White Rose ToursBlog
2024.....so far
New season, new experiences.....
A new Era
2023 saw us complete our last tour handing over ownership to Chris and Sharan McIntyre.
2022 Tour season now complete
Well I am pleased to say that 2022 saw us complete a full season of tours.
2022 Tour Season
Well ahead of schedule this year - but lets face it we have hardly been snowed under as yet another year slips by with Corona virus ruling our lives.
Loading 2021 maps to Garmin 660
Garmin have been up to there old tricks and effectively trying to make older models useless despite saying that the units are LM or lifetime mapping. They have effectively increased the map details to such a point that when you try and load it, the 660 says you have insufficient memory. It does allow you to download areas of Europe, but these are only small, so say you pick France , you cant get Germany or any other country etc etc. not much use if you are taking a trip across Europe. We are not experts so if anyone has a better fix then please let us know, but this is what Michel L'Hours has come up with. Note: I also have a 590 and the maps went straight in no problem.
2021 Tour Season
Well what a year 2020 was, or rather was not, as we were unable to do a single tour this year. Lets hope for better in 2021.
Poland 2019
The Poland tour was new to us and was very much billed as a historic tour more than one with great roads and scenery.
Killarney & SW Ireland 2019
Many thanks to Alison for her blog on their tour to Ireland, here is what she has to say.
Grand Alps 2019
The Grand Alps tour was the opportunity to visit somewhere that we had done a recon on many years ago, and we were not disappointed.
Tour of Spain 2019
Having never ridden as far south as Andalucía previously this is one tour I was really looking forward to.