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Today I shall wash my bike in the afternoon when there is shade outside of the garage, and then take it for a short drying spin around the neighborhood.

Such a clean LC....

Went to an auto jumble today. Almost on the doorstep in Norwich. Lots of stalls, cars and bikes. So many stalls, we took so long to get round, many of the cars n bikes had gone.

YZR 500...

I had to read that a few times

I don't really do holidays, living the dream in Cornwall already. I do have 3 weeks leave in August for Fowey Regatta. If the weather something like it I might venture up to Wales for a couple of days but apart from that nothing much.

Left the house past 11:30 in the morning, after waking up not too early and doing some work. It looked like a quiet work day ahead so headed out to take advantage of the warm weather before the hot season arrives and before the weekend. This weekend the final match decides the winner of the Portuguese league on saturday, and on sunday we have national elections. I can't tell if the roads will be empty, or full with people that think they'll be empty... As a destination I headed to Serra de Montemuro, a delightful area near the Douro river, it feels like a hidden paradise away from the most well known roads that get full of traffic after so much publicity on magazines and youtube. After an hour or so riding along the Douro I get onto the hills and an hour and a half after leaving home I take a detour to explore some service roads for wind farms. Suddenly it's way higher and temperatures drop by almost 10º compared to the Douro valley. The N321, it's one of those roads you can tell are nice just by looking on the map. I usually don't have proper lunch on rides, much prefer a sandwich or something like that, but today I wanted to check out a small rustic countryside restaurant where a big group is going to stop in a few days, on one of @Sofia's club rideouts. It's run by two very characterful ladies, and they serve old school dishes, this region is terribly cold in the winter and very driven to subsistence farming and cattle, so their food reflects that. It's a very local typical dish, I can't explain what the meat is except it's a smoked salted pork. It's more of a winter thing, though. After lunch, started heading back via the long way but quickly stopped for a few pictures by a very old chapel with a great view. At 1140 meters altitude, it has great views over the Serra de Montemuro with a wink of the Douro river in the distance. Felgueiras, a small village. I was pleasantly surprised to see a lot of life and activity around these villages today. Pretty skies when heading back. This next one I just took to save the location on the map and know which road it is, it's a nice way to cross this area. Old abandoned water mill being reclaimed by nature. That lovely road from before turned into a bumpy mess with a few kms of cobblestones, I better remember if I ever take Sofia through here because it's not very Speed Triple friendly. Pretty villages, though. less than two hours later and I was home, it was a nice 5 or 6 hours out.

That is pretty much the kind of shoe style I expect @Saul to wear.

Early to bed for me tonight , big day tomorrow

The Hurricane at RedBud back in '76...

Painted Dragon - Stellagama stellio in Corfu town

Is you are going from HDD to SSD you are in for a pleasant surprise Also was going to say I regularly use my 2009 Macbook Pro at home. Still perfectly usable for most tasks. I like it cause it has loads of connectivity , a DVD drive, plenty enough capability for my music projects and a really nice screen. I have added more RAM, new battery and SSD but that is all its had in 16 years.

This iMac is now 8 years old and been bullet proof so I don't mind spending a bit on it. Now it's has a reinstall it's as snappy as the day I got it. SSD and more Ram is on the cards.

So I goes into the pet shop , says to the young Doris, I’ve got this burning sensation in my lower jaw, it’s very hot to the touch … She’s says with all due respect sir you should have gone to specsavers next door , this is a pet shop not a Surgery!!! I said I know that miss, but my mate told me that you sold Chinchillas

They do not offer them, sis in law and my wife are both on diets, so that means I am too.

Eat all their biscuits out of spite Clive ......

Off to the inlaws today, to wish them Bon Voyage (they go on Tuesday) for their 3 weeks in Tenerife..........................Bastids

he is a dopey twat

I have a MacBook Air and it doesn’t have a hard drive, the memory is all solid state and on board.

You def got some beautiful areas over there.

I did look into it a couple of years ago as I was offered some ram and plenty of vids available but that's as far as I got.

Bloody lovely

Nice report @Pedro....some beautiful sky in those pics.

No, I would have for a winter dinner though. It was enough for two two people over lunch, Northern Portugal servings Indeed, hardly any traffic on the small roads

'57 Vette Gasser....

Cool old KTM enduro...

Another tidy Zed from Bull Dock in Japan...

'61 BubbleTop Impala....

It's been glorious here again today , unfortunately I haven't had the chance to enjoy it as I have the lurgy. I really hope I'm ok by Sunday .......