by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 26, 2020 | Blog
Monday, March 9th 2020 “Hello Peeeeter – how nice to meet you!” Sandra gives me a firm handshake and leads me across the road to a well used Mitsubishi four wheel drive where partner Javier is behind the wheel, agitating the accelerator gently. Javi wants to get...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 25, 2020 | Blog
Monday, March 9th 2020 Buenos Aires La Ricoleta Cemetery presents itself to the world with a sense of enormous self-importance. Behind the neo-classical portico entrance, with its four Doric columns, there are stories upon stories that together tell the story of...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog
February 2020, Dublin to Feltham Turning my dream into reality has an inauspicious start. It’s the early hours of a Thursday morning in late February. It’s started to spit rain and I’m standing on the dockside in Dublin Port, getting colder and feeling a tad...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 21, 2020 | Blog
Devon, England, November 2019 Stephen Hingston looks wistfully at his gleaming R1200 GS Adventure, one eye on the pristine machine now sitting on his driveway in Devon, and the other on me – the bike’s new owner. I am about to ride off on his beloved four-year old...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 21, 2020 | Blog
IN A NEW SERIES, PETER MURTAGH TRAVELS FROM PATAGONIA TO ALASKA ON A MOTORBIKE A group of bikers, all looking the part, are standing on the forecourt of a petrol station in the middle of south Argentina’s Patagonian Desert, fascinating themselves over their machines...
by PeterMurtagh-user | Mar 3, 2020 | Blog
I’m heading south — London to Buenos Aires and from there to Tierra del Fuego — in early March 2020. Soon after, I’ll begin writing here, frequently but perhaps not on a daily basis, and every Saturday in the Irish Times (irishtimes.com). In...
