Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

CROWBOROUGH TO CATALONIA

It’s a dream many have, to sell up everything in the UK, head off to somewhere warm and sunny and earn a living doing what you enjoy most – in our case riding motorbikes. A new start and a challenge at that time of life when you are starting to count down to retirement rather than chasing a career. We did it, so how did it come about and how has it worked out? In late May 2016 my wife Debbie and I rode down to Barcelona to watch the MotoGP, encountering foul weather and petrol strikes across France. A little bit cold and fed up after three extremely grim days, we finally woke up to sunshine as we prepared to cross the

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