Ride down to Bulgaria and back June 2016

Gents

At the moment have lots on as just started a new job! Plus getting married in three months time plus my bees are about to swarm so please bear with me.

Here is my email address if I have missed anyone out
[email protected] and phone number
07722556480

Looking at going middle of June and looking at been away for 18-21 days. Will be emailing everyone this weekend.

Cheers



Will be meeting Brian to start planning routes for sat nav plus a few beers too.

It would be good if any of you are free 23/07/15 for the after wedding pig roast and drinks so we can meet all planning on coming on this trip.


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Been thinking about this. I can see a bag full of question coming up.

The way down. There is as many way to get there as their are people going. Down through France, Picking up F1 hotel's on the way. Cross at the tunnel in to Italy. The tunnel is 50 euro's one way for a bike. Then Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and Bulgaria.

I know of an over night in Dover round the £10 a night. The idea is go down the day before. Stay over night in Dover. Catch an early morning crossing on a ferry, round the 7.30 mark. Then ride down. That will give you a full day on the road, to get you as far south as you can get in one day.

Let me know what you think.
John933
 
John933 said:
Been thinking about this. I can see a bag full of question coming up.

The way down. There is as many way to get there as their are people going. Down through France, Picking up F1 hotel's on the way. Cross at the tunnel in to Italy. The tunnel is 50 euro's one way for a bike. Then Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and Bulgaria.

I know of an over night in Dover round the £10 a night. The idea is go down the day before. Stay over night in Dover. Catch an early morning crossing on a ferry, round the 7.30 mark. Then ride down. That will give you a full day on the road, to get you as far south as you can get in one day.

Let me know what you think.
John933
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Doing it that way means your "early start" will be about 9.30 am local time from the terminal. Personally if I were travelling down to Dover the day before I would cross into France and stay there instead. That way you really can make start, I have always found an hour in the morning is worth 2 in the afternoon so an extra 2 hours in the morning should see you well into your journey by lunchtime. Sounds a great trip though-enjoy.

John
 
John933 said:
Been thinking about this. I can see a bag full of question coming up.

The way down. There is as many way to get there as their are people going. Down through France, Picking up F1 hotel's on the way. Cross at the tunnel in to Italy. The tunnel is 50 euro's one way for a bike. Then Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and Bulgaria.

I know of an over night in Dover round the £10 a night. The idea is go down the day before. Stay over night in Dover. Catch an early morning crossing on a ferry, round the 7.30 mark. Then ride down. That will give you a full day on the road, to get you as far south as you can get in one day.

Let me know what you think.
John933
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Agree with that John. Not sure where everybody lives but assuming we aren't all darn sarf, Dover may be a fair ride for some people. Certainly is for me oop north... not that long days bother me , I'm thinking more of the bikes with pillions.
There will be as many ideas for how/where to start as there are routes down there but I dare say it will sort out in the end.
 
steadysteve said:
Agree with that John. Not sure where everybody lives but assuming we aren't all darn sarf, Dover may be a fair ride for some people. Certainly is for me oop north... not that long days bother me , I'm thinking more of the bikes with pillions.
There will be as many ideas for how/where to start as there are routes down there but I dare say it will sort out in the end.
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I can see what you are saying. But if we all don't start off in one big group. It's going to be bittie getting there. Some going one way other's going another. Half the fun is getting to know new face's on the way down. Any way let find out how many are going to have problem getting to Dover. For our friends who live in the land of the frying Mar's bar. My question is. How do you usually get to main land Europe? The other thing is the Dover crossing is going to cost a lot less than going across the north sea. Don't you have to buy a cabin as well? What's the price of the run down to the channel, even factoring in an over nigh on the way? Hell it look's like we are trying to solve a problem, that at the moment it's not known if we have one. Let first get a list of how many is going. Then look at booking the first night at a hotel. After finding out how far people are prepared to ride in a day. with a early morning start, 500 mile's in a day is about the max I should think.
John933
 
John it's early days yet as still trying to get information from all as we all have different abilities of riding and ages some folks are retired and two up. Some what to hotel others camping I know we can't please all but will try and accommodate everyone's needs but there comes a point where it's not feasible, a route will be planed for going down one way and back home another way. By preferred way is for anyone coming from up north/Ireland to stop off at my house then all meet up in Dover for the Chunnel (hate boats) we start off as a group and stay as a group plus we go as fast as our slowest rider.


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Agent 24 you may wish to have a natter with our returning friend Wapping who has organised lots of European wanders, he plans a route which gets everyone to where they need to be each night, sends it out via Dropbox then all riders upload it to their gps which allows everyone to ride at their own pace, stop when they want without worrying about keeping up, if you know all this stuff anyway just ignore me.
Have a great trip.
John.
 
I quite like the sound of this trip, although I don't have "dropbox" (whatever that is :nenau ) and only a tom tom (crap) satnav :rob

Although I'm sure my old 1100 will be fine for the trip. :moped:
 
John933 said:
Been thinking about this. I can see a bag full of question coming up.

The way down. There is as many way to get there as their are people going. Down through France, Picking up F1 hotel's on the way. Cross at the tunnel in to Italy. The tunnel is 50 euro's one way for a bike. Then Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and Bulgaria.

I know of an over night in Dover round the £10 a night. The idea is go down the day before. Stay over night in Dover. Catch an early morning crossing on a ferry, round the 7.30 mark. Then ride down. That will give you a full day on the road, to get you as far south as you can get in one day.

Let me know what you think.
John933
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Sounds an interesting trip which I may well be interested in. Went to Croatia with a UKGser group some years ago and enjoyed it thoroughly. Probably about 15 bikes went which all met up at Dover. Some then went off to Poland from Germany (never did understand that?) and the rest then rode on to Croatia in smaller groups meeting up each evening. Some camped and some stayed at Hotels. Seemed to work OK. Some great roads once you get down to Slovenia (as well as course as those in the Alps and Dolomites) - and it's fun to try and avoid the traffic cops! However I'd think you'd be talking about a month to do this ride (there and back) without just hammering it all the way.
 
I'd be interested in joining this, any dates as yet? I'm currently not working so pretty relaxed about when it is!
I've done Bulgaria a few times, still loads more to see though!

JC
 
No fixed date as yet but Mid To late June seems to be favoured

Norrie
 
This sounds like an interesting trip...If you ignore our accommodation choices, there are some interesting spots we visited on the way & in Bulgaria...a beautiful country...rough route to whet the appetites!


 
Ok looking at doing this trip around 18/06/16 will be going via chunnel and looking to take in the following places (please feel free to add/take out parts). I will looking at taking 3 weeks off work for this trip.

Here is what I have looked at so far

France to
Colditz to
Dresdon to
Prauge to
Brno to
Kosice to
Cluj-Napoca to
Transfagarasan pass to
Bucharest to
Veliko Tarnovo

Just a taster for now gents

Remember that all who would like to come on the trip plus any other tossers are welcome to our after wedding pig roast on 23/07/15 at
Eastington Park
Eastington
Near Stone House
Gloucestershire
GL10 3RY

Just let me know if your coming

Cheers for now

Agent 2494
 
Me and the Mrs are interested, would prefer to ride down and back. Dates, duration, costs etc will be deciding factors but would like to be included in any updates😁
 
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