On The Road

As an other fairly well known motorcycle traveller always says: "Another day, another adventure". This was definitely true for today. As our host did not offer breakfast, we had purchased some small things on the previous evening. After we were done, we packed up and got ready.Yesterday evening, Chris had checked his post at the F650 forum before going to bed. Less than one hour after he had created the post, already three users had answered and provided suggestions on how to fix the problem. In…

After arriving in the rain the previous evening, we woke up to cloudy but dry weather the next morning. The breakfast was the first station of the day. It became obvious that we were no longer in Germany when we had a look at the selection of sausage and cheese which was offered. 90% meat, 10% cheese. As a consequence, there was quite a lot of variation available.After finishing the breakfast, we went on to mount our luggage on our bikes again. The weather still was…

Today we got up at 6am, hat breakfast till 7:30 and were ready to go at 8:15am. Unfortunately, it still took us some more time to get going. On the previous day, Chris had noticed that we messed up the pretty clear instructions for an oil change. As a consequence, the oil level of the Black Beauty was too high. The plan was to remove the excess oil by using a syringe. Also, on the previous evening, we had read that it is recommended for motorcyclists to…

Starting a trip certainly isn't the easiest part of it. Initially, we had planned to start our trip on the previous day. However, it was forecasted that the weather during the weekend would be dreadful: single digit temperatures, windy, heavy rainfall. The outlook for Sunday was better than the one for Saturday. Therefore we decided to postpone the start by one day. This turned out to be a wise decision, as the weather on Saturday truly was lousy. Also, we still found a whole load of things…