I’ve spent quite some time looking at routes, places to see, general trip planning.
So, he came round ( I’ll call him twat for now ) and tells me we only need 2 weeks. His wife ( twatess ) has told him it’s only 2 days to get to Istanbul, two days back leaving 10 days to tour Turkey.
To which I replied Twatess should keep her nose out as she has never even been on a bike. Can’t read a map apparently and thinks it’ll only take 2 days cos it only 4 hours by plane
. I found out how she worked it out. Her dad has a twin engine plane which goes at 200 mph. She’s been to Turkey by airliner and it took 4 hours…..
There fore 4 hours (airline ) X 200 mph ( dad’s plane ) = 800 miles. I was flabbergasted.
He bought a GSA last year ( in May I think) after being off bikes for 15 years , I’ve given some time doing the advanced training thing , about 400 in total. The bike now has 1200 miles on it.
In the end I explained a trip like this is beyond him. If he can’t be bothered to go out on it here, he’ll not fair well in Europe.
These 2 are educated folk both having managerial roles in large companies. In particular she’s high up in the pharma industry and earns shed loads of money. He’s an engineer of some sort. I met him 6 years ago and kind of thought he was educated but lacks an intelligence.
It just shows. Even mince can be lucky
If it wasn’t for the fact he was totally serious, I would say I was being wound up.