IPA visitors from Holland and Belguim

Lovely day on Sunday so the drive to Newcastle with the IPA Scottish Motorcycle touring Group, was quite pleasant apart from the delays caused by horse boxes and trailers on the roads through the Scottish Borders.   At one stage I was positive that some folks were even taking empty horseboxes out for a run just to frustrate other drivers.

We were heading for Gosforth where we stayed overnight, and this morning met up with twenty two members of the Dutch IPA who are over for several days and basing themselves at Fort William.

 

With the two groups together there were twenty three bikes and some thirty bodies who set off from the ferry terminal at North Shields, headed west along Hadrian's Wall to Carlisle, then north to Glasgow for lunch with the local IPA section members there, before heading on to Fort William.  

Due to other commitments I took the easy option and headed up the east coast on the A1, so a couple of hours later was safe and sound at the Mercat Grill for cuppa before going home.