Early morning wakeup, packing, breakfast and on the road again. No special target for this day either except to get into hotel on time. I decided to drive non-toll road A-7 as that looked to be quite fast anyhow. During the drive only noticeable thing was around Valencia, forest fires …
Had a small breakfast at the hotel, packed and to the bike. I got the bike parked behind the hotel and as expected it was right there where I left it. Still muddy and all… To start with I was not planning to take the fastest route from Bardonecchia, but …
As we were a bit after planned schedule, this was the only day for me to get onto unpaved Alp roads. Had some routes planned either by looking at routes others had driven or just by seeing from the map: Not all of these were unpaved, some were partly and …
After having breakfast at 07:00 we started packing the bikes and back on the road again. For this day we set target to be away from autobahn and drive smaller roads into Italy and see how far we would get. And we did get into really nice roads on the …
Got a bit late start for the morning, breakfast was at 8:30… We also had some hairy one to eat with us. Also our start was a bit delayed, we got on the road as late as 9:30… and it was still raining a bit. We drove in light rain …
We had already heard the news that next day was going to be really rainy one in Sweden and as we walked outside in the morning this was already quite clear to us. So full clothes on, for me this meant also wearing rain suit and that came really into …
As I was already on our summer place at Sauvo, this day was going to be a short one. Only 59km including detour to visit a friend in Kuusisto. During the Mid Summer festival we enjoyed some bikes: At the Viking Line ferry terminal I met my cousin Tommi to …
Start of the journey is approaching fast, only five days to go. Bike has now gone through maintenance, washed and ready to ride. Washing riding gears is also mainly done, so only thing to do is packing. All items have been listed and gathered already into one place. Tires for …
As of today, plan for the trip has been pretty much done. Trial packing is behind, all gears have been selected and final bike maintenance is early next week. First part is short visit to Alps and especially unpaved roads over there with some friends, like this. After this I …
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