Wayback
A happy holiday to Provence with Paul W on his GSR750ES, new that year. I was riding my XJ900, which had been to the Nürburgring and crossed the watershed to the Danube the previous summer, 1984.
We stayed our first night in a one-star hotel in Chartres. Next night and a massive 900 km later, we pitched my tent under the cork trees in a camping à la ferme in Grimaud for our first week in the South. Our days out included Port Grimaud and of course Saint Tropez and the beaches.
More photos: St. Tropez and the Grand Canyon of the Verdon - Sep 1985
Enjoying Glastonbury 2022 from the comfort of a home cinema reminded me of the years we enjoyed Reading Rocks. These few photos and fuzzy memories are all that remain. It looks far smaller in scale and so much more relaxed than the big festivals we see on the TV these days. The music reached everywhere on the site but on the stage was “over there”, some way away from our spot on the grass field. Although there was an Eidophor, the big television screen which showed close-ups of the musicians in black and white, but the picture was dim and hardly worth it, even after dark. I recall we laid back and enjoyed the sunset and the moon amongst the smells of cooking on camping stoves and the burger bars at the edge of the field.
Read more: Reading Rocks ’79 - Little John’s Farm, Reading - August 1979
New scans from my negatives of our hike around the Cornwall Coast Path from St. Ives to Penzance over the August Bank Holiday in 1995.
Photos from the location shoot for the London Weekend Television drama “Wish Me Luck” in September and October 1988.
Last week in August, 1998: riding my new CBR600F to Provence for the GLME Summercamp 98 in Provence, organised by the French club AMA.
