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| Motorcycling around South America... and beyond! |
| The walls of Kuelap - Peru (July 2007) |
In 2004 we went on holiday to Peru. In a hotel lobby in Puno,on the edge of the lake Titicaca, we saw a motorbike.
The number plate was British. Someone travelling by bike around South America!
We never met the biker. By the time we came back from visiting the floating Islands, the bike was gone. I never
completely forgot that bike, I was already thinking of the possibility of doing a long overland motorcycle trip around
South America. I was not the only one having crazy ideas then... It kept me thinking.
I had been talking for many years about taking a year off travelling. It did not took too much work to convince Alistair!
One day, coming back from work, I said casually to him, while he was busy reading the sport pages of the Evening
Standard: "What about taking the bikes with us to South America?" I expected he would tell me I was mad, and I had
prepared a long list of reasons for why we should take the bikes. I needed not to worry. His reply was only "Yeah,
why not..." before plunging back to the footy pages! (Note to myself: always propose crazy ideas to other half when
he's reading good news from the Footy pages of the paper!)
So that was it.
What else to say. I am French, from Spanish parents (handly for South America!) and Alistair is Anglais.
Hence the website name.
We met in 1995, in Paris. Alistair was sent to Paris by his company, for a couple of months. I had finished university
and doing temp jobs, unable to get a permanent job. Alistair decided to transfer to Paris.
In 1997 we moved to the UK, hoping for better job opportunities for me in London... we never looked back.
The number plate was British. Someone travelling by bike around South America!
We never met the biker. By the time we came back from visiting the floating Islands, the bike was gone. I never
completely forgot that bike, I was already thinking of the possibility of doing a long overland motorcycle trip around
South America. I was not the only one having crazy ideas then... It kept me thinking.
I had been talking for many years about taking a year off travelling. It did not took too much work to convince Alistair!
One day, coming back from work, I said casually to him, while he was busy reading the sport pages of the Evening
Standard: "What about taking the bikes with us to South America?" I expected he would tell me I was mad, and I had
prepared a long list of reasons for why we should take the bikes. I needed not to worry. His reply was only "Yeah,
why not..." before plunging back to the footy pages! (Note to myself: always propose crazy ideas to other half when
he's reading good news from the Footy pages of the paper!)
So that was it.
What else to say. I am French, from Spanish parents (handly for South America!) and Alistair is Anglais.
Hence the website name.
We met in 1995, in Paris. Alistair was sent to Paris by his company, for a couple of months. I had finished university
and doing temp jobs, unable to get a permanent job. Alistair decided to transfer to Paris.
In 1997 we moved to the UK, hoping for better job opportunities for me in London... we never looked back.
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