I have been a long time lurker on HU, always reading riding reports, and thinking 'One day, I will do that!' (Thank you to all the posters for your awesome reports/photos). Anyway, my to me has finally come and I am finally doing it. We have both quit our jobs and are doing 6 months around Europe. If anyone has any tips/advice/wants to grab a few drinks in a country, or go for a ride out, then please do message me. We are leaving the trip open, but the rough line is start in Spain, follow the med round to Southern Italy, hop across to greece, Turkey, then back round to the UK via Northern Europe. I will update this thread with posts from our blog. The blog is aimed at our none biking friends but I hope you will enjoy it too.

First blog post;

Is it just us or is time speeding up?

We left Yorkshire just over two days ago, but it honestly feels like over two weeks.... In the space of two days we have met up with Jess's best friend in Leicester, had a coffee at Costa, met up with Dan's best friend Ben in Bedford, bought supplies from Go outdoors, visited Jo & family (who are friends of Jess's family), walked around a nature reserve, had a couple of pints at the local pub, travelled all the way down to Portsmouth, and we are now finally on the ferry sailing to Santander.

The two of us have both been talking about travelling for months and months. Now that we are actually doing it, it all feels very surreal.

Suzi (the Suzuki (motorcycle)) hasn't had any major upsets so far - the satnav stopped working whilst we were travelling down to Bens, but we some how managed to navigate ourselves to Bedford. That said, we did require an escort from Ben once we got into Bedford... Anyway, not to worry, we figured out how to reboot the bloody thing, so we are hoping from now on it shouldn't give us too much more trouble.

Apologies that this first post is a little short but we wanted to at least make a start. We promise that future posts will be longer, with a lot more pictures.