London - Slovakia 2008.....

Thanks for your comments guys and glad you enjoyed the report. I've just finished editing a short video so will post it here once completed...:thumb
 
a couple of questions [if i may]'
what were the roads like.
prices against the £.
were you welcomed as a biker.
thank you.:thumb2
 
Ash said:
a couple of questions [if i may]'
what were the roads like.
prices against the £.
were you welcomed as some a biker.
thank you.:thumb2
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Hi Ash,
The main roads through to Slovakia ( Germany, Czech Republic and Poland) were fine but stray off to some B roads and they started to deteriorate. Believe it or not the worst road of the whole trip was in fact the Stelvio pass but on the whole they were fine.
Prices against the £ were very good. Slovakia still use their own currency (krowns) and currently the exchange rate is around 32Krowns to the pound. We didn't spend any more than 19 Euros for 1 nights camping in any of the sites and the most expensive hotel we stayed in was the Enzian in Landack, Austria which was 69 Euros each including evening meal and breakfast. I never managed to get more than 30 Euros of fuel in the tank (GSA), so all in all a very reasonable trip....
Every where we went we were made to feel very welcome. All through Austria, Germany and Italy there are signs welcoming bikers to hotels, bars and restaurants. :thumb
 
Shadowfist said:
Hi Ash,
The main roads through to Slovakia ( Germany, Czech Republic and Poland) were fine but stray off to some B roads and they started to deteriorate. Believe it or not the worst road of the whole trip was in fact the Stelvio pass but on the whole they were fine.
Prices against the £ were very good. Slovakia still use their own currency (krowns) and currently the exchange rate is around 32Krowns to the pound. We didn't spend any more than 19 Euros for 1 nights camping in any of the sites and the most expensive hotel we stayed in was the Enzian in Landack, Austria which was 69 Euros each including evening meal and breakfast. I never managed to get more than 30 Euros of fuel in the tank (GSA), so all in all a very reasonable trip....
Every where we went we were made to feel very welcome. All through Austria, Germany and Italy there are signs welcoming bikers to hotels, bars and restaurants. :thumb
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thank you very much.
it looks a cracking place [added to list of places to visit]:bow:bow:thumb
 
Great Report

Looks like you had a great trip. I am passing through a few of those areas in a few weeks, you don't have your Zumo track log as a attachment, specifically the location of the campsites / Hotels.?
 
Great

Hi Chris
really good pics and ride report
we only did 3336 miles :augie
but went to alot of the same places
just clocked 20k in 16 months
that last comment about doing a RTW same for us
just cant keep off the bike
look forward to seeing you both soon some where
take care
Gaz n Ruthie :thumb
 
Hi Rich,
There is a mixture of pics from my Cannon Ixus 7.0 as well as Erika's Cannon EOS D400 digital....All the video clips were from my Cannon Ixus....:thumb
 
Worried about your weight??

You shouldn't have stopped doing Kung Fu!! :D
 
Great report.

If you do decide to jack it all in and do a RTW, I'll look after your mrs for you. :thumb

(Just seen "kung fu expert" comments. Oops!)
 
Top pics mate, looks like some great places you visited.
Perhaps a trip along the same lines could be set up for a few mates to join some time. We could talk about that, cheers mate speak soon.:thumb2
 
G4 said:
Top pics mate, looks like some great places you visited.
Perhaps a trip along the same lines could be set up for a few mates to join some time. We could talk about that, cheers mate speak soon.:thumb2
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Hi mate,

I'd be well up for that.. Can't stay off the bike at the moment........:blast

We'll discuss it over a beer at the East Midlands do.:thumb
 
Shadowfist said:
The following day we needed to get the rear tyre replaced and had to go to Vols (just outside Innsbruk:blast) to find another Tourance.......
After that we headed off towards Germany and after 60 miles found an absoutely fantastic campsite in a very picturesque valley so decided to stop for the day and set up camp.........:D






We decided to put the tarp up that night as we were told the weather would be turning to shit overnight......:(


How right they were, we headed off the next morning in pi**ing down rain that stayed with us for most of the day.



As we only had summer clothes with us we headed for the shops in Germany to buy a fleece each as the cold started to get to us.... I don't know what was going on but everywhere was closed.... It was 1100 on a Friday. We finally ended up in a place called Seitz and a BMW dealer who were great, hot coffee and 2 fleeces later we headed off for France....

We stayed near Calais in a crap hotel for our final night and boarded the train for blighty at 1100 the following day..
We both had a fantastic time and Erika has already stated that she wants to do it again but on 2 bikes............. So only need to decide where our next venture is going to take us.......

I have already planted the seed for jacking it all in in a year or two, selling up and fecking off on a RTW trip.......
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Lovely report. Fantastic to read that Erika wants to do it on her bike. We did it on 2 bikes earlier this year, and want to go that way again asap. Loved Slovakia! Perhaps we might bump into you at Lumb Farm.
 
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