What's this then?

Welcome to the Grumbly B'stard tour pages.

Later this year two dashing, handsome and intrepid adventurers - specifically "The Grumbler" (me) and his neighbour, "Bob the Bastard" (I coined this nickname because he has more toys than I do - a fact that will become apparent in these meanderings) intend to tour this Septic Island by motorcycle, taking in its northern and southern extremities in the process.

We'll use this blog to document the planning and the trip itself, so that people with nothing better to do can see for themselves how much of a mess two allegedly intelligent geezers can make of a simple road trip.

Apart from that, of course, it'll be a place where we can

• talk about our bikes (BtB isn't sure which of his he'll use yet - see what I mean about the nickname?)
• rabbit on about places we hope to visit
• brag about the ridiculous quantity of kit that this trip has given us the excuse to squander hard earned shekels on
  
• post pictures of the trip, both being keen photographers
• and do anything else we want.

Its been pointed out to me (thanks Martin and Neil) that some 'blogs' have gone on to make their writers (or in our case I'm tempted to say perpetrators) money. However, we arent Ewan and Charlie or Belle de Jour - although we have a lot in common with these characters (one of us has a BMW GS Adventure, and the other claims - while refusing to provide documented proof - to have had sex in a hotel once).

But hopefully there'll be some interesting bits in the blog eventually!

Meantime, perhaps you'd like to see the first attempt at our route? This is the result of a couple of hours of playing with Microsoft Autoroute. It should only have been one hour, but since its a product of the evil empire, our first route was lost to the ether when the machine crashed...