Barcelona to England by Motorbike | Andorra, the Pyrenees and a Bad Wild Camping Decision
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- Опубликовано: 10 июн 2022
- I headed off back to England after four days in Barcelona.
Still wild camping, no toll roads and no breakdown cover, but this time a different route. I aimed for the tiny country of
Andorra and into the Pyrenees mountain range.
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Locations:
- Starting point: Barcelona, Spain
- The Pyrenees mountain range (Spain, Andorra, France)
- France
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Gear for the Trip:
- AGV X3000 Helmet
- Ride and Sons Arrow Jacket, Desert
-Carhartt WIP Classic Vest
- Hood Jeans SK11 Jeans
- Furygan Melbourne Boots
- Indian Motorcycle Strap Olive Deerskin Gloves
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Timeline:
- 0:00: Intro
and the Stolen Laptop
- 3:27: Riding Through Spain and to Andorra
- 8:50: Andorra
- 10:48: A Bad Wild Camping Decision
- 17:40: Into the Pyrenees
- 22:28: An Industrial Estate in Toulous and a Lot of Rain
- 25:23: Wrap Up
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I really don't think victims of theft should shoulder the blame. Scumbags get away with this sort of thing too easily.
This is an excellent series of videos Freddie. You have an infectious enthusiasm and a presentation style that will make most subjects entertaining.
I enjoy the fact you do so much on your one bike. I’m a recent returnee to motorcycling after 30 years and of course I’ve wondered about upgrading my bike already. But I think I’m realising that once you have a valid motorcycle, the joy is about the mental freedom it gives you to travel and enjoy the journey. The actual model of bike probably makes little difference.
Just watched your video and nearly fell off my seat. As I see myself and my riding buddy on it. Thanks for the surprise.
This encapsulates what freedom on a bike is about. Most bikers can relate to it ,but not many can show it like this vlog.
It's not always roses, but we wouldn't swap it for anything.
Superb viewing with my first caffeine injection.
Happy, safe travels 👍
Thank you so much! Happy Sunday🙂
Cant escape pykies even in Spain!
A great video, Freddie and very nicely edited. Also, kudos for faffing around with cameras which surely slows you down, especially when travelling solo.
Another cracking film Freddie. And fantastic editing. I really appreciate the time you take to film yourself on the bike, it's a lot of faff. The other thing is how much your riding skills have improved since you lived in Tenerife. I've always bike toured in a tent. The ups outway the downs & are all part of the experience. Stay safe & switched on 👍🏻
That’s very kind of you to say so re my riding skills, thank you David🙂
You’re right; the downs are just as much part of the experience and when you look back, they’re really quite insignificant🙂👌🏻
Freddie dobbs is about the only person that makes me wish i was posh. Go on Freddie lad
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💗from NZ mate!! Yep..been there done that looking for free camps in Europe. Brave to try mate cos when I did it, it was 40 years ago on my Moto Guzzi!! Oddly....same problems. Mind you I was on no time constraint and discovered the joys of European campsites that had (other than loos and showers!!) ..bars and food 😃!! Thanks for the memories mate and good luck and safe rides always.
Holy cow, what a cliffhanger! Great video! Actually kind of nice to see when things don't go so great. But sorry you had to go through some crap times there.
Coffe, sunshine, breakfast and watching Freddie, what more could you want on a Sunday?
Brilliant viewing Freddie.. you’re a natural at your chosen subject! The ride, facts and experiences so well shared.
Had a camping holiday in 1995 and took time out to visit Barcelona. Amazing place, then also took the train to Puigcerdà. Walked from there to the Pyrenees at the border of Andorra, Spain, France. Slept under the stars on the side of the mountain amongst wild flowers and butterflies. Still one of my greatest memories.
This sounds fantastic!
I've really enjoyed these last 2 videos of your Barcelona trip .. what an awesome ride!! Thanks Freddie!! It's been very inspiring. Sucks that your laptop was pinched though, light fingered people are everywhere unfortunately and you can never be too careful.
So true- I became way too complacent (I’m more angry at myself than anything😆)
Great content but the amount of adverts is putting me off to be honest, it’s ridiculous
@@scrunchy72 Install adblocker, i never see ads.
@@scrunchy72 You can upgrade to RUclips Premium and NEVER see another ad again ANYWHERE! I absolutely love it and it's totally worth getting hours and hours of my life back waiting for commercials. Another trick/hack is that when the video pauses and goes to commercial, do NOT press play at all. After about 5-10 secs it will then go to another ad (if there's others) and do the same thing. After about 15-20 secs, it will eventually go back to the video and you won't have to actually watch any of the ads (other than 20 secs of ad timers). At least this way you don't have to sit through and watch the annoying ads. I have YT Premium so I don't have this problem but if I open a video in a private/incognito tab/window, then I do have to sit through the ads and this is how I get around it - I refuse to be brainwashed by all the propaganda and advertising (if anything I'd much rather just sit and wait 20-30 secs total of all the advertisement thumbnails). When you do this, do NOT press play until the thumbnail for the video you're watching reappears on the screen.
Edit: Just realized I have the "RUclips Autoplay Blocker" Chrome Extension (there's a comparable one for Firefox too or just disable video autoplay in the permissions) installed so this may be required in conjunction to the hack above for it to work correctly. The extension will block the commercial videos from playing automatically and instead of clicking through the ads and/or clicking the "Skip Ad" button, each ad will automatically skip if they're never started in the first place.
In Ipswich hospital with broken hip.
On plus side have caught up on your channel. Is great that you show how motorcycling is not about having the latest fastest bike .
Is about the people and places it can take you to.
After 30 years of motorcycle travel broken first bone on push bike !
That little white FIAT 850 sport made from 1963-1974 pure beauty
Once you get off the tourist bits, Spain has some beautiful little towns topped off with a castle. What better way to explore than on a bike finding these places by accident. Thanks for taking the time to put this together.
Beautiful video, thanks for the ride.
Thoroughly enjoying catching up on your back catalogue. Catalonia is my favourite place. Absolutely stunning.
Good job Freddie enjoyed every second, thanks
WoW....loved this video. Lots of variety and so much of beauty and interest.
Brilliant video Freddie, really enjoying your journey, thanks 😊
Just loved it Freddie... 👍👍 Keep on the good work... absolutely amazing ..
What an experience and adventure for you Freddie! Thanks for all your hard work and taking us along with you on your journey!
Absolutely enjoying your content Freddie, Keep up the fine work!
Great series Freddie, your doing a great job and awakening the spirit and freedom to hit the roads and experience the wild camping lifestyle.
What a superb video and trip - this is exactly what motorcycle touring is all about. With videos this well made you and your channel deserve every success. Keep up the excellent work, Freddie.
Absolutely love your positivity you are an inspiration well done
Absolutely brilliant video, Freddie! Really really enjoyed it!
Enjoyed watching this trip across Europe look forward to the next one Freddie safe travels 👍🏻👍🏻
Did that very same trip in 1981 on a honda cx 500 . Went to La Ballena alegre camp site. Met a fantastic girl from Scotland who, to my shame, treated very badly in terms of dumping her, really for no reason. Hope you have a great time, enjoy your ride.👍😉😀
Wow! Absolutely amazing!
Great film Freddie. You wanted an adventure and think you got one. Beautiful scenic views. Shame about the laptop. Sods!!
Some stunning countryside especially the mountains. Awesome
Wow! Freedom! Thank you!
Great video and what an adventure. 👍
Great Video and a great Trip Freddie. Thank you. Have a safe ride.
Great video Freddie, on a cliffhanger. Looking forward to the next instalment 👏
Great video, the highs and lows of travelling on a bike but well worth it. Nice shot in the sunset, looked a good spot to put the tent up.
freddie you are really making me hop on my bike and out of my comfort zone and travel through Europe. Great video
Fantastic Freddie, thanks for all the hard work.
See you in the next one!…..great to see the Bonneville keeping you mobile 🇬🇧
Such a great video. Stunning scenery and really like the information about the places you visit. I rode to barcelona via the Pyrenees from santander in September. This vid has triggered some good memories :)
I’m so happy to hear so many good things about my lovely country, specially coming from a rider because I’m also one. And yes, it is a very popular place for motorcycles, I guess it’s due to the curvy roads and breathtaking mountain views. Anyways, I’m glad you enjoyed your short trip to Andorra. Enjoy the rest of your journey!
Great video Freddie. Amazing scenery. Keep smiling all adds to the fun makes great talking point in the future.⛺🏍
Great videos Freddie, enjoying your content !
You've kept my full attention! Great adventure, good luck for the rest of your ride.
Awesome video and awesome content can’t wait for the next video Thank’s Freddie
I love your videos, mate! 👍👍👍
What a fantastic channel. Great work man.
Excellent vid mate! It’s a great way to see a country. You miss so much trawling down the motorways!
GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT VIDEO!!!!
What a adventure!
Awesome Freddie, keep smiling bud! Embrace the elements but keep warm!!
Andorra has grown a bit since I was last there in the middle eighties I remember the road from and back again to France is the best road I’ve ever ridden & there was no tunnel then either. Great video as always ride safe .
Hey Freddie, what an amazing video! I love the honesty. So good. Can’t wait for the next instalment! Chris
This is true adventure. Very good vibes. I will be doing more or less the same next week in Portugal and Spain.
This was a marvellous little 2 part series. Loved it matey.
Wow Andorra looks amazing!
Excellent filming and editing. Do appreciate the effort you take in filming 👌🏻
I’ve been following your Instagram stories & can’t wait to see the next chapter in this trip! Highs & lows but what an adventure! I’ve been to Andorra quite a few times skiing but didn’t realise how busy it is during summer months, I may just have to visit when there’s no snow on the ground! Who would have guessed Andorra was a hive of biking activity!
It’s 7.15am here in sunny Stoke…I’m eating scrambled eggs and bacon, drinking coffee and watching Freddie on yet another road trip/adventure lol. These videos really have given me the urge to load the car and set off on a foreign road trip next summer 😎 It will have to be in my car because I’ve never ridden a motor bike in my life…but…an adventure is an adventure yeah ? Cheers Freddie excellent viewing yet again 👍🇬🇧😎
Can recommend northern Spain....Picos Mountains.... overnight ferry Plymouth to Santander !..😎
Completely agree Alan- adventure’s adventure and it doesn’t matter one bit if it’s in a car or bike!🙂
Delighted you enjoyed the video with your hearty breakfast🙂👌🏻
Me too! Hey I passed my test at age 60 a few months ago so give it a go. Took me just 3 months over the winter. I'm hoping to just go camping in this country to be honest, I haven't got the bottle yet to do what Freddie does! Now for another coffee....
Do it this year 🙂
@@simoncook7456 unable to do road trip this year…going to Turkey in July and Cornwall in August but it won’t be a road trip…just a nice guest house and pottering around…next year ‘tho 😎👍
Just brilliant Freddie. You're a top bloke
Great bike and stunning scenery! Didnt expect so many bikers but the location is just amazing👍
Este video me recordó un viaje que hice en moto en el cual visité parte de los Pirineos y Andorra. Estuve en esa cafetería tomando un café después de haber ido a una tienda a comprar un casco para mi cuñada, aunque los precios no eran mejores que los de las tiendas en Tenerife.
Disfruta del viaje Freddie!!
Andres comment translated through Google :-)
“This video reminded me of a trip that I made on a motorcycle in which I visited part of the Pyrenees and Andorra. I was in that cafeteria drinking coffee after having gone to a store to buy a helmet for my sister -in -law, although prices were not better than those of the stores in Tenerife.
Enjoy the trip Freddie !!”
Great film , you’ve had a tough time, but the adversity has brought out the best in you. Top chap. The solo filming has been great , wonderful composition and edits. Well done 👍🏽
Great video Freddie. makes me want to get out more on my bike.
Great piece of film! Must have been demoralising coming from the Pyrenees into a Toulouse industrial estate. I would have pitched up by that barn watching the beautiful sunset at the end of the film. Respect
Hi, and your doing it your way , the ups and down of your wild camping trip . Looking just fine from this end , but very tiring from your aspect . magic all the way and your filming is spot on and your self motivation runs in your genes .Thank for the video and lets hope the laptop blows up on start up . Take care .😎
The roads around Andorra do indeed look like motorcycle heaven. Sorry to hear about the stolen laptop, don’t be too hard on yourself, that could have happened to anybody. Thanks for sharing the journey Freddie! Safe travels back to be UK! 👍🏻
Such a joy to watch ...
Whenever I travelled France on the motorbike I always took any road except motorways. It's so much nicer to travel. And I know the Dordogne well, it's an amazing spot in France.
I recently found this chanel and absolutely love it's content. I'm a 58 year old biker (Triumph Speed Triple). I had a Bonnie before the Speedy. Loving it....
This was a pearler of a vid and especially with the number of ride by clips which must be a royal pain in the ass stopping and going back to pick it up, it's amazing the camera didn't get pinched as well
Morning Freddie, loving this trip and the videos, Sorry about the laptop. 💪
Very good job 👍 wish I was traveling with you through Spain, France, and into England. I'm a amateur WWII historian and since I've never seen Europe I would dearly love to be able to spend several months over there. I thank you for providing me the next best thing to actually being there. Cheers! dp.
Fabulous video... Loving this little series! I wild camp wherever I travel, USA, NZ, Oz and Europe... The latter can be the most tricky... Esp our beloved UK, for those exact reasons... Finding somewhere hidden, flat and safe! So totally sympathise with you on the camp spot anxiety lol
Good one Freddie. I know how it can feel being miles from home, wet and cold while looking for a place to free camp. The good part is that its always nice to look back on those times in the comfort of home.
This is so true. Now I’m back, nothing but good memories🙂
Great to be travelling with you Freddie. Wish I had chosen to do this after chaos of cancelled and delayed flights over the last week, it’d have been a lot more fun, and not taken much longer either!
Great video Freddie. Sorry to hear that your Lt got nicked. I had the same experience with these guys on my way back from Barcelona on my first stop in France some weeks ago.
Luckily all panniers were locked and nothing disappeared.
Last year I rode the entire Pyrenees from east to west and crossed Andorra as well. Absolutely beautiful area and certainly worth to revisit from time to time.
Top spot, I was all set to visit Portugal and Spain two years ago, then you know what hit.
Looking towards 2024 now.
Let me rephrase that, “hopefully” 2024.
Great entertainment. Thanks !
Well done buh, pyrenees is lovely place to ride
Great video Freddie....
You’ve touched on one of the big problems about avoiding the main roads when your trying to push on, the lack of “out of hours” petrol stations or even places to get something to eat. Great content 👍
Worth it though. Always a better more interesting experience to get away from the maddening crowd if you have time. Rural France is amazing for food and pace of life.
😮 4:52 Stunning 😮 thanks for filming this ride.🤙
Apart from getting your laptop stolen, and the other stuff that also went missing, you've definitely de-stressed on this ride.
Just hammer on all the bikes 🏍 😎 there.
Never had the chance to visit Andorra 🇦🇩. 9:01 Did not know that about Andorra. 👍
Riding soIo in France and Italy i would sometimes ride through the night after leaving it too late to find a camp site. I sat in the rain under a poncho, outside a petrol station from 10pm to when it opened at 07:00, as it was too risky to go further. Bad crash in Pyrenees but still rode to Calais. Happy days. Love all your vids. Better than any TV presenter.
ride safe mate, awesome journey
Fantastic video, more European adventure needed, love it 😎
Recently come across your videos and have subscribed, interesting content and very well presented.
Clutch still sounds like a bag of nails 😂. Great vids. Thanks for taking the time to upload. Sheffield England
Great stuff, enjoying with my breakfast coffee. Just been to Belgium, although air BnB for me!
so pleased you went over the pyrenees and not through the tunnel
Great adventure Freddie, Did this with a motorcycle tour company and spoilt staying in hotels. Still, the ride and the scenery remains just as good.
Loving the trip! I'm doing my own moto-camping trip in August using soft luggage. My main concern is lack of security for this luggage during rest stops. I'm taking a one litre fuel bottle; as you've noticed, rural France isn't known for the convenience of fuel stops. I've pre-booked camp sites to give me a reason to crack on. There are so many reasons to stop and record and I felt this was a way of keeping me moving. Safe journey!
Soft luggage is fine .
A lock will only keep out a honest Man .
Most hard luggage can be opened with a screw driver.
Rural France is full of self-service petrol stations and wonderful municipal campsites which are cheap and don’t need to be pre-booked. I did it all with a north face duffel bag and no locks - just avoid big town centres!
@@davidforsdike4343 I use a 120 litre wire mesh Pacsafe Rucksack Protector cost around £70- 80.00 on line; British Made. It stops would be thieves from accessing my tent & 40 liter bag on my tail rack and my 20 litre side panniers all together on my CB 500.
What a great start to my Sunday morning watching your video. This has to be your best yet. Only some drone footage could have made it better. Awesome.
I can totally empathise mate. Wild camping is always a gamble. Sometimes it’s a crappy uncomfortable side of the road experience, sometimes you get moved off at gun point, but sometimes you find yourself in the most remarkable hidden away spot that makes it all worthwild.
Hi Freddie,
Bit of a damp squib going on there at the end but hey rough with the smooth & all that. Rode to south of France on R100GS bumblebee years ago with the wife, one memorable moment was a long slog back and both of us falling asleep at a table in some services, woke up hours later. No one bothered us or stole anything, oh how the times have changed. Looking forward to your coming adventures.
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Great vid Freddy … nice edutainment ..
Excellent as always 😁😁😁
Excellent video 📹 👏...really shows the freedom of travel on the bike. Great stuff filming and editing as well..I hope Monika approves!! Rotten luck with your laptop...chalk it up to experience. Cheers, Steve