Stuff Covid and Stuff Brittany Ferries!
ACT route we plan to follow
In 2020 we planned a a trip to Portugal on (at the time) Williams' BMW R1200RT and Edwards' Honda Cross Dresser. The ferry was booked, the route was drawn up and we were all set to go. And then Rona decided to invent a new world order and the trip was canned. Brittany Ferries, in true large faceless organisation fashion refused to give us our money back for the trip but 'generously' gave us vouchers to the same value so long as we spent them in two years. They neglecting to mention that they may put the prices up a little by the time we could eventually use them. Oh well, up yours Brittany Ferries.
Fast forward 2 years, Rona is now just the new flu and we are all just getting on with it, we have both changed our bikes to BMW R1250 GSA's and its time to spend those vouchers.
The change in value of the tickets forced us to change our plans somewhat and barely having enough funds to cross the Mersey now we chose to sail to France. We would cross over to St Malo and then ride down to the Pyrenees.
We scoured magazines and maps trying to plan a route, we even looked at a previous trip to see if there were any routes we had missed and then we came across ACT (Adventure Country Tracks). ACT is a registered non-profit organisation whose mission is to establish and maintain off-road routes and tracks in European countries for so-called adventure motorcycles / dual purpose bikes. Interesting, so, overnight we had a plan.
Roll on a few more months and some evil nutter in Russia declares war in Europe and bang just like that, fuel prices have double. Time for a rethink on the plan again. B&B's will now be a luxury to be adopted when its pissing it down and a canvas B&B house is the new idea. Despite having the same bikes Williams and Edwards have very different ideas on what motorcycle camping looks like. Edwards has gone for the more minimalist, at one with nature approach, while Williams, well let's just say Williams needs a bigger bike.
Edwards is chuffed with the minimalist pack size of his tent
Williams 'I think I need a bigger bike'
Roll on the 14th April 2022
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