Non-Motorcycle Meanders

Other Adventures Anywhere

 

Motorcycling isn’t everything. Other things in my life also merit a few pages telling about them. This section will be a repository for adventures that aren’t on a motorcycle. There probably won’t be many!

I’d previously thought about such a page, but other priorities always won out. However, with the imminent adventure of a voyage on HMB Endeavour, I decided I needed to launch this page forthwith.

Subsequent to that, I have had a few other non-motorcycle meanders; and recollected a few previous ones.

Kirtling

Kirtling is a tiny hamlet in Cambridgeshire near the Suffolk border in UK. It’s somewhere no road passes through to go anywhere! You have to want to go there. My great grandfather, William Crick, was born and worked there. So too, his parents and their parents lived, worked and were buried there. My visit was part nostalgia,  part self-discovery and part research. It was enlightening in all respects.


Rome and Venice

A few days in each of these amazing Italian cities preceded my Dalmatia Tour in 2010. I’d never been to Italy but had a long association with Rome through classical studies and ecclesiastical links – all more or less intangible but real enough. Venice was my choice for a second city and proved a good one. It was also conveniently located to get to Ljubljana for the start of the Dalmatia Tour.




HMB Endeavour

This was a five day voyage as a member of the ship’s crew on HMB Endeavour from 25-29 April 2010. Here’s a chance to sail with me – if only in retrospect.



Al-Andalus

Prior to my Morocco tour in 2009, I spent some time in Madrid and southern Spain, visiting Toledo, Seville and Cordoba. There was an area of Spain under Moorish rule called Al-Andalus. I hadn’t set out with this concept in mind, but it was a perfect prelude to Morocco.

Jordan

I took the opportunity of visiting Jordan before undertaking the Turkey tour in 2008. It’s a special place worth capturing. I kept a detailed diary so that has helped to write it up - some three years after the event! It was a good introduction to the Middle east and a relevant prelude to the Turkey tour.



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