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A meeting of two genocidal fascist dictators.......and Yen's looking for personal grooming tips! It could only happen on here!

In terms of abandoned villages Belchite is the most striking.......and by far the darkest with 3000 dead in the Spanish Civil War.

Apparently Hitler said (after meeting Franco) that he never wished to meet him again! Coming from Hitler that pretty much says it all. And as far as I know, no other leader of a country has ever asked other countries to kill it's own citizens as in the Bombing of Guernica.

I've uncovered a rather sinister bit of info about the abandoned village I'm going to search for on Sunday. You may remember that with all these villages the reason so far for them being empty is economic. Because people moved to the bigger towns and cities to get work. But not with this one.......because the residents were made to leave and their homes demolished! And there's a pattern of villages being forcibly depopulated throughout Spain during the years of the Franco dictatorship up to 1975. In this case, the creation of the Cazorla-Segura National Hunting Reserve in 1960 required a change in the usage of large tracts of land, land that contained a number of villages and hamlets. So the residents were evicted in order that the state could take their land. This is Dark Motorcycling for sure!

Get voting everybody!

I can relate! Not that I shunted anybody......just that I made the discovery I hadn't been able to see where I was going for years.......by forgetting to take my glasses off when I got in the car. I'm a big fan of vision!

That's a nice shot @Skippy!

This isn't the one where you rammed her up the ass Tym?

Looks like "Wankers Doom" to me!

I said there was a Syd Barrett element to it.

Nothing spiritual.......finally having transport, pulling birds, and general posing were my motivation!

Amazing report Fred! And I think you've embraced Dark Motorcycling! Because there wasn't any disaster sites.......so you created your own. Grim skies, wrecked bikes, injuries requiring medication to get through the day.......and even radioactive sheep! It doesn't get any better than this!

Yeh.....fantastic achievement!

And we've just had another one of the guys put in the Sin Bin!

.......that get asked on FaceButt bike groups! WTF do you make of this one? "How many folks have ridden to the point of a nearly nirvana, astral projection type of fisheye type vision?" Is this guy seeing something that I don't........or has he dropped too much acid listening to Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd? Can you make any sense out of it?

Brilliant Michelle!

Have I mentioned to you that @Tym is unstable Michelle?

Hear that you Lawnmower owners?

Didn't somebody's lawnmower win BOTM on MB once?

And I didn't see any blatant motoring offences either!

Spoke to him on FB to see if he'd locked himself out again......but he's been busy with work and family stuff.

That's the truth of it @boboneleg Fred's only able to do his stuff part time these days.......as he's usually otherwise preoccupied with getting back onto the forum after blacklisting himself.

I am Bob.......I got dangerously close to water today.......and I wasn't on tarmac either! At my age I can't be taking risks like that! Swerving around erratically on public roads as if I'm in an episode of CHiPs is my niche! What you say @Tym?