Pedro

It was a cool ride, but I'd rather have had visibility and no rain Today, woke up a little too hungover, had a proper breakfast to try and wash out all the booze, and got on the road. Was pretty happy to not have rain again, but 5 minutes into it and stopped to put my plastic jacket on. It then drizzled for the next couple of hours, when I stopped for some water and a rest at the Alqueva artificial lake. Sun was now coming out so I put the pesky plastic jacket back on the case. Entering Algarve Made it to Faro a little ago, am getting ready to go and have a dip in the ocean. Bike is filthy from all this rain and dust and the Pirellis have a nice scrub to them, they're useless offroad but that's to be expected really.

When that happens I just sit back and enjoy riding slowly. It happens a lot...

G&T, Covid style, all alone

Plus there’s a twat pulling wheelies up and down the town on a Hornet 600. I don’t condone but it sure stirs shit up...

And anothe successful washing up, cotton tshirt and underwear washed before swimming pool time and fully dry after dinner! I love this place!

I don’t really know the translation but it is either stewed or braised

It’s the face!

FF sake, Pete, now you’re particular as to the part of the animal that’s being cooked? It’s delicious, end of! ? ?

I used to go through the golf club in my mountainbike when was a kid, they didn’t like that. It’s the oldest golf club in continental Europe, it’s got some history, so when I got the XR a few year ago someone might have left them a little roost trail ...

Dinner today was pigg’s cheek with migas. Can’t explain migas except that they’re made out of bread with lots of garlic. It was proper tasty! I had a jar of ehine, then half a jar, then a glass, then another glass! Am now posting this with my phone still not standing up, from a restaurant with no fixed roof except a tile top thing

Thank you! FFS, compliments on some kind of not meat!!

I am the guy amongst my group of friends that was last to get a smart phone. First got a Nokia with email capability, then a better Nokia, then an Iphone, now I can’t cope without an IPhone

Damn right @XTreme , Portugal might be off the list but their filthy deseased tourists aren’t off my list! Never mind knuckledraggers or innits, just means doubletime off my list. Portugal should make me master of tourism greencards, it would improve this shit no end!

Come on @Tym, live brave, even John Wayne had eggs like this

When did you last ride through heavy rain? Never mind seeing it!

Rain at 1900 meters Pete, Galicia has been getting rain over the last few days too. Hotel offered to keep the bike in a covered closed warehouse, because it “might rain”, class act! Hope it doesn’t rain, got laundry drying outside the balcony gipsy style...

WTF @Tym, fried eggs on olive oil, sunny side up, that’s universal. If you don’t like that I got no hope for you (as sunny side up as a spaniard can muster)

What an amazing video.

Didn't feel like taking a lot of pictures today, rode a lot leaving home around 9AM, stopping for a coffee, then stopping for a quick sandwich lunch, then stopping about an hour for an afternoon coffee, and then stopping around 7PM, so a pretty good day. Douro river: Lunch stop, near where the Tua river joins the Douro: Tua river below:, some great roads in this little corner of Portugal, if you like great roads. At Miranda do Douro, taken on the Spanish side, Portugal on the other bank: Plan was to sleep there, and have some of the great local typical steaks for dinner, but it was sort of too early, the place was crowded with spaniards and immigrants, just too many people and I started to get Covid itches, so moved on and rode another couple of hours till where I was going to sleep. Crossed the Douro to Spain and slept 200 meters into Spain. Behind my "house" and on the other side of the river is Penedo Durão, from where Sofia took her great pictures. Cracked open a beer after a shower, and prepared for dinner Dinner was fried calamari (or squid), and a dish of huevos rotos, which means fried potatoes with ham and fried eggs. Post dinner beer, and retired to bed while being mauled by mosquitoes. today, woke up to this: Had breakfast, went to fuel up the bike, which took forever because there were two tractors in front of me, and made it to Penedo Durão by 08:40, it's great when you sleep in spain because you get up at the normal time and gain an hour as soon as you get back to Portugal. It helped that I had no internet yesterday, and went to sleep early. Between this viewpoint and the river is the N221, and the 25km from Freixo de Espada à Cinta heading South are some of the coolest twisties I know. Headed to Serra da Estrela, to go past continental Portugal's highest peak on the way South. Getting close to there stopped to put my plastic rain suit on, just in time for a proper downfall. Tried an alternate route up the hill and discovered a pretty cool but of forest road. Very slippery in the rain, though, the moss growing on the tarmac didn't help. Got wetter and turned to dirt as I went past the tree line: This is at over 1900 meters altitude, there is a great view here, you'll just have to imagine: From then on it wasn't even worth taking the phone out for pictures, too much rain, too much fog and a lot of wind. Went down the other side of the mountain hoping to find better weather only for it to get worse. Visibility was so poor I didn't feel comfortable going more than 50kmh. After most of the mountain, first sign of light: Decided I felt like some warmth so engaged mach 5 and hightailed it to Alentejo via some cool twisties, got to the hotel in time for a nice dip in the swimming pool, with a castle view. Now chilling a little bit, before going to dinner, I'm proper hungry since I didn't have anything since breakfast.

OK guys and girls, here is the thread for submission of pictures for the August edition of Bike Of The Month. Submit until the 26th, on the 26th we'll lock this thread and start primaries, then lock that on the 28th, and have another vote from the 28th till the 31st to decide on the winner. This might seem too complicated, but we're talking about one of motorcycling's great achievements, it's to be expected. Fire away.

I'll be going through that area tomorrow, won't be filming though

I can't get over that shit. Portugal has been complaining that the UK doesn't open traffic for tourists to come here and return freely, arguing that we are better than the UK at the moment, and that they have no reason to protect themselves from us. Well, if the UK is really in a far worse condition than Portugal at the moment then why in the royal fuck would we want hordes of uk tourists coming over? And why is the government openly trying to open borders? Honestly, there is no shame in politics or economics.