Saturdays, made for driving around and shopping!

So, again, it's been a while since I last posted up on here. I'm still going through that Ireland book and am now up to 2 pages of A4 worth of places to visit with still another 300 pages to go! I will complete it one day!

Anyway, back to the here and now!

Payday was just over a week ago and I'm sure as many others do, that money was just itching to be spent. With the forthcoming trip to Ireland in just over 2 months time and the weather becoming warmer (ever so slightly) and the days getting longer it was high time that we started looking for some motorbike clothing for Nikki.

After much looking online, we found a shop in Poole that seemed to have the right clothing selection so on Saturday we drove down. The plan was to leave nice and early, miss the traffic, get the clothes and spend the day by the beach. As it worked out, we left at 11am, got stuck in traffic between Bournemouth and Poole and had to make an unscheduled shop when the car overheated due to a lack of coolant!

We arrived at the shop which seemed to be in the middle of a virtually desolate street, parked up and walked in. Greeted by a friendly shop assistant, Nikki tried on a few items and eventually we found what we were after. Jacket, trousers and gloves for £250! With this being such a bargain, I thought I would treat myself and as any good Indian would do, haggled a pair of Goretex Alpinestars down to £50! Unfortunately, none of the boots were a great fit so we had to give them a miss.

At this point, we realised that not only had we missed breakfast, but had effectively missed lunchtime too and were both starving so a quick trip to Bournemouth for lunch was done. After refuelling ourselves it was back home again with a quick stop at home to pick up my boots in the hope that the local Hein Gericke shop still had them in stock. Unfortunately, they had discontinued my boot but had another that was a good fit for Nikki so within 5 minutes a decision was made to make the purchase! Who said women took an age to shop?!?

After an exhausting day trekking around the south coast, I was fully excited about the prospect of going out on the bike the next day and fulfilling a 2 year dream of getting Nikki in the saddle too!