Sir Fallsalot

Did it drive out of there or was it towed

That's odd Bob my phone is set to High Efficiency and all the photos are JPEG

An old friend of mine used to have a mini and when his missus was driving he used to annoy her by pulling the handbrake up for some reason and then he got brand new Skoda Favorit and done the same handbrake thing, except the handbrake worked as it should in the Skoda the back wheels locked and his missus lost control of the car and spun into the crash barrier, they ended up in hospital luckily no one else was involved and they just had some minor cuts and bruises he never done that again

You have nothing to apologise for you just wrote what your honest experience was. I think there is some lost in translation moments here that are being taken to heart and their not intended that way, or i might be talking total bollocks as usual

They try it on all the time had to change companies with the Beta this year saved myself over £50. We had the same with AA recovery, every year they kept increasing their renewal price and every year the wife kept knocking them back down until 2 years ago they dug their heels in so we told them to shove it. Their renewal cost was around £180 up from the £120 we were paying, so this year we are back with them for £59 same cover as two years ago, for some reason they rip off their loyal customers who haven't made a single call to them but dangle a carrot for new customers

Forecast here doesn't look good enough for any outdoor work, the roads are dry at the moment though.

Just looked at my phone and it needs an update i may retract that comment once it's done

I'm not sure what you are doing Bob i just plug my phone into my PC and download what photos i want to a file and use them from there. Just had a look and their all JPEG files

I think your reading too much into it Pedro it just reads as normal forum banter to me People are just offering explanations for the experiences you had unfortunately it's human nature to dwell on the bad things rather than the good things you experienced but i see nothing malicious about it, hope you can see it for what it is and leave the post here for everyone to enjoy.

Sorry if anything i said upset you wasn't aimed at you just an alternative view of Pete's and his insatiable appetite to discredit the UK at every opportunity, your report is excellent and i read it exactly as you you said as a foreign travellers views and experiences in our country, i'm sure i would report the same way if i were traveling a foreign land as well as i am comfortable with what i know and i don't like different not saying you are the same though. As for the bird at port security sounds like she was the only one taking her job seriously and her inconsistency and everyone else's couldn't give a toss attitude made you feel victimised if everyone was searched i feel you would have felt better about it yourself.

Me and the wife had a combined policy on the cars for years until last year, the insurance company told us it would be cheaper to separate them out i think it was because mine is an import

Yes that's the one good thing I've found about getting old. But something else i have noticed is i'm paying the same for insurance on cars and bikes as i was when i was in my 20's back then it was extortionate not so much now

That's the cost of owning a missile, you need a nice CB500x you do

It all went tits up for me when too many rules started getting introduced, i agree you have to have the basic rules like it must be your bike, ridden that month and taken in landscape all common sense stuff that's all that was needed. For me it was a bit of fun and if somebody Mawlslyed it up a bit who cares the voters would either like it or not and the voting would reflect that. i hope @Pedro sticks it out way to go Pedro

@Pedro Let me offer a different view on this other than Pete's brit bashing comments again, seems to be the highlight of his life bashing his homeland and for some reason awakens the patriot in me i never knew i had Cod fish going up in price has fuck all to do with "taking back control" but everything to do with the war in Ukraine. Russia supplies about 40% of the whitefish that comes into the UK and the government has put a tariff on that, forcing the UK to go elsewhere and driving prices up. and it's more like a 50% increase not 70% also buying fish and chips in a restaurant has always been expensive you can buy what you had in a good fish and chip shop for under £10 and i'm willing to bet it would taste better. Not seeing young couples around is not unusual here as the weekends were reserved for the lads/girls night out sort of thing, even when me and the wife were courting we would go our separate ways on the weekends she would be out with her friends and i would be out with mine and we would meet up at the end of the night sound like not much has changed lol The cost of living in the UK is high i agree but the average wage here is something like 50% higher than Spain or Portugal so it's all relative. I've never understood the fascination of coffee £2.50 is cheap for shit coffee or good coffee it's like a fashion thing here good job i don't like it. As for the Poo if it was human Poo you must have been the unluckiest person in the UK at that time to have found some in the street to step in, only once i can remember having to watch out for human Poo and that was when i was working a night shift in a bank in Newport the underground car park was inhabited by some homeless Junkies and they were shitting everywhere but i seen the same type of homeless junkies hiding away when we stopped in one of the town ports on our cruse to Norway so i assume every country in the world has them Cant explain the search at the ferry port probably looked a bit shifty LOL but i have been searched a few times at air ports so your not alone, unfortunate about the Leatherman but fixed blade knives are banned in the UK for good reason and i've seen a few posts on bike forums in the past warning people not to travel with them or remove the blade if they can for the trip

@Pedro i like the way you are excited to see the horses roaming freely, its quite common near me so i don't take it in as you did and just ride by but i do remember being like that the first time i saw them

Not sure what i'll be doing yet, a phone call tomorrow will determine my day

Many years ago i was riding my dirtbike down a back lane where i lived and a bit of mud flew up off the front tyre and landed on my nose as it has done many times before except this time when i wiped it across my face with my gloved hand it soon became apparent it was dog shit i had to get new gloves and a helmet after that one. When it comes to dog shit i have a very weak stomach

No, why would i flounce when i know that staying here will annoy the fuck out of everyone

Thanks but i haven't taken any photos of the bike when i was out this month which is unusual for me

You don't read anything do you he had that for breakfast

I have to agree with @Slowlycatchymonkey i know not of the extreme control you speak of, i do what i want when i want for example i past the Baffle Haus you visited today in my works van doing over 80 mph if anything it's more out of control here with CCTV footage to prove it

Without tasting what you have there i can't make a direct comparison hence the "They do a version of it in the supermarkets here" comment

They do a version of it in the supermarkets here and i do have it in work sometimes for dinner, it's a bit alien to me but i don't dislike it.

So do you prefer your bacon cooked or raw now LOL