InvictaMoto's Devall Boys!

Could the short tour to the Dams and the crash site memorials be back on in 2021? With travel restrictions being relaxed for the double or even triple vaccinated it may be easier to go over. I only have a week off holiday before the end of the year. By then the fuel crisis might be over..... At least in Europe they have loads of it.   I'd have to check with Claire that I  can go.... 

Since we started to look into this a week or so ago, Neill has done some more work on the routes and the overnight stops.   Hence to maps have changed a bit. He is very thorough and he tries to factor in where there are fuel stops as well.   I tend not to be as "in depth" when I plan and stop for fuel as and when I look at the trip and see that I need it in the next 30 or so miles!   The added places are different sites where the crews are commemorated/buried after being shot down during the raid. So here are the current mapped routes: Overall Route - The dams are waypoints 5,6 & 7. Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 I have downloaded all of them and have posted them to my TomTom. Ready for the off.   Of course, all the planning in the world goes up shit creek if we can't travel to the EU in early August  unless they get Covid under control. Both Neill and  have already had our second vaccinations and by then we will be pretty much ready to tra...

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 w...

I was up early and shuffled the cars about to get the Rocket out of the garage.  I had fitted the Saddlemen sissy-bar bag the night before and it was just a matter of popping my sponge bag in one of the pockets. A quick top up of petrol in Hythe and I was at the Shuttle terminal in time to meet Neill who was already there. After picking up the Czech cash from Travelex we were off. Almost a miracle in that the train was almost on time leaving. The ride to the first overnight near Frankfurt would be a mile crunching motorway trip. Neill had planned the route pretty extensively including petrol stops. Off motorway where possible where they are cheaper.  We finally arrived at the hotel about 1730 and checked in. The NH Frankfurt Airport West as it says is near the airport and also pretty much next to a railway line. Incredibly, the hotel was pretty soundproofed. Once we changed we needed to get out for something to eat and a beer or two. The hotel ...