Woodturning and Other Matters

 Day Two 14th april climate change from yesterday, just packing the bike and i feel i am overdressed and need a shower before setting off , yesterdays layers may now seem like overkill and need stowing away .... a hotel lobby sofa provides a moment of respite before the drive down to barcelona, what i miss of course with van travel is the permanent access to a comfortable place to snooze and of course make tea! there was an option to travel with van and e bike, definitely an option  the idea for sardinia was that i avoid motorways and can just take short drives and be more local, the ferries doing the bulk of the travelling...in essence 20 hours of ferries from Barcelona to Naples....the drive would have been 1500km , ok for some bikers three days but not this old dog and god knows what cost in petrol, motorway etc..... tricky to juggle the idea to "reserve" in advance, air bnb,  or let luck decide where i end up in sardinia... juggle the need to know versus the desire for th

motorcylce touring , definitely and art, how much to pack and how.... heading for barcelona to ferry to sardinia and on to naples to do a dayskipper sailing training set off, cloudy, cold, spitting drops, into the pvc one piece a friend has lent me, condom suit, i can hardly move but at least am dry, and by the time i pass mirepoix to hot and starting to sweat.... by foix i had to go to decathlon and buy a merino thermal and fleece waiscoat....took autoroute to get to spain down to figueras from france is like moving to some bleak transit zone, endless trucks, abandoed industrail buildings, cracked pavements, the first hotel i stop at is semi derelict with attempts as the optomistic....i drive on and end up on somewhere clean and friendly if a bit outside my budget, i need sleep slept, breakfast with to many choices and that strange conspiratorial ambience of hotel dining rooms where each forms his her own bubble, the unlikely crossing point of the wayward...a sort of libra