Choice of painting the windows or have a cheeky blast on the bike. Only 3 days, so what to do....Cornwall, Scotland or how about....
So in 30 mins Chunnel and hotel booked, maps checked ,all looks a doable plan, Autoroute past Reims, then meander cross country to St Die.
Some Le Mans traffic
Some cafe culture
Missed the thunderstorms
To arrive at Le Regal hotel in St Die, parked up in the moto garage which we slummed with some sort of fast beetle
Then one of the reasons we love this hotel
Next morning found a cracking patisserie in St Die
Finally off for some of this
Bit of that
More of this
Chatted to the owner of this
Obviously lunch
More views
Before back into St Die for a light snack
Vosges Mountains are a wonderful playground, many of the roads are used in the Rally de Alsace, so it's worth going off the usual Route de Cretes and Ballon (Col du Wettstein , de la Schlucht, les trois epis ) racked up 300 miles in the area and enjoyed every twisty one.
Time to come home, so on the way to the patisserie the next morning we stopped for fuel in the local Avia. Nice chap at the desk says in franglish that he has a bike, a ktm that he does some off roading with. Along with his truck. On the rally he organises in morocco....left the petrol dispensing to the missus and takes us to the toy shed..
Bike was nice, truck was epic, just prepping it for the rally in October. Lovely bloke offered coffee, croissant all to have a chat about bikes, enduros, Dakar, his rally, etc we'd still be there now
We're now running late, stopping off in a village for a swift coffee
And a local wanders out look at my mates Aprilia....he's got an MV F4 .....do we want a coffee?
By now we're very late, so sat nav set for 'Go Home' , cruise at 90, and back home for 7pm.
3 days, 1300 miles, great roads, great food and met lots of interesting people.
Motorcycles. Good fun aren't they.
Yep window painting tomorrow ....
So in 30 mins Chunnel and hotel booked, maps checked ,all looks a doable plan, Autoroute past Reims, then meander cross country to St Die.
Some Le Mans traffic
Some cafe culture
Missed the thunderstorms
To arrive at Le Regal hotel in St Die, parked up in the moto garage which we slummed with some sort of fast beetle
Then one of the reasons we love this hotel
Next morning found a cracking patisserie in St Die
Finally off for some of this
Bit of that
More of this
Chatted to the owner of this
Obviously lunch
More views
Before back into St Die for a light snack
Vosges Mountains are a wonderful playground, many of the roads are used in the Rally de Alsace, so it's worth going off the usual Route de Cretes and Ballon (Col du Wettstein , de la Schlucht, les trois epis ) racked up 300 miles in the area and enjoyed every twisty one.
Time to come home, so on the way to the patisserie the next morning we stopped for fuel in the local Avia. Nice chap at the desk says in franglish that he has a bike, a ktm that he does some off roading with. Along with his truck. On the rally he organises in morocco....left the petrol dispensing to the missus and takes us to the toy shed..
Bike was nice, truck was epic, just prepping it for the rally in October. Lovely bloke offered coffee, croissant all to have a chat about bikes, enduros, Dakar, his rally, etc we'd still be there now
We're now running late, stopping off in a village for a swift coffee
And a local wanders out look at my mates Aprilia....he's got an MV F4 .....do we want a coffee?
By now we're very late, so sat nav set for 'Go Home' , cruise at 90, and back home for 7pm.
3 days, 1300 miles, great roads, great food and met lots of interesting people.
Motorcycles. Good fun aren't they.
Yep window painting tomorrow ....
The food looks good!
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