Motorcycling Grandad: I look my Grandson for a history trip of a lifetime

70-year-old Chris took his Grandson on the back of his bike to France for a special history trip.

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00:00Oh, well, I'm part of the Christian Motorcycle Group, and we were meeting in Lille, right,

00:07this year. We just go down and meet other people in a chateau just outside Lille.

00:13And I took my older grandson last year, but he was on GCSEs this year, so I took his younger

00:20brother, because he said, well, my brother can't go, can I? So for a week or two, well, no, a couple

00:28of months beforehand, he came on the back of my bike, and just to get the hangar riding

00:33on the back of a motorcycle, you see, and we got him all the gear, the helmets and the

00:38jackets and the armour, so he had all the stuff. And so we set off to go to Lille and meet up

00:44with the rest of the gang.

00:46And what did you do whilst you were over there?

00:48Well, getting there was fun, because we went on the train, on the shuttle, as it's known,

00:55and we set off from here on the Thursday. A group of us met out on the A1, and then we

01:03rode down to Stamford, where we, you know, what a lovely place Stamford is, and we had

01:09a coffee and a cake there, and then we rode on to just outside Oxford, Cambridge, just

01:18outside Cambridge, stayed there overnight, got up early, and drove down to the shuttle port

01:23in Kent, you see. Anyway, so when we got there, we got off in France, and it was a lovely

01:28day, and we rode for about an hour, stopped for coffee and lunch, and then we rode on to

01:34the chateau, which is in a little village called Thurmerie, which is outside Lille.