My work’s holiday year finishes at the end of March and I had a few days spare and was told to ‘use them or loose them’. I decided to add them to start of the Easter break to give me a decent amount of time off. Having booked the time I realised that I had suffcient time with the bank holidays to do something meaningful with it. I’d been wanting to go back to the town where my wife’s grandfather came from for nearly three years and thought that this would be ideal opportunity so booked the Channel Tunnel and the hotel Adam and I stayed in last time. As the time for departure got nearer I realised that it was very cold for the time of year in England (in fact many places were under several feet of snow!). Checking the weather forecasts and webcams for my destination in Switzerland showed that they were still skiing there; not ideal motorcycling conditions! Continue reading →