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Ah yes, I think someone told me that before but I'd forgotten. Zebrugge out, Rotterdam in.

 

Still work in progress but this looks like the option to explore in detail for getting to the start point. The Newcastle option was longer both in time and riding miles.

 

Yes, me too! That cuts out a lot of riding for us on the way up.

 

Actually, one of the draws for taking the western route was that I know you and Hubaxe might be on the way. One of the side-benefits of the trip, that I hadn't considered before I first posted about it, is the potential opportunity to meet a few of the people from the forum along the way.

I haven't mentioned it before, because I wanted to talk to my mate first, but once we have a route fixed with dates and locations I'll publish it with an open invitation for anyone to come along for as much of the ride as they'd like or just to catch up for a beer if we're in your neighbourhood.

 

Thanks, I was thinking there's probably someone there who will be able to deal with my query in English, Norwegians having a reputation as being a well-educated lot. I'll drop them a line this week and see if it holds as an option. I figure if they drive the trucks down they must drive them back again, and maybe some bikers take a return trip. I'll find out.

Now I have a tentative route going north I can start to add more details, like ferry/flight schedules, costs etc. to see how we can actually put the hops together. My timings so far are pure journey times with no consideration for embarking/disembarking, hanging around in terminals and all that fun stuff. If the truck things comes off I'll also need to figure how that affects our necessary arrival time at Lakselv, or delayed start from Oslo.

Schedules and prices could change between now and the actual trip but we can sort out any adjustments nearer the time and the costs will still be a good indication for our budgeting.

 

It'll probably be a while before we book anything up but I'll let you know when we do, then let's see if we can sort out some beers!

 

I certainly will.

 

Yeah, I haven't had any enthusiasm to look at the consequences of the backward step we've taken with Brexit. I'm sure it's going add more paperwork, and potentially more cost.

 

Well would you look at that. If you ride due south from the top of Germany (Hamburg-ish) then you end up here, on the Austrian/Italian border.

 

It's on my bucket list, as it should be on eveyone's.

 

I saw in passing, while I was looking up Stelvio things on the net, that the road from Davos is a good one so I'll map that out later.

 

Anyone got any good tips or advice for riding in Germany?