As from my other thread, i plan on cycling Barcelona to Belfast, a long tour fully loaded...

How do you guys lock you bikes up??? Do you secure your panniers?? Do you venture far away from your bikes, or have them in sight all the time??

What type of lock do you guys recommend ??

There will be two of us on this tour, so we were thinking along the lines of, one does the shopping the other watches the bikes.. is that the way to do it??

Another thing is Bike insurance.. were gonna need to get working on that seeing as ive already got my bike, and ang will have hers very soon, and neither of us have insurance!!

Cheers!!