Archive for category On The Road

Blog 244 Port Nepean March 2013

At the very end of the Mornington peninsular jutting out between the waters of Port Phillip and Bass Strait is Point Nepean, now a national park sporting a rich history. Evidence of  Aboriginal settlement of the area dates back 40,000 years, Point Nepean was a birthing place for women of the Boonerwrung People. It was [...]

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Blog 243 Revisiting Old Friends Jan – Feb 2013

  On another of the club runs out we revisited George, those with really good memories will recall we stayed with him just before the accident. The MGCofV (Moto Guzzi Club of Victoria) having learnt that he had been unwell phoned to see if he would be up to visitors and an overnight trip was [...]

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Blog 242 Classic racing at Phillip Island Jan 2013

Current News -Well not much has changed from 3rd May when we arrived in Vancouver. The ship has arrived in port but we are still awaiting the bikes arrival in the warehouse, fingers crossed. Meanwhile back to a more abbreviated version of our blogs, still in Melbourne in January.   Blog 242 Classic racing at [...]

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Blog 241 Scoot Around Town January 2013

Current News –We arrived safely in Canada Friday 3rd May to glorious sunshine having spent barely a month at home in the UK whilst the bike made its own way to Canada (via a cargo ship). It was an opportunity to see the folks but it was no holiday as we had visas and loads [...]

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What do you want

Hi to all our overland followers, just thought I’d throw a dilemma I have out to you all. The Blogs are currently four months behind, we are still writing about Melbourne in Jan 2013. Choice – 1. ignore the last four months (incl. a holiday testing the bike in various beautiful parts of Victoria. Followed [...]

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Blog 240 Puffing Billy Jan 2013

Important information for our Posterous subscribers/users. Please note. Posterous has been bought out by Twitter who are closing the entire service down on April 30th 2013 Boo hiss !!! Therefore none of our posterous site will be viewable after this date. We also used a feature of posterous called Autopost to write and distribute our [...]

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Blog 239 FOIM Festival of Italian Motorcycles November – December 2012

There is a section of Melbourne called Lygon street in Carlton that houses most of the Italian cafes and restaurants so it seemed apt that this years FOIM (Festival of Italian Motorcycles) was to be held in its spiritual home, Argyle square nestling amongst the Italian culture of Lygon street. See the full gallery on [...]

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Blog 239 FOIM Festival of Italian Motorcycles November – December 2012

There is a section of Melbourne called Lygon street in Carlton that houses most of the Italian cafes and restaurants so it seemed apt that this years FOIM (Festival of Italian Motorcycles) was to be held in its spiritual home, Argyle square nestli…

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Blog 238 Mods and Rockers Melbourne style November 2012

During our time house sitting at Olinda we got a text from Rob who was currently in Peru. He usually attended the 59 club Mods and Rockers reunion down at Brighton beach in Melbourne on his Norton. “In my absence you should consider kick starting the ‘snorting’ Norton and getting down there, it’s fun!!”. Not [...]

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Blog 238 Mods and Rockers Melbourne style November 2012

During our time house sitting at Olinda we got a text from Rob who was currently in Peru. He usually attended the 59 club Mods and Rockers reunion down at Brighton beach in Melbourne on his Norton. “In my absence you should consider kick starting …

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