Pedro

Hard packed, smooth, grippy dirt? That road, please!! Your reports make me want to go to France.

Bike looks sad with that trunk on top As if this wasn't enough: Now:

It would be cheap to run compared to fuel costs of driving there and back to shovel snow, just plumb the school's heating through the stairs and it'll work perfectly.

I vote for heated steps, then.

I am sure it is a silly idea, but I'll ask anyway. Why not just put a carpet over that snow and have the kids walk over it? Then roll it back up for the night and do the same the next day?

Never look a gifted horse in the mouth?

I have no confidence at all in taking my bike on sand. Never had good tires for it, either, but that heavy front wheel scares me. What a great ride this is, keep posting. The bikes, the food, baja, just great. The sunsets, though, you´ll still have sunsets if you make it to the hotel before dark

The expression "like watching paint dry" never had such a match for a thread as this.

Seals are raping penguins. That's a fact. Apparently the seals claim they are forced to it because of global heating. Global heating is also a fact, but I can't see rape as an exit Poor penguins

To describe a loose woman: "she's as whorish as a chicken" because of how hens offer their behinds to roosters, I assume

In Portugal, that"either fuck, or get off (from top of her)"

I’ve crossed France many times by car on motoways, but only a couple of times on small roads. Yours seem the best kind of rolling hills and sweeping corners on a rural background, they make me want to go there, which is nothing like I have felt before.

The guy’s father?

One nut is enough, from what I have been told. It’s the attitude that matters. Also better for riding a motorcycle in the summer.

Good luck @Tym, surgery is always an anxious experience.

To me, that's perfectly adequate, just because Spain wants tourism money doesn't mean England has to think it's ok for their citizens to go there.

This made me smile, someone Portuguese government related said the other day that if you refuse to have your Astra Zeneca vaccine based on wanting to choose brand of vaccine, you'll be waiting for quite a while to be called back

Internal tourism would keep a lot of tourism business afloat by themselves, without actually having people contact with people from all over the world, and making thousands of people go through crowded airports. That would mean all you brits and northerners wouldn't be able to fly over to enjoy the sunshine, somehow that bothers me none

Portugal is the same in the Algarve, and 30 or 40% of that importance all over. However, you must consider that Germany is happy to allow their citizens to go to an area that is considered dangerous by that own country's government, that also does not make much sense. I would say there is a case to be made for closing country borders to tourism, instead of allowing tourism international flights.

Saw something funny regarding Spain yesterday. They are accepting bookings for tourists from Germany and other places to go for a holiday on the beach, and yet have their own regions closed in

It's a virus that spreads on people to people contact, and it starts spreading when people start contacting with each other? That is indeed very suspicious.

Less close with the spray, Pete, lighter coats each time.

In your case it's literally true

"Oh puta, deita-te" This is not so much a Portuguese saying, but a northern Portugal expression. It's not really PC, translates into "Oh whore (as in prostitute), lay down". You apply it when you confronted with a situation that could easily be resolved but someone is making it more difficult than it needs to be, or when problems just keeps piling up and you can't solve one before the other appears. For example, you're driving along and someone is blocking the road doing a three point turn. That three point turn somehow turns into a 10 point turn and there is no sign it'll end, "Oh puta, deita-te", meaning "come on, let's get it over with"

They were 5 Euro difference for the front tire, so I went with the Maxxis, trying new things and all. All I want is that the front doesn't wash out when on smooth gravel, which sometimes the AC10 does. The best I've had on this bike said "Motocross" on the side with big letters, I think they were Metzeler but might be wrong, it was quite a few years ago.