Gremlin Serbia
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Four of us, bikers from Belgrade, Serbia, has decided to spend few days in Alps, early September.While planning, we carefully looked weather forecast on Accuweather and Via Michelin site for days, and decided to go on 9. Sept as weather forecast was almost perfect. Accuweather was accurate almost in hour by hour forecast, and it's our recommendation.
Decided to vist two best Alp passes in Austria: Gros Glockner and Nockalm national park, and then move to the west and visit passes on Dolomites in Cortina d'Ampezzo and Val Gardena areas.
We booked rooms via www.booking.com in advance, first three nights we slept in this lovely hotel in the sweet village of Birnbaum:
http://www.edelweisshof.com
The hotel owned by young Russian couple is good base for touring Austrian-Italian Alps, good rooms,clean and nice, good food, solid service, we paid just 35 Euros per single room with half board.
Next two nights we spent in Italy, in Villabassa, in this hotel:
http://www.weiherbad.com
Also our warm recommendation, clean and nice, excellent food, staff very helpful and biker friendly. We paid 40 Euros per single room with breakfast.
The crew was: Slavisha on Bmw K 1200 GT, Oleg and Gremlin, each on Bmw R 1200 GS Adventure, and Miles on his hyper-exotic Honda DN-01 who is abolute hero of the trip, as he followed us everywhere with his "Shark" looking scooter of just 650 ccm, and drove 800 kms in one day.
During our trip, on Faaker See lake was annual Harley Davidson gathering, so there were a loads of various HD's everywhere.
1. day
We went that Thursday in 6 o'clock in the morning from Belgrade, with idea to get to Birnbaum before dark, we had to travel from Serbia, via Croatia and Slovenia, to Austria - almost 800 km of boring highway. After less then 100 km, we went in rain shower just like accuweather predicted.
We had rain suits ready, get'em on fast, but it was short and then we had sunny day almost till the end of that day and arrival to Birnbaum hotel. At the border almost nobody asked anything, looks like they do not care about bikers. So, we continued fast to Slovenia, and decide to have a stop to buy highway vignettes and for meal and coffee at a first gas station in Slovenia. Time for old good Slovenian Kranjske saussages:
It's never bad to look at a map, despite it's highway. Oleg and Miles:
A sparrow collects remains from tables:
After short stop we continued via Kranjska Gora and Tarvisio to our place. In Tarvisio, we decided to have a
coffee in this small nice Alpine village, of course there
was plenty of HD bikes:
We realized too late the prosciuttos are plastic:
After few hours and light rain, we arrived on our hotel in Birnbaum:
And nice view around hotel:
2. day
We decided to visit Nockalm strasse national park, one of the best and most popular in Austria. (http://www.nockalmstrasse.at/)
On a foothill, we met some good old Africa Twins:
Beautifull sunny weather, a lot of bikes around, mostly HD:
A fight of a man and technology - Oleg & maps vs Garmin:
A few typical nice Austrian Alpine views:
Ticket costs 8 Euro for bike:
And beautiful nature is beggining:
Area is heaven for bikers:
Oleg and Gremlin on the top:
Oleg and Adventures:
Oleg ready to go:
Some nice HDs, who likes them:
In a local shop, among others there is a sausaage of a strange name. Didn't taste it, we are still young boys.
Gremlin on a top:
Gremlin's new bike codenamed "Wooden Adventure"
Gremlin and babies on the exit from national park:
And again nice Austrian postcards:
To be continued
Decided to vist two best Alp passes in Austria: Gros Glockner and Nockalm national park, and then move to the west and visit passes on Dolomites in Cortina d'Ampezzo and Val Gardena areas.
We booked rooms via www.booking.com in advance, first three nights we slept in this lovely hotel in the sweet village of Birnbaum:
http://www.edelweisshof.com
The hotel owned by young Russian couple is good base for touring Austrian-Italian Alps, good rooms,clean and nice, good food, solid service, we paid just 35 Euros per single room with half board.
Next two nights we spent in Italy, in Villabassa, in this hotel:
http://www.weiherbad.com
Also our warm recommendation, clean and nice, excellent food, staff very helpful and biker friendly. We paid 40 Euros per single room with breakfast.
The crew was: Slavisha on Bmw K 1200 GT, Oleg and Gremlin, each on Bmw R 1200 GS Adventure, and Miles on his hyper-exotic Honda DN-01 who is abolute hero of the trip, as he followed us everywhere with his "Shark" looking scooter of just 650 ccm, and drove 800 kms in one day.
During our trip, on Faaker See lake was annual Harley Davidson gathering, so there were a loads of various HD's everywhere.
1. day
We went that Thursday in 6 o'clock in the morning from Belgrade, with idea to get to Birnbaum before dark, we had to travel from Serbia, via Croatia and Slovenia, to Austria - almost 800 km of boring highway. After less then 100 km, we went in rain shower just like accuweather predicted.
We had rain suits ready, get'em on fast, but it was short and then we had sunny day almost till the end of that day and arrival to Birnbaum hotel. At the border almost nobody asked anything, looks like they do not care about bikers. So, we continued fast to Slovenia, and decide to have a stop to buy highway vignettes and for meal and coffee at a first gas station in Slovenia. Time for old good Slovenian Kranjske saussages:
It's never bad to look at a map, despite it's highway. Oleg and Miles:
A sparrow collects remains from tables:
After short stop we continued via Kranjska Gora and Tarvisio to our place. In Tarvisio, we decided to have a
coffee in this small nice Alpine village, of course there
was plenty of HD bikes:
We realized too late the prosciuttos are plastic:
After few hours and light rain, we arrived on our hotel in Birnbaum:
And nice view around hotel:
2. day
We decided to visit Nockalm strasse national park, one of the best and most popular in Austria. (http://www.nockalmstrasse.at/)
On a foothill, we met some good old Africa Twins:
Beautifull sunny weather, a lot of bikes around, mostly HD:
A fight of a man and technology - Oleg & maps vs Garmin:
A few typical nice Austrian Alpine views:
Ticket costs 8 Euro for bike:
And beautiful nature is beggining:
Area is heaven for bikers:
Oleg and Gremlin on the top:
Oleg and Adventures:
Oleg ready to go:
Some nice HDs, who likes them:
In a local shop, among others there is a sausaage of a strange name. Didn't taste it, we are still young boys.
Gremlin on a top:
Gremlin's new bike codenamed "Wooden Adventure"
Gremlin and babies on the exit from national park:
And again nice Austrian postcards:
To be continued
