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Old 29 Mar 2012
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Hola Javier and Sandra

Would be more than willing to put you up at my house near Stratford-upon-Avon towards end of July. I am away with Bushman in Germany from June onwards but if we are back in UK will be more than willing to show you Shakespeare's county and surrounding Cotswolds - Oxford etc

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I live in Bristol (about 40 miles north west of Stonehenge) we have a spare room and a garage if you need a place to stay/ store bikes.

We home most of july or august and heading to ripley at the begining of the month.

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Hello

You are more than welcome to drop in. Can put you up or just ride out and show you a bit off Suffolk/Norfolk. Can squeeze in the house or plenty of room in the garden to camp.

July fine weekends would be better door is always open to travelers.

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You go one way we go the other! We dock in BA mid May, if we had been at home you would of been more than welcome.

Is the shop going to be open in BA as we were hoping to stay a few days before we headed off into SA.

We can help if you need info etc.

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Hi you are both welcome to stay, have got large caravan in front garden with electric and running water, all mod cons. Live also southend-on-sea, essex
Just PM me and enjoy your visit Barry
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Hi Javier & Sandra, If you like places to visit like StoneHenge, Woodhenge is just along the road from there, & Avebury is good & we have Stanton Drew in Somerset. Don't forget UK is a compact country with lots of traffic and apart from the Motor ways, which we don't like riding on, alot of roads are quite narrow. Yes Wales is a must to visit & the West country is good, we are in Somerset near Wells about one & half hours from Stonehenge. The North coast of Devon & Cornwall are beautifull, but July & August are busy hols time and the campsites over here get quite full.
You can contact us through the Bristol community HU site.
Hope the plans go well this time.
Lyn & Arthur
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Hi Javier and Sandra
If you're heading further north in the UK you can stay at mine near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire until 06 July. Then it's the HU UK meet in Ripley, Derbyshire. Between 7th and 13th July I may be around the UK, but am not certain where, if at all. From 14th July onwards I'm away riding in Central Asia.

It'd be great to meet you.

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Hey guys, I live in London and you are welcome to stay a few days if you guys need somewhere to stay.
I will be at the UK meet of HU.

Amanda, I too am working on the Olympic. I will be in the closing ceremony.
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Javier & Sandra

I live in portsmouth on the south coast and a spare room you are more than welcome to stay.
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Hola Sandra y Javier, I should be back in UK mid July and would look forward to meeting up again. You are welcome any time in Norwich. I will continue to watch this thread with interest to see your plans.

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Welcome in the south east!
Hey,

I live in the south east, Southend on Sea, and though we only have a one bed room flat we would gladly put you up on our couch or in our back yard. I also have a garden office that should be cozy and dry by this summer.

I'll be heading to the Derby meeting too so if you are there it would be great to meet up.

I rode here on an US license for 3 months on 'green card' insurance (really expensive) then a further 6 months on insurance I got through footman james but I think they closed the scheme down.

Loads of cheap bikes about if you are not fussy on type of bike or age but sports type machines are he most plentiful in the UK.

If there is anything I can do please don't hesitate to contact me at:
mike (dot) jansen at gmail (dot) com or PM me on the HUBB!

Mike
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I rode here on an US license for 3 months on 'green card' insurance (really expensive) then a further 6 months on insurance I got through footman james but I think they closed the scheme down.

Loads of cheap bikes about if you are not fussy on type of bike or age but sports type machines are he most plentiful in the UK.


Mike
Buenas dias Javiar y Sandra,

Mi nombre is Ian, soy de Canada.

Just wished to add to the above. I am from Canada and just recently (this month) purchased a motorbike in the UK and had it insured. You also need to get the road tax too, just so you know.

They key, as noted in earlier posts; is to have a UK address to use. Also, with the help of another Hubber, we found out that if you phone the insurance office, they have little boxes on the form in front of them they need to tick off. Swinton was the insurer used.

I will of course have an IDP with me as well.

If you don't fit into those boxes on their form, they don't know what to do , and won't insure you. We went online, and filled out the forms, and everything worked out okay. Seems when you say you are from overseas it throws them for a loop!

I will be over mid May to early July, and have stored the bike at a friends place South East of London until then. The same address I used for the insurance.

Si puedo mas ayudar, escribe mi, y pardon me Espanol. Estoy un estudiante de Espanol, y necisito mucho practicar!

Que tengas un buen dia. Saludos.

Ian
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Closer to make a dream come true…
Last year we pop up with the dream of a short travel trough UK, give back visits to old friends and maybe attend to the HU-Meeting but things made us put in standby that dream.
Now dream is back and hopefully this time will happen.
As we post that time bike isn’t a problem we have some offers if we can solve the insurance. And of course many offer of places to stay.
This time the post is to know who will be around, tell you that we really would like to see you, and visit that place we hear so many great stories about.
Any advice will be more than welcome, UK bike insurance for a foreigner rider, places must be visited, roads....anything you think we should know.
This time things will be in the opposite, we will be the guest and you the host. Hasta pronto... Javier & Sandra

Hi for best Roads look up website called Best Biking Roads.com every country in the world & the best Rds to rid on are there.
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