Just before going to university in the UK, a couple of friends and I picked up our rucksacks and set out on the traditional 'Grand Tour' of Europe.

We had a fine old time, and nobody was too surprised when, a good many years and adventures later (many of them involving European countries and motorcycles), I moved from England to mainland Europe, specifically to Holland.

I stayed there for quite a bit longer than I had anticipated, and got myself into all sorts of interesting scrapes. Some of the less well organised pages on this site come from that period, because I was only just figuring out how the internet worked and what I could do with it. As the rest of the site matured over the years, these pages just got converted willy-nilly from one architecture to another, so if you find one that looks a bit amateurish... sorry.

The European section is also the part of the site that is most likely be updated with the stories of past trips. Maybe, one day, I'll even write up the story of that first Grand Tour.