Touring tips

[simondippenhall]

One more travel tip: check your home scanner before departure, for the documents you have wisely decided to scan so that you have a digital copy available on the road in case you lose the original (or, in my case, have left on the scanner! ).

This is why I know the cost of sending a driver's license by DHL to Mali.

 

[The Other PaulG]

As I had no idea what the roads would actually be like, as some did not appear on a Michelin map, I used Google Earth to look at them, particularly those through forests or what seemed to just go across fields.

Had I used Google Earth prior to my recent trip to the Strade Bianche around Siena, I would not have ended up here -

 

[The Other PaulG]

Or, indeed here -

Of course, for us, the trip was none the worse for it, in fact it was hilarious.

 

[Wapping]

Had I used Google Earth prior to my recent trip to the Strade Bianche around Siena, I would not have ended up here -

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That looks much like me on parts of the days out I enjoyed on the Oder. That, unmade farm tracks, pave, sand and torture like sections made from old concrete railway sleepers. Then, super smooth cycle paths…. Funny place, Germany…. Though I am learning the difference between a ‘foot way’ (which can be anything) and a cycle path.

All hail the mighty Brompton!