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I'll kick off...

Well, it was a while ago, but worth sharing, I think.
It was supposed to be a two up trip, but the night before departure I found out that the girlfriend hadn't been as faithful as I would like. So chucked her and her crap out of my house and decided to go alone.

I had made a booking on the train from Den Bosch to Allessandria, just north of Genua. I was going to do a tour of Tuscany, after that I had no plan.


Bike on the train (pre Triumph days, I'm afraid),

En route first day.

Pisa.

San Gimignano.

Siena.

Florence

Then I got a message on Faecesbook from a friend who lived in Slovenia "you're so close now, why don't you come and visit?'. So I took a right at Ravenna (having crossed that fantastic mountain range (Tuscan–Emilian Apennines) in between Florence and it) and made for Podhorodc.
View from Trieste.

Piran.

 

Stelvio.


From there home via Switzerland, Eastern France and Luxembourg.

This is where I stayed in Trun, Switzerland. When I got there I was completely soaked. All my wet gear was put in the boiler room, and bone dry by next morning. The bike was parked inside, through the doors you can see on the right hand side of the building.


Colmar, France.



Echternach, Luxemburg.




Not bad for ten days...

 

Cheers! I had to make my way out of Switzerland through tunnels - all the high passes were closed overnight due to snowfall... I did get to do the Stelvio to Davos bit though. Absolutely fantastic!

 

Good idea, Dougie. By the way, you would have loved that run from Stelvio to Davos - perfect road surfaces and long, fast swooping bends!

 

This is the bit just before Davos..

 

That'd be unfair on the Italians...

 

Absolutely. And it's so much easier to connect with folk when you're alone.

 

Not from Den Bosch anymore, Nikki. It does from Düsseldorf, I think.

 

That looks great, Dougie!