Return of the Red Lion Bikers... Europe 2011

'How about we do a 2000 mile bike tour around the USA...' - T Matthews (non compos mentis, 06/09)

Welcome to your personal insight into the progress, trials (hopefully metaphoric not literal) and tribulations that befall us on our two week trip from San Francisco through a lot of west coast United States and back again.
I hope this blog will give anyone who's interested (maybe you need to get out more) a look at what is going on once we set off on our American adventure.
For anyone who doesn't know, the Red Lion Bikers referred to herein are...
Andy Reid, Shaun 'Digger'Halliwell, Chris Colder, Pete Robinson, Tony Matthews and Neil Heldreich
The bikes are booked, everyone's paid up, gear is being acquired (though quite what Tony needs a wholesale batch of Anusol for is anyone's guess) and we set off on Sunday 28th March.
We hope to have a lot of laughs and if you'd like a few too then read on...

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Return of the Red Lion Bikers... Europe 2011

Hello again and a belated happy new year to you all. Now as you can see from the accompanying snaps, time spent since April has been largely frittered and wasted on puerile pursuits largely to the sole benefit of your friend and mine, St Terence, but in the depths of this winter not everything has been dormant and cold down Hollington way...

In a move which is likely to test the true meaning of the 'Entente Cordiale' (which to us just sounds like posh orange squash) the gentlemen of the Red Lion Bikers are pleased to announce that their 'once in a lifetime' trip to the USA in 2010 was actually just the forerunner of what, on the quiet at least, is now officially an annual event. This year we go to Europe.

So, to all our European neighbours (viz your sillee accents and ladies viz zee hairy armpits)... you thought that the debt crisis, contagion and the sinking Euro were problems... i'm afraid you were wrong and have seen nothing yet...

We leave these shores on 21st May for two weeks which will take us to places we've never heard of... France, Spain, Andorra (surely a made up name for a country??), Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Belgium.

Now, if any of you out there in internet land would like to once more share in our exploits (surely there must be more than three of you??) then please follow the link to an all new blog which will be live over the next few days :-

www.rlbeurope2011.blogspot.com

I would like to be able to promise you an inspiring and informative travelogue as we traverse Europe but in reality it will probably be yet more of the same drunken and inane ramblings but please do join in and feel free to add your oh-so-enlightening comments once more.

As a bit of an appetiser and aide memoir (yep... you'd better get used to all the faux French and there'll be plenty of 'double entendres' too no doubt) take a look at this (courtesy of Tony Matthews, apologies to the ELO...). Click here... Wild West Heroes...