While GUK was actually planning to ride the qualification for the women world record ride in 2018 the idea to explore Ireland came out of a discussion on rarely visited locations. It’s true if I ask around my friends hardly anyone has been to the green island on a motorbike – I wonder why and yes Ireland has a great motorcyclists scene starting from the world famous Irish Road Races to the MCCS and MC’s all ovber the place. Good choice I think so enjoying the first warming sunbeams of the year on our balcony we checked distances against available time and found a good route that would match up the two weeks time we had.

Of course we need to see the natural beauties, meet people and see some of the history from megalithic cultures to today. But that is easy in Ireland .. it seems you can find that around every corner. Speaking of corners there are some interesting coastal routes in south and west and then there are some „mountain“ passes we want to see as well and as I have good memories of my first ever international motorcycle trip to Donegal’s Sleave League we need to drive up there and then see the Dunlops, the racing legends – quickly it was clear this might become a trip somewhere in between easy cruising and discovering and going offroad in some places. Cool stuff, the more we were investigating the more places to see landed on our bucket list. Of course once we start we usually drop our plans and follow the sun but honestly travel preparations are great fun and let you dream of the time there already. When can we finally get started?