200 miles from home to hotel, in torrential rain on a motorbike, I was more than ready for a pint after parking up at our accommodation in Westport, County Mayo. For a small seaside town it has an impressive selection of Irish draught and bottled microbrewery beers in pubs as well as a superb offering…… Continue reading Go West
They said I was mad. Well that’s not really true, though Mrs W did look at me weirdly in the dark when I proposed the idea at 1am one February night. That idea being motorbiking to all of Northern Ireland’s physical micro/nano brewery sites in a short designated period (later to be decided at 36…… Continue reading I Would Ride 500 Miles But I Won’t Ride 500 More
Last summer I embarked on a wee tour around Ireland with some fellow biker friends. We do a tour every year and on previous occasions have visited the Isle of Skye, Inverness, the Lake District, Wales and Cornwall. However we’ve never done Ireland and I’m ashamed to say that I had never been as far…… Continue reading Beers and Bikes over the Border
I love motorbikes. I love the feel of donning my leathers, pulling on my lid (that’s a helmet to the unconverted), and riding to wherever I feel at that moment in time. But what I love most is riding out with friends on a week long tour. And at the end of each day when…… Continue reading Wales, Beer and Bikes
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