Ok let’s get it out there, I am from Yorkshire. There I’ve said it and I am fine with it. Not a true Yorkshire man in the fullest sense, as I was actually born much further south in the UK. However, for all except 10 months of my life I have called Yorkshire my home. I have lived, at times, in other parts of the UK and Europe, but I am here now and here is where I plan to stay.
I still spend a lot of time travelling the world and I have visited some wonderful places. But I have started to realise that I know more about far off lands than I do of my home county and the UK in general. In 2019 my plan is to change this current state of affairs and become much more knowledgeable about my immediate surroundings (discounting trips to London and California already planned for January).
It was during this moment of navel gazing towards the end of 2018, that a thought crossed my mind. I have never visited or travelled across the Humber Bridge. Remarkable considering how close I live to it and the amount of travelling I have done over the years to the east coast of Yorkshire.
No time like the present, I thought and dragged the motorbike out of hibernation for a quick day out. Packing the photography gear and the drone in to the panniers, I thought why not make this a bit of a vlog/video clip YouTube style? So GoPro’s attached (other action cameras are available and not a promo) I set off.
For those of you that don’t know about the Humber Bridge , according to Wikipedia:
The Humber Bridge, near Kingston upon Hull, England, is a single-span suspension bridge, which opened to traffic on 24 June 1981. When it was opened, it was the longest of its type in the world; it was not surpassed until 1998, with the completion of the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, and it is now the eighth-longest… The bridge can be seen for miles around and from as far as Patrington in the East Riding of Yorkshire and out to sea miles off the East Yorkshire coast. It is a Grade I listed building. It has 4 lanes of traffic and carries the A15 along with pedestrian/cycle-ways either side.
After around an hour I arrived, set up the camera and the bike for some BMW style promo shots. You know the type, The ones you see in the Motorad and bike magazines (online versions of course). Anyway, you can see my efforts in the pictures and video clips below.
