I’d never been to a MotoGP race before but have been following the sport for years. Thought I’d finally book it up and go before Valentino Rossi retires, which can’t be long now, I’d also promised the kids I would take them. Booked the grandstand tickets through the official motogp.com website back in June, they…
Year: 2018
Six Provinces in South Thailand Part 2
Soon it was time to get on the road again and into our next province. I wanted to head into the relatively unexplored Satun province but democracy overruled me and the majority voted for Krabi since half of our party had never been there. Krabi The first thing you notice when travelling from a non-touristy…
Six Provinces in South Thailand Part 1
Following a summer in the UK I was itching to get back on the road in Asia and sniff out some of those undiscovered spots in southern Thailand once again. This was to be a family trip, however, with a group of eight in total with differing agendas, so I had to go with the…
A Scottish Reunion
Four pals who met in the late nineties in Hua Hin decided to have a reunion in Scotland this summer. It was a ten hour drive north in Jonny’s silver bat-mobile to a wee village called Laurencekirk halfway between Dundee and Aberdeen. Our base for the next week was a stone cottage on a little…