There is a new member of the XploraLora family. Her name is Elizabeth, although Liza Nova will probably appear from time to time as well. π She’s a Benda Napoleon Bob 500, she’s very different from anything I’ve owned for a long time, and buying her wasn’t quite as straightforward a decision as simply deciding […]
If you’ve arrived here after watching one of my videos of Lora, my ZX-9R, disappearing along a road through the Scottish countryside, you could quite reasonably assume XploraLora is a motorcycle channel.Β It isn’t really. There are certainly going to be plenty of motorcycles involved, because I love them and Lora π is a very important […]
I went out for what was supposed to be a nice, short, relaxing Saturday afternoon ride. I was still a wee bit worn out from the 40-mile Dungeon Hills adventure, so there would be no enormous distances, no ridiculous expedition and definitely no knackering myself out again.Β That was the plan anyway.
There is a particular view in Galloway I’ve been trying to get closer to for about three years. I’ve seen it plenty of times from a distance, but I’d never managed to find somewhere that gave me the view I actually wanted. Then, while looking at the map, I noticed a little forest trail that […]
The week before this I’d climbed a wee hill and managed better than I’d expected, which inevitably led to another question: could I still climb a proper mountain? There was a time when an eight-mile mountain walk wouldn’t have concerned me particularly much, but things had changed and I genuinely wasn’t sure what I was […]
I used to really love climbing mountains. It was one of those things I could disappear off and do without thinking too much about it, but after everything that happened and being unwell, I honestly didn’t know whether I could still do it anymore. I wanted it back in my life, but wanting something and […]
There are days when you head out because you’ve planned an adventure, somewhere you’ve wanted to explore or a route you’ve been staring at on a map for weeks. Then there are days when you’ve simply had enough of work and life and need to get away from everything for a while. This was definitely […]

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