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Day 19 🏴 Leander and White Cliffs of Dover
July 10th 2023 I woke up with a view of a typical British neighbourhood. Nice brick houses, each with a small lawn and a driveway in front. Broad sidewalks with pupils walking to school and people jogging or walking their dogs. The ferry to leave Britain and return to the continent was going to leave…
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Day 17 🏴 Ross, Andy, Raffaello & Consuelo
The evening before, when I arrived at Ross’s, we went for a walk with his dog Jake and his brother’s dog Milo. A refreshing experience for everyone. The morning after we continued the tradition and went for another walk. My legs really needed a strech and the woods were lovely. Later that morning, Ross had…
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Day 16 🏴 Cardiff and the three Musketeers
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Before you wonder, my phone was not unlocked in my pocket while I was riding. Among other things l, Wales is also famous for the town with the longest name. A kind of marketing excercise that worked well. I wished to visit that town just for the fun of taking a photo or two…
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Day 12 🇫🇷 Mont-Saint-Michel
The camping was in a farm, very particular. The whole family worked with animals and in the fields. About 2 hours drive were separating Lollo and I from our new destination. A place I also visited with my parents but that more than the castles, remained impressed in my heart and memories: Mont-Saint-Michel. Just few…
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Day 8 🇫🇷 Polignac
The camping La Poche was a nice little place with big cicadas. Here is an idea of my itinerary through France. Consider that I also knew I wanted to get to Strasburg. The rest is improvising based on recommendations, Internet searches and adventure instinct. I thought the center of France would be boring and flat…
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Day 7 🇫🇷 Combe Laval and Lavender
The night was relaxing. The morning started in the same way the evening before ended: with a gorgeous view from my tent. It’s not easy to find a good meal in France but the sweets balance the situation. The boulangeries are always full of delicious things. So this morning, for breakfast I stopped at one.…
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Day 5 🇫🇷 Besançon
All motorbike dealships in France are open from Tuesday to Saturday and are closed Sunday and Monday. A lesson I learned the hard way. It makes sense but my timing was not the best. I decided to spend the day visiting the nearby city Besançon. Once again the invisibility cloak worked his magic and I…
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Day 87 🇮🇹 Stelvio and 🇦🇹 Austria
Thursday September the 30thTotal distance driven: 8.585 KmToday’s distance: 226 Km Walked distance: 7 Km Do you remember the a Transfagarasan in Romania? Well, today we are going to ride the Stelvio Pass (Stilfser Joch), the highest paved mountain pass in the Eastern Alps. The road starts in Bormio and arrives in Prato allo Stelvio…
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Day 79 🇮🇹 The Gavia Pass
Thursday September the 23rdTotal distance driven: 8.359 KmToday’s distance: 140 Km in 2:35hWalked distance: 6 Km The nice part of camping in Italy is the possibility to have breakfast the Italian way. Almost every camp site offers cappuccino or latte macchiato and croissants on reservation the evening before. While drinking my latte macchiato the camping…
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Day 78 🇮🇹 Verona & Lake Iseo
Wednesday September the 22ndTotal distance driven: 8.219KmToday’s distance: 92 Km in 1:43hWalked distance: 18,6 Km Today is going to be a lazy day in Verona. After breakfast I walked to the city center and discovered some nice spots. I bought a newspaper, found a nice park near the Arena and enjoyed the calm atmosphere of…
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Day 77 🇮🇹 La Cisa & Parma
Tuesday September the 21stTotal distance driven: 8.127KmToday’s distance: 216 Km in 4:26hWalked distance: 9,8 Km Buongiorno ☀️ The sun is shining and there is a wonderful Panorama for breakfast. Actually the two ladies of the B&B are serving pieces of different sweets “Crostate” they personally baked. They kindly ask me not to mention the sweets…
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Day 76 🇮🇹 Lucca & La Spezia
Monday September the 20thTotal distance driven: 7.910KmToday’s distance: 149 Km in 3:01hWalked distance: 16,8 Km Last evening I found a camping site very close to Lucca called Il Serchio. It’s actually a camper area and it had rain during the day with the result that the ground was really muddy and uneven as campers where…
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Day 75 🇮🇹 Siena & Monteriggioni
Sunday September the 19thTotal distance driven: 7.761 KmToday’s distance: 194 Km in 3:49hWalked distance: 13,4 Km A sunny morning awaited me when I woke up. The camping offered breakfast with cappuccino and cornetto for few coins. The best part was eating and drinking with the following show in front of me: Wonderful stuff 😁 According…
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Day 74 🇮🇹 Montepulciano, Pienza & Montalcino
Saturday September the 18thTotal distance driven: 7.567 KmToday’s distance: 148 Km in 2:59hWalked distance: 17,2 Km Last night and this morning I walked around Orvieto and discovered its alleys and the Dome. Definitely a nice little town worth a visit. The Dome is humongous and out of proportions for the size of this place. It…
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Day 73 🇮🇹 Monsters and the dying town
Friday September the 17thTotal distance driven: 7.418 KmToday’s distance: 228 Km in 4:45hWalked distance: 12,3 Km After five weeks in Italy, it’s time to continue the tour. The summer is slowly approaching its end and this morning I woke up with heavy rain knocking on the roof. I did expect that, not just because I…
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Day 39 🇮🇹 Proud to be Italian
Saturday August the 14thTotal distance driven: 7.027KmToday’s distance: 478 Km in 6:02hWalked distance: 4,4 Km When I woke up in Barletta, I knew I wanted to reach Rome that day. With long drives, I prefer to have a couple of interesting locations along the way to make a pause. While searching for such locations, I…
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Day 38 🇦🇱 Durres and a Ferry
Friday August the 13thTotal distance driven: 6.449 KmToday’s distance: 110 Km in 1:56hWalked distance: 5,9 Km I’m exhausted. Almost 40 days on the run. If I had a companion, it would probably feel differently. My wife and the boys landed in Rome yesterday and I would like to see them. It’s a weird feeling: I…
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Day 37 🇦🇱 Tirana
Thursday August the 12thTotal distance driven: 6.339 KmToday’s distance: 0 KmWalked distance: 18,9 Km As for every big city I dedicated one day to explore Tirana. If you have ever been to Rome, you will notice how much some corners of Tirana remind it. Look at the picture below. The pine trees, the marble building…
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Day 36 🇦🇱 The thousand windows of Berat
Wednesday August the 11thTotal distance driven: 6.339 KmToday’s distance: 126 Km in 2:02hWalked distance: 14,3 Km I spent the night in a small hotel with traditional furnitures and marvellous ambience. Here are the first impressions of Berat from the night before: The photo above provides a small glimpse of the main characteristic of Berat: the…
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Day 35 🇲🇰 Little wonderful Ohrid
Tuesday August the 10thTotal distance driven: 6.313 KmToday’s distance: 162 Km in 2:53hWalked distance: 15,6 Km The camping lake is only 3 Kms away from the town of Ohrid. Perfect day for a walk to discover the surroundings. Do you know how is it called a “fruit salad” in Italian? Macedonia. Some say this name…
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Day 34 🇲🇰 The refreshing Matka Canyon
Monday August the 9thTotal distance driven: 6.151KmToday’s distance: 211 Km in 3:38hWalked distance: 9.2 Km In the morning I took another walk through the old town of Skopje. Wonderful scenes! As another hot day approached, I headed to a renowned and fabulous Canyon about 15 Kms / 10 miles from the city: Matka. Once I…
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Day 33 🇲🇰 Kuklica & Skopje
Sunday August the 8thTotal distance driven: 5.939 KmToday’s distance: 235 Km in 4:06hWalked distance: 9.2 Km Today I’m going to leave Bulgaria and enter the Republic of North Macedonia but first I want to complete my collection of abandoned petrol stations 🤣 It’s Sunday! How do I know? There is a queue at the frontier…
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Day 32 🇧🇬 The amazing seven Rila lakes
Saturday August the 7thTotal distance driven: 5.704 KmToday’s distance: 113 KmWalked distance: 13,4 Km It’s August and the temperatures are rasing, especially in the cities. Plovdiv registered 41 degrees Celsius the day I left it. Everyday I face 38-39C which is nice when you are at the lake or at the beach but with my…
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Day 31 🇧🇬 Sofia
Friday August the 6thTotal distance driven: 5591 KmToday’s distance: 0 KmWalked distance: 16 Km Today is one month I’m on this journey. It’s great to be with my Ducati discovering the Balkans and meeting new friends but I also miss my wife, my boys, my family and friends at home. Travelling for long times has…
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Day 30 🇧🇬 Devil’s Throat Cave & a Great Ride
Thursday August the 5thTotal distance driven: 5591 KmToday’s distance: 348 Km in 5:49hWalked distance: 8.1 Km It wasn’t easy leaving Plovdiv but the next destination promised to be an exciting one: a huge cave called devil’s throat. Little that I know, the best part was going to be the ride to get there. As most…
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Day 29 🇧🇬 Veliko Tarnovo and Plovdiv
Wednesday August the 4thTotal distance driven: 5243 KmToday’s distance: 238 Km in 3:39hWalked distance: 14 Km Veliko Tarnovo, the old capital of Bulgaria. There is only one camping out of town and it’s five stars. Very nice, with a big swimming pool and completely in the nature. But it was almost empty. I counted 3x…
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Day 27 🇧🇬 Varna and Vodka
Monday August the 2ndTotal distance driven: 4.724 KmToday’s distance: 103 KmWalked distance: 6,9 Km I woke up with a little headache and memorable conversations of the night before. We had finished the bottle. It was around 7:30 am. No sign of Alexey besides his motorcycle and tent. The showers and toilets of the camping where…
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Day 26 🇷🇴 A boat trip and an Artist
Saturday August the 1stTotal distance driven: 4.617 KmToday’s distance: 294 KmWalked distance: 6,4 Km Luckily I needed the Voltaren’s help only once. After riding again with the jacket, everything went back to normal. Tanja, the biker I met in Budapest, told me she has always a warming cream with her and it has helped more…
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Day 25 🇷🇴 Tulcea and the Danube Delta
Saturday July the 31stTotal distance driven: 4.323 KmToday’s distance: 115 KmWalked distance: 5,4 Km My back was truly in bad shape. The night before, I came to the conclusion that the probable cause was rising without my jacket. It was over 38C and dry but probably my back didn’t like it. That must have been…
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Day 24 🇷🇴 Vulcano Mud and a Crash
Friday July the 30thTotal distance driven: 4.208 KmToday’s distance: 355 KmWalked distance: 5,6 Km Next destination: Tulcea and the Danube Delta. As expected the road was flat and straight. Here is what it looks like near Bucharest: After a quarter of an hour I got bored. There was still a place I actually wanted to…
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Day 23 🇷🇴 Bucharest
Thursday July the 29thTotal distance driven: 3.853 KmToday’s distance: 0 KmWalked distance: 12 Km Budapest and Bucharest. Similar names, many people mix them up. But they are fundamentally different cities. Bucharest is an absolutely large city with huge spaces. The touch of the dictator Ceausescu is very much visible, especially in buildings like the Palace…
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Day 22 🇷🇴 Bran & Peles castle, Rasnov and hail
Wednesday July the 28thTotal distance driven: 3.853 KmToday’s distance: 186 KmWalked distance: 15,8 Km To tell the truth, I already attempted to visit the famous Bran castle the morning before. But I had to do my laundry and arrived at the castle around 10:30am. Bran is a very touristic attraction and the queue was just…
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Day 21 🇷🇴 Hiking the 7 ladders & Brasnov
Tuesday July the 27thTotal distance driven: 3.667 KmToday’s distance: 98 Km in 2:15hWalked distance: 19,8 Km When I entered Romania few days ago, I stayed at Camping Mala near Orasova. Funny thing also Alex and Jana went to that camping in the past. In the morning I was pointing the sat nav to Corvin Castle…
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Day 19 🇷🇴 The Transfagarasan & Lake Balea
Sunday July the 25thTotal distance driven: 3.359 KmToday’s distance: 122 Km in 3:07hWalked distance: 7,2 Km The Transfagarasan. Try to pronounce it 😂 The best road in the world according to Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear. Previously he used the same definition for the Stelvio pass in Italy, which is near Bormio, my mother’s birth…
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Day 18 🇷🇴 Corvin Castle
Saturday July the 24thTotal distance driven: 3.201 KmToday’s distance: 364 Km in 5:54hWalked distance: 9,7 Km Breakfast, tent, packed. I had to go back and watch again the king‘s statue, as it was only 8 km away from the camping. My memory sometimes is not the best. When I have moments I want to remember,…
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Day 17 🇷🇴 King Decebalus
Friday July the 23ndTotal distance driven: 2.475 KmToday’s distance: 319 Km in 5:33hWalked distance: 5Km Today I’m heading to Romania and to the spot that made me change my route through Serbia. Just outside Belgrade, in the east direction the roads get hilly and the driving fun is back. Very rural landscapes and encounters. Just…
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Day 16 🇷🇸 Belgrade
Thursday July the 22ndTotal distance driven: 2.156 KmToday’s distance: 0 Km Walked distance: 22,8Km Today was reserved for the sightseeing of Belgrade, beginning from the fortress. Here it is possible to see some of the russian influence in Serbia. I walked through the city with a tourist map for orientation and saw some more street…
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Day 15 🇷🇸 On the way to Serbia
Wednesday July the 21stTotal distance driven: 2.156 KmToday’s distance: About 400 Km Walked distance: 6Km Beside Budapest, Hungary has other touristic attractions to offer. Hortobagy didn’t work as expected. Then I considered lake Balaton, the cave bath of Miskolctapolca and the city of Pecs. There is more but I couldn’t find anything I wanted to…
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Day 14 🇭🇺 Budapest
After having set up the tent the evening before at the Arena camping in Budapest, I met Tanja. She arrived by bicycle from Germany and had done over 600Km in the past week. Her tour actually started two weeks before and included Austria, Slovakia and Hungary as she followed the Danube.The first week her son…
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Day 10 🇸🇰 Bojnice and a lot of road
Today I wanted to visit Bojnice‘s castle and depending on how tired I was going to feel, either stayed there overnight or reach the far north-east corner of Slovakia, home of the the Slovak Paradise Natural Park. Arrived in Bojnice, I had to leverage my PacSafe to lock my Motorcycle Gear and change clothes. The…
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Day 5 🇨🇿 Ještěd Tower & first breakdown
Today I was back on my Ducati chasing curves. The destination was another national park to visit the Adršpach-Teplice Rocks. More on that later. I left around 9am and really had some good fun driving the first kilometres across the woods. One thing that strikes me is the amount of railroads even in the most…
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Day 4 🇨🇿 Boemian Switzerland
Today was reserved for hiking. No motorcycle riding. Spoiler alert: this place was well worth the trip!Around 10am I began my hike which turned out to be over 16 Km through the Narodni Park. Amazing views and gorgeous details: The highlight was the „Prebishtor“. When I looked on the Internet for the top spots in…
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Day 2 🇨🇿 Beautiful Pilsen
The camping is just 3 Km distant from the city center, which shows how small this city is. Usually cities this size have a beautiful flare and Pilsen is no exception to this rule. The most famous and impressive parts are the great synagogue and the St Bartholomew Cathedral. This last offers a great view…
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