destiny grants us our wishes, but in it’s own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes Sunday, as those who [...]

Chapter 8 – On This Loveliest Day of Days The title for this comes from “Shelter”, which is billed as the national anthem of the Federal Commonwealth of Sirocco, a New Zealand micronation.  No, I’d never heard of Sirocco either but doubtless there are people out there who have visited it.  The link, if you [...]

Chapter 7 –Tangled Up In Blue Title courtesy of Bob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue – You Tube.  If you cite your source, it’s not plagiarism.  Technology, despite my avowed Luddite default, does have it’s uses.  The song finishes: “we always did feel the same, just saw it from a different point of view”.  [...]