InvictaMoto's Devall Boys!

Tickets booked for me and Neill this evening. Earlier the website at Sagepay couldn't cope. Didn't expect to get in leaving it so late. Two tickets booked departing Northampton Services on the M1. Same cheap motel booked as last year at Newport Pagnell. Has a bar and food. That'll do...

Could 2021 see the Devall Boys riding together again?  Last year I planned a short trip across to Germany to visit the Dams and some of the memorials and it had to be cancelled as Covid-19 spread across the globe and we were still in a partial lockdown. By August 2021 both Neill and I will have had both our vaccinations and if there's a Covid passport we will be line to get our hands on one! Whether Germany will be ready for visitors is anyone's guess.   Neill has plotted a route taking in the dams that were bombed by 617 "Dambusters" Squadron in "Operation Chastise" on 17 May 1943. More information on the raid here -  http://www.dambusters.org.uk/the-dam-raids/dams-of-the-ruhr-valley/  and  https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-incredible-story-of-the-dambusters-raid He has included many of the monuments to those aircrew that were shot down during the Operation. So far it looks like this: 4 - Mohne Dam 5 - Sorpa Dam 6 - Eder Dam The next step is to work out wh

Neill has so much planned well in advance for his long trips with his friend from Ireland, Partick Ahern, that any future Devall Boys trips look to be few and far between. With Covid pretty much destroying life as we knew it and the repercussions hanging on for possibly years to come it looks as though we have reached the end of the line.