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Indeed. Turns out he had 4 cracked ribs, a small laceration on the liver (which was fixed) and a punctured spleen, which was taken out this morning. Now he's on the surgical recovery and shall remain there for a few days. Fuck knows how he managed this shit falling from a stepladder. My plans for August have drastically changed Nice! Plenty of excitement outside, though Also saw an old Buick going to the supermarket, all the way from Sweden!

That seems … fun?

Turns out my dad is a twat. He checked himself out of hospital last time after the fall, before they did an x-ray on him because he was tired of waiting. Fair enough, he had been there for 6 or 7 hours, but turns out he has a broken rib with some complication because of how it broke. He had some sort of surgery from yesterday to today, and is doing ok, that’s all I know because the hospital is on lockdown because of covid. Mum will visit today and talk to a doctor from doctor to doctor. She’s in a state, so I’ve been shopping for groceries in the morning, light lunch, etc I can see this going for a few days, and my bike is 300 miles away.

And calling themselves babes as well

Babes like fuel additive to make stuff run clean?

Look who’s talking! Runs great, though, and it’s not the high speed one. The high speed one didn’t stop on my town for a couple of hours more and I was in a rush. This is the high speed one, it could cruise at well over 200kmh but is limited by the tracks, that and for some reason trains can’t overtake other trains? Previous governments planned on bringing the TGV here, what a waste of money that would have been, building new tracks across the country to gain 20 minutes on a 300km trip. Someone lost big when that plan was aborted, and it wasn’t the taxpayer.

Didn’t remember to take train pictures for you @XTreme Here’s what it looks like

My british friend, fellow passenger having a snooze

Nice vein work, hope he makes it.

@Clive, costing me 55€ to do a one way trip that would have been 500km in a motoway, in first class, which isn’t really first class. Taking way longer, and a half hour stop to change trains in Lisbon, but I don’t think I can really complain about the price. I don’t get the thing about trains, but then again some people don’t get the thing about bikes either so there you go. Took care of a british dog while he patiently sat next to me while his human went to the wc, that put a smile on my face. After 5 and half hours wearing a mask, I took to the restaurant wagon for an expresso at sunset as an excuse for a breather

You never seen a train? It’s like several buses put together

We have tiny owls where my home is, the most typical owls there, “Mocho Galego” Two of them go talk to each other on my neighbours balcony at night, drive her insane

Lisbon from a train on a bridge

Oil cooled 4 valve GS, maybe

Weather looks perfect for a ride, had a week of work and the plan was to go on a longish ride tomorrow, ending back home. However, my dad felt worse again this morning, and am now planning to get on a train in an hour to go to the Algarve, and then bring them both back in his car as soon as possible, a couple of bitch slaps might be in the cards to break him out of being stubborn. Portugal's trains are amidst a partial strike though, and I´ll be stopping to change trains in rush hour Lisbon. Oh, the joy!

OK then, I assumed the current town grew around the old one, like it happens here.

I can understand that, but aren´t those pictures from inside a town?

I am surprised there's no pavement of any sort on the street, in the modern pictures.

I loved the cliffhanger pause, way to go!

Welcome @zzzak

I don’t know how Ducati makes that, that seat and rear end are hideous

It’s a baby V2 version of their bigger V4 that powers the mille sportsbikes, probably bombproof, although probably not many long mileage ones around

I like it how you say we should keep the fire low and then throw another pint of gasoline into it

Isn´t he married to a local? In some countries, the parents of a national are entitled to more than foreigners, is his boy Polish?

Looks nice, Aprilia trailies have always looked nicer than most of their competitors.