This is my usual writeup of the major events that happened this year. And what a year it was! After four meagre years, long distance rallying had a high tide again. In total, 25 rallying days in the saddle. That’s….quite a lot. Approximately 500 hours of riding pleasure under competitive conditions. The highest number ever which will not be reached again. Let’s see what happens if I use this new “AI button” and ask it to write a summary of this post:
Summary of Motorcycle Year 2023
The year 2023 was an eventful one for the rider, encompassing long-distance rallies and memorable journeys. It commenced with a European ride to the Olympic Stadium and included a switch to a new bike due to unforeseen circumstances. A significant highlight was the Iron Butt Rally, where the rider demonstrated competitive prowess and resilience, earning a Gold Medal finish and securing the title of best European rider. This victory was followed by the 12 Days European Rally, marked by strategic riding and scenic adventures. Additionally, the rider triumphed in the Brit Butt Rally, reclaiming the winning position after facing previous setbacks. Culinary experiences during the rallies added a unique flavor to the year. The post reflects on the impressive achievements, acknowledges room for further growth, and hints at a promising future in motorbiking adventures. With a diverse array of rallies and ride events, the year truly encapsulated the spirit of long-distance motorcycle riding.
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Hmmmm, pretty good, albeit not perfect. Maybe I should stop blogging and leave this to A.I.? No, I am still here to stay. Let’s start.
Preparations in spring
The year started off easy with an European ride to eat to the Olympic stadium in Amsterdam in February, meeting again many of the weirdos in this sport. A short trip from the Belgian lowlands, just the right distance for a quick winter ride. In March I realized that my once refurbished rear shock of the BMW was leaking which caused a panic attack. As I was an entrant to the Iron Butt Rally 2023, I had only a few weeks until I had to ship the bike to Canada.
This meant that there was no time to fix the bike as the shock had to be removed, sent to the seller (warranty) who would send it to the manufacturer and then the whole thing backwards… This would leave me with no time to test things before the IBR, and probably the deadline could not be met anyway. So a decision had to be taken.
The only logic decision was to get a new bike. Seems unavoidable, doesn’t it? I sold the 65.000 km red K1600GT to my dealer and bought a 7.500 km white K1600GT from him. I had to wait for the registration and the swapping of all the farces from one bike to the other which meant I had to ride to the European Ride to Eat on my old Honda Pan European. My old trusted steed took me to Barcelona and back without any issues. Actually I had a big time on my favorite route at the Costa Brava and around the Montseny. Meeting point was the Olympic stadium of Barcelona, followed by the usual dinner.
Back home I finally could pick up my new bike, just in time to do a test ride to Italy and a Benelux Four Corners Ride that I completed, but I never handed in. In any case, the new K1600 behaved very well and I could ship it to Canada with a optimistic conscience.
But before that, I had to do my first rally this year; the Magic 12 Rally in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Everything went well and I could book my first win this year. After the debacle of the previous year, this was quite satisfying. The bike and the new rugged tablet worked perfectly; All of this above and more can be read in this post.
During a week back home in Bavaria, it was the only time to do a proper ride with an XBR this year: a ride along the Bavarian Alps reminds me how beautiful this area is. Especially in May.
The Iron Butt Rally
And then it was time for “the Big Dance”, aka the Iron Butt Rally. This time, my objective was a different one: as I had achieved a finisher status in 2017 at the second attempt, I planned to do more of a competitive rally this time, although I planned to hold my horses in leg 1 and 2 to get used to the competitive pace of the IBR. I am still preparing a report about this adventure, it will be published at a later stage. For the time being, I give only a short summary of this epic ride.
After some interesting pre-start days in Pittsburgh, we set off on a Monday morning (see 3:38 min) to be 11 days on the road. I played it very safe in leg 1 and did not dare to ride at night through the forests of Vermont. And indeed, the first riders ended up in hospital when they crashed into some deer there. I visited Boston area and New York City by night instead. After a quick visit to Atlantic City and Baltimore, I headed west for the first checkpoint in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I had indeed taken it slow, as I was only on 37th place of 110 riders. For the second leg, I had to ramp up the effort a bit. In order to increase my points, I had to go to L.A. via El Paso and Phoenix. From there, I crossed the Nevada desert and blinding Las Vegas to end up in Utah. The next day, I crossed the Rockies and arrived early in Denver for a tyre change before the arrival at the second checkpoint in Denver. I climbed up 10 places in the ranking to the 27th place with this leg, but the biggest chunk was before me: the third leg with five riding days. In order to improve further, I had to go west to San Francisco, down to San Diego and back to El Paso. From New Mexico to Kentucky I rode 22 hours without any bonus point location. I went to Delaware and up again to NYC before I turned west and rode the last stint to the finish in Pittsburgh. I had done it again! This time, with a “proper” ride with 11.100 miles and without any problems, enjoying many rest breaks. I lost some points due to a missing picture and a malfunctioning SD card, but my final standing was quite good under these circumstances: Gold Medal finisher and best European at 16th place! I knew I could have done better, but this was a kind of apprenticeship in competitive IBR rallying, so I was quite happy with the result.
IBR ceremony 
Arizona 
Gilroy, garlic capital 
San Francisco 
Road closure? – use the flag method! 
Group picture, leg 1 
The trophy 
Arrival at Denver checkpoint, leg 2 
At the start in Pittsburgh 
Before the start 
Find the right corn cob among a hundred! 
Katz’s, New York City 
The first bonus point location visited 
The parking lot at the start 
Final standings. 16th out of 108 starters and 94 finishers 
Total mileage during the 2023 Iron Butt Rally (17196.4 km) 
Philadelphia cheese steak 
After the rally, I returned to Toronto and flew back to Paris. I used July to relax and to prepare the next big thing: the 12 Days European Rally. Nominally even longer than the Iron Butt Rally, it was an event that would lead you through the whole of Europe.
The 12 Days European Rally
One advantage was the location: the start and finish was in Eindhoven, only 25 min away from my place in Belgium. The participation was unfortunately rather low for such an event, many people in Europe felt probably overwhelmed by this task to compete 12 days, interrupted only by one checkpoint in the Alps. Without going into details, I was not happy with the layout of the rally and how the interesting locations were distributed over Europe: Northern Europe, the British Isles and South-Western Europe was basically not worth visiting through the layout of the combination bonuses that were mainly located in Central Europe. Additionally, at least 19 countries needed to be visited which meant that all the smaller states including the Balkans were high on the list.
I figured out that the key was to combine combos for maximum efficiency. In terms of riding style, I applied the same focussed, but rather relaxed approach as in the IBR, leaving room for rather long rest breaks.
As described in the dedicated rally report, at the checkpoint, my mate Stefan organized a fantastic pit stop that included a wheel/tyre and oil change. On the second leg, I visited the whole of Italy, crossed by boat to Albania and worked my way upwards back to the Netherlands, overcoming some critical situations that should not form part of any rally on purpose. As mentioned in the report, I will not speak about these incidents in public. I tried to make the best out of it and maintained my steady pace, having fun on many of the twisting roads such as the Dalmatian coast road in Croatia. Although my execution was not flawless (I rode past a huge combo location in the rain on the first day), I had most points at the finish at won this probably one-time rally by a large margin. In the end I had visited 22 countries in 12 days: The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, Andorra, Monaco, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, San Marino, The Vatican, Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia. The report can be found here.
Climbing up 255 stairs of a former blast furnace in Duisburg. 
Croatian coast in Zadar. 
Group picture in Dobrun, Bosnia. Worth 8000 points if five riders are present. Not. 
Drina River, Bosnia. 
Tara Bridge, Montenegro. 
Iconic Castel del Monte, Puglia. Built for Friedrich II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. 
At the tip of the Italian boot: Calabria. 
Salerno by night. 
I had no time to receive Pope Francis. Never mind. 
Hutzlmandl’s Service Team in action. 
Simmerl and Stefan at the pit stop. 
Getting caught in a hailstorm on a mountain in Switzerland 
Casino in Monaco 
Col de la Bonette, highest pass in Europe, too windy to take a picture standing 
Time for a chat with Eric after a veeery quick ride together 
Peine del viento, San Sebastián 
Soaked at “Land’s End”of Bretagne, France 
12 Days Rally statistics
Something I had not stressed so far this year how I turned the second leg of the 12 Days Rally into a nice example of “how to rally in style”. In contrast to the IBR, I took the time to check in early (as the mandatory rest breaks had to be started before midnight) and to have a good dinner…every night. Let me use this opportunity to put a bit of gastronomic touch to this blog 😇.
The Brit Butt Rally
Only two weeks later, I set off for the last rally this year: The Brit Butt Rally. After my golden period between 2015 – 2018 with four consecutive wins, I faced a series of setbacks in 2019 (DNF, leaking tyre and leaking oil sump), in 2021 (hiccups due to electronic scoring and total road closure of the M4, 6th place), and in 2022 (choosing the wrong route due to a tiny planning error, 3rd place). So I was happy to perform perfectly on a challenging route through the Midlands, Wales, Devon, London, East Anglia and back to Coventry. I had some issues with my malfunctioning auxiliary lights, but the new BMW performed perfectly like the whole year, a truly perfect rally bike as long as gravel roads can be avoided. So I received my fifth winning trophy, properly challenged by 2nd and 3rd places Arjen Steiner and Scott Lloyd who will be tough competitors in the future to be reckoned with.
Epilogue
As this year was composed mainly of rallies and Ride to Eats, I concluded the year with a business trip to Munich and the Lago Maggiore and a later Ride to Eat in Paris where we met in front of the Eiffel Tower and had dinner afterwards.
In total, I rode about 48.000 km on the BMWs, 3.000 km on the old ST1100 and 200-300 km on XBRs. A totally different year from 2022….and probably from 2024 as well, as I plan to use again more the old XBR500 with 402.000 km on the clock next year. The new BMW K1600GT behaved very convincingly and I hope it will continue like this.
After all these successes, there is of course a kind of void. Three wins and a gold medal finish in the IBR, how much better can it get? There will probably be no other European rally over 12 days, I have already won every major LD rally in Europe, so the remaining challenge could only be to perform better in the Iron Butt Rally. The 16th place was very good, but I know that there is still room for improvement, especially now that I know how to compete in the IBR. With more efficiency and longer riding days, I guess a potential finish in the high single digit places could be possible if everything works out perfectly. Anything better than this is basically impossible for an European rider IMHO, after all, rallying in America is fundamentally different from Europe. But when I will do another IBR, who knows…
So next year will be a “small” motorbiking year again, but I already have some ideas to make it interesting…stay tuned!😉
After a series of good rally results it was time for a closing event of the 2023 rallying year: the Brit Butt Rally, a 35 hour rally through Britain. I had have participated in every BBR since 2011 and won it between 2015 and 2018, coming second twice and third once. In the year after 2018, I had a series of mishaps and errors that had annoyed me. I like riding through the British countryside, so it was time to travel to the rally HQ in Coventry. However, I wanted to avoid stupid errors this time to get this monkey off my back.
The rally’s topic was “chart music”, the rally book was simple and I finished my planning at 11 pm, having time for a beer before hitting the sack. A luxury.
My plan included the Welsh coastline, Dorset, London, East Anglia and Northumberland; actually I was ahead of my ambitious plan which allowed me to include two extra points that were crucial in the end. I had no issues except some dying auxiliary lights. Traffic, as usual, got painful in the afternoons. But I stayed in the flow and had a nice ride. The BMW behaved perfectly, as ever. I arrived 30 min too early as I ran out of locations.
After the dinner, the ceremony revealed the ranking: I was called to the podium with Scott and Arjen. I had no lost any points this time and even Arjen’s strong route and execution could not prevent me from winning the BBR for the fifth time! Nice! A long evening with a lot of chatting and pints ended this good weekend.
So the 12 Days Rally is done and dusted and in the rally books. 12 days of riding through 22 countries of about 13.000 kilometers. Visiting 123 bonus point locations. Numerous twisted roads and a spectacularly performing K1600GT that never missed a beat. I avoided most of the bad weather that haunted the continent and devastated Slovenia and parts of Austria, riding in sunshine in moderate temperatures for most of the time. There could be lots of tales to tell and I will decide later if I’ll do that. However, I have made a vow to myself to not comment on details of the rally and how it was organized. A gentleman never tells.
Some of the places were great locations though. I had managed to carve out a plan that combined most of the high combos and made only two small errors (one wrong picture and one transcription error that cost me two combos). But all in all the plan was a good one and very well executed.
A big thank you goes to Stefan and Simmerl had formed the “Hutzlmandl Service Team” and changed my rear wheel/tyre and did an oil change at the checkpoint at the Passo Tonale on day 5. I had no technical or physical issues (thanks to my fitness trainer Thomas) and kept the quick pace I showed during the Iron Butt Rally, even keeping the long, generous rest breaks.
My plan to travel super light with only one top case and a small bag worked out quite fine. A thanks also to the organizers for putting together this event and to IBA Benelux President Michiel for hosting a cozy start and finish event.
Here is a selection of some of the 123 locations I visited and some additional pictures I took:
Climbing up 255 stairs of a former blast furnace in Duisburg. Croatian coast in Zadar. Group picture in Dobrun, Bosnia. Worth 8000 points if five riders are present. Not. Drina River, Bosnia. Tara Bridge, Montenegro. Salerno by night. At the tip of the Italian boot: Calabria. Iconic Castel del Monte, Puglia. Built for Friedrich II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Pope Francis had no time to receive me, they said. Never mind. Hutzlmandl’s Service Team in action. Simmerl and Stefan at the pit stop. Getting caught in a hailstorm on a mountain in Switzerland Casino in Monaco Col de la Bonette, highest pass in Europe, too windy to take a picture standing Time for a chat with Eric after a veeery quick ride together Peine del viento, San Sebastián Soaked at “Land’s End”of Bretagne, France
In a few minutes I will be heading to the rally hotel of the 12 Days Rally. It’s not a big trip yet, as it is only 25 min away, situated in Eindhoven 😊. The bike is ready. Actually, it is exactly in the same state when I returned from the Iron Butt Rally some weeks ago, only that it received a thorough service at the BMW dealer. The had proven to be optimized and in good shape – no reason to change anything (“if your system is working, don’t fix it”). There is one difference though – I will ride without the panniers, only with the topcase and a small bag for warm/rain gear. I used the experience from the IBR to leave everything at home that I didn’t (really) need in America.
It will be a rally of a lifetime – with 12 days, it will be the longest LD rally in the world – one day more than the Iron Butt Rally. It will also be harder than the IBR – speeds are much lower than in the US, there will be much more, secondary, twisted roads and there will be border crossings outside the Schengen area. There will only be three IBR finishers among the riders, but even for them, it will be a new experience, as the physical and mental challenge will be higher here in Europe. I did some maths and I concluded that I just should continue the relaxed riding style of the Iron Butt Rally, I am still well trained in that respect.
I will ride to the rally hotel, do the Odo ride and the registration, check into the hotel and at 5:30 p.m. we will gather for the riders meeting…
16th place out of 96 finishers. Very good.
Robert is safely back at the finish control and he’ll be a finisher for sure, with just the “colour” of his finish now to be decided.
I’m sorry that this years commentary has not perhaps been as entertaining as in 2013 or 2017, but as you’ve seen, by IBR standards, it’s been a fairly mundane ride for Robert.
However, I will say this, it has got me thinking about 2025 ……
10 a.m. EST, the Iron Butt Rally is over and the social media ban has been lifted. I arrived well with more than three hours to spare. I lost some point at the scoring table, but this was due to a corrupt SD memory card and a disappeared picture. Could be worse.
It was a great rally and I will write about it shortly. I had no issues, rider and the steed arrived well. More later, because I urgently need some sleep now, I have ridden through the night. In the evening, the ceremony will take plan in the evening.
He’s in Somerset …..
Ah, no, it’s Somerset PA, USA
Humour intended for British readers only …..
Just 70 miles to go. By the time I get back home in a couple of hours, he’ll be there and tucked up in bed no doubt …..
What he will have though is the “Post IBR Blues”
This is what I wrote about how I felt at the end of the 2011 IBR :
Dismounting and taking off my helmet and jacket, I was immediately presented with
an ice cold beer and I sat down on the floor talking with various folk as they offered
their congratulations. Jeremy who had arrived half hour or so earlier, came over and
we talked for a while. It was during those few words that we exchanged that so many
stories that I’d read from people who had completed an IBR suddenly made sense.
Most ride reports of IBR finishers end with the words (or variations thereof) “you
can’t really truly explain what it feels like when you cross the finishing line of an
IBR”. Up to this moment, I’d thought “What a load of bollocks !!” ☺ How can you
not be able to put into words how you feel ?
But it’s true – you cannot describe the feeling. It’s a strange mixture of elation for
having done it, depression for it having finished, exhaustion for what you’ve been
though and in my case happiness for seeing Sonia again. In short, it’s something that
I’ve just never experienced before.
Robert already knows how this feels and he is about to experience it again ….
He’s just 200 miles from the finish now with about 8 hours in hand.
He could virtually push the bike home from there !!!!
….. and I know it’s day 10 of an eleven day rally, but I have finally managed to catch up and are now posting “as it happens” ….. Lol !!
Well, he’s just finished his Day 10 ride and he’s in Charleston.
He’s just about to take his 8 hour break and when he wakes for day 11, he will have 26 hours to ride 1200 miles, pretty straightforward stuff really. The only potential hiccup is that his last “loop” takes him back in New York for a few hours, but barring a total calamity, he has so much time on his hands, it’s almost impossible to imagine that this could could wrong now.
Day 10 was another totally forgettable days ride primarily along Interstates. Robert is fine, the bike is fine, the traffic is freely moving and from what I can see, the only really notable this that happened was that not long before he stopped for the night, he rode past a town called “HURRICANE”
He has even commented to me today, just how “relaxed” this entire rally has been – and that must present a problem for the organisers, in that if someone from overseas can come to the IBR (admittedly a very good rider on perhaps the most suitable type of bike you could use) and have a relaxed IBR, then that cannot be good. It’s a dilemma though across the world for IBA rallies where organisers have to balance the “challenge” of an IBA rally against the requirements of an ever increasing safety conscious world that we live in.
I’m glad it’s not my problem ….
When the highlight of the past 2 days was taking pictures of the worlds largest Pistachio nut and the worlds largest Chilli (and they weren’t even bonuses), you know that it’s been boring ….
And that’s been the story of day eight and nine, Robert just heading east towards the finish. He has plenty of time in hand even though he knows that he will lose a few hours doing one last loop before arriving at the finish control (exactly where he started from). He also knows that barring a disaster, he has enough points to be a finisher already
He’s managed to dodge the bad thunderstorms that have been been moving across the central belt of the USA from west to east but didn’t manage to dodge the truck fire that temporarily halted progress along I-40.
But these last two days have been indicative of what happens, I guess, when you are an extremely competent rider, using an extremely competent motorcycle and you ride well within your limits on an IBR – it just turns into a long ride.
Roberts 2013 IBR and 2017 IBR when he used extremely unsuitable motorcycles, were full of adventures, full of many highs but also many lows and also full of many comedic moments for a “commentator” like myself to seize upon. This time, a large chilli and an equally large nut are about all this is to laugh at !!
As enjoyable as the 9 day ride will have been, it has been devoid of excitement – rather like my reporting – and indeed the lack of comment from the readers of Roberts (my) blog this time seem to reflect the mundaneness of the ride.
Now, I’m really hoping that I haven’t now jinxed Robert for day ten and day eleven, but I suspect when he’s got this IBR done and dusted, in many years time, when he’s an old man (mmmm … should that be “older” man), smoking a pipe, sitting in his rocking chair in his Bavarian cottage, he’ll look back at his 3 IBR rides and of the 3 rallies, he’ll barely remember the 2023 ride – apart from the big chilli that is ……
I haven’t spoken to Robert about Day 8 yet, but I can see that he reached San Francisco and is now heading east again and into the Mojave.
I’ve just had this message :
“Yuma, AZ. 7.00pm and still 40 degrees. F**k”
I think he hurting, but if he can just get through the next few hours, he will be back into more pleasant temperatures
You know sometimes when you do one thing and EVERYONE else does something else and you question why ? Well that is how Robert is feeling right now.
On leg 3, the riders seem to have split into 4 groups. Three of those groups have gone their own 3 separate directions and are more or less of equal numbers. And then there is the “solitary wolf”, going in a totally different direction to any of the other groups – a man on his own. Time will tell if Robert is a genius or a dumbass !!
I have to say, given what he’s told me about leg 3 (and assuming he’s not missed something obvious), it’s what i would have done. Sometimes you fine high points in the most unusual of circumstances …
So, what else happened on Day 7 ? Well, he screwed up with one bonus in his planning – he had marked it as a “daylight” when in fact it was a “restricted” bonus. He reckons though that it shouldn’t be too much of a disaster though.
Oh and for the first time in his riding in the USA, he got pulled by the police (for speeding). What a lightweight – I got stopped THREE times just on my 2011 IBR ride (although I guess as much out of sympathy that anything)
Anyway, fortunately for Robert he was just let of with a warning.
And for the first time, he is now considering the possibility of finishing and is hopeful (but not yet confident) of a “Gold Medal” finish. In fairness and I know that some have been speculating of perhaps a top ten finish, Robert is very doubtful that can be achieved.
If you look at the Day 7 report on the official site (link below), he’s made the picture :
Day 07 – Main Course
So, a little more of Roberts plan for leg 3 …..
From Denver, he headed north for a while before turning east and heading for San Francisco. He’s resting here overnight before heading south down to San Francisco on day 8 and then, unfortunately back then west again across the Mojave. Let’s hope that the weather is kinder to him this time.
Mmmmm …. that last line reminds me of a German/English joke :
Who are the more generous of German and English children ? Well as generous as the English children are, the Germans will always be kinder ……
I’ll get my coat …..
I cannot lie in that I feel more than a little embarrassed finding myself in this position again.
I feel very honoured that for a third time Robert has asked me to be his mouthpiece for an IBR, but there’s far more qualified people out there who should be doing it in my opinion.
Yes, I’ve ridden the IBR (and finished) and I guess that certainly for his 2013 and 2017 attempts where his choice of bike was “unusual”, I suppose I was the obvious choice, but not this time.
So, when you’re reading my deep and philosophical ramblings, please just remember, they’re just my opinions and thoughts. Other opinions (and probably far more relevant ones) are available !! Lol !!
He’s on his way.
He has a plan and it’s a good one.
He also has a couple of “issues” – one associated to the plan, one not. Neither are show-stoppers but both will need to be managed
I’ll be able to reveal more as the leg develops
I guess most of you won’t know that actually I am on a riding trip myself. Nothing like the IBR, although I’ll have covered about 4000 miles by the time I get home tomorrow on my 1969 T150 over the last 10 days and believe me, that’s tough !!!
However, that’s just so you can understand the sometimes haphazard and necessarily brief reports I’ve written so far.
From tomorrow (Monday), I’ll be able to devote a little more time to the daily updates
Apart from a “f*uck up” when he forgot to make the call in bonus, day 3 of leg two (day 6 of the rally) went well.
During the night between day five and day six, he was riding in the Rocky Mountains – quite a contrast to the previous two days of desert. For the last 15 miles to his scheduled overnight stay, he had to stop and put on warmer gear because the temperature had dropped to 6°.
After four hours he left again the motel knowing that he still had to do another 600 miles. He had one hour of buffer but an open road. The speed limit was increased to 80 mph which meant that he could coast nicely at about 99 mph – Naughty !!!!
He tells me it was quite cold and the temperature hit a low on this rally of minus 2° – as I say, quite a contrast ……
He had one small “fuel range” scare – he was checking how far the next fuel station would be and the GPS told him it was in about 100 miles but the computer of the motorbike told him that my range was also about 100 miles. He had to slow down and to save fuel until I was safe to actually reach the station.
As he was making good time he knew that he would make it to Denver in time. He visited another restaurant bonus point location and arrived Denver right on time and luckily found that the BMW dealer where he had the service scheduled was actually right opposite of the checkpoint hotel. Somehow he’d misjudged exactly where the dealer was – very un-German like !! I would strongly suggest a DNA test when he returns home to ensure that his German parents were really his biological parents and that he wasn’t adopted ……
By 5 o’clock I could roll out the garage with new tyres fresh motor oil and filter – a perfect service from BMW of Denver.
He checked in very early and he had his papers already prepared for scoring He believes that he lost no points at the scoring table
He suspects leg three will take him first to the north-west of the US.
Now he is resting. Leg 3, the five day leg will require a ride on a minimum of 4000 miles and possibly (probably) more ……
I guess you’ll also notice that this report is a little more detailed than my previous ones. I have reconsidered what I can and can’t write and still comply with the social media rules on the IBR. It’s a case of me doing exactly what you should do on IBA rallies – “Improvise, adapt, overcome”
I think that I am still inside the rules …..
hutzlmandl on tour 