Wine & Pleasure -
. In the end i am happy that i came back unharmed. But we will bring this tour to end end. Together!
Italy - especially the south of Italy is awesome.
This tour is over - at least for my lovely Hornet. I crashed the bike with no reason and still don't know why.
The good news is: I am ok - thanks to the good protection. Bad news: i might have to kiss my bike good bye. I will know more by tomorrow morning...
Sightseeing in Hamburg due to the cancelled trip to Verona. But we won't give up!
This is our train to Verona – what is missing?
Yepp: OUR MOTORBIKES!
When we came to Hamburg we first had some trouble to find the Train station, due to heavy roadworks in this area. After this there was a big delay to load the vehicles. Finally we got the information, that the person in charge to load the train is not showing up due to an accident). As a result of that: The Motorbikes are not allowed to get on the train! Because of that we will not go to Italy tonight! Tomorrow we will decide how to …
This morning summer startet with 78°F and now the preparations for our tour can start. Parts are ready – this morning i tested my camera on the RAM-Mount and must admit: I like it!
First i was convinced that the mounting is too big, however now i can say that the RAM mount is just stable and very mature. Wih the mounting the camera can be adjusted easily and now the lens is where i like to have it: on top of the dashboard!
Tonight i will get some new tires from Cathi and after this my Hornet is ready …
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Terrible Touristic Airlines
After this short week i remeber why i do not like the touristic airplanes:
Somehow everything is more hectic, noisy and stressful compared to the regular flights. There are significantly more children on these airlines and we had the blessing of one strong smelling specimen sitting in front of us, which had to use all the available throw-up bags.
The Pilot as did the best job in finding every single pothole and he landed the plane not straight, but very hard on the runway. But anyway, we arrived and that all that matters.
Accomodation in Maspalomas
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The preparation for the Tour is ongoing: I got my TomTom and Silke a Tripy for navigation.
I tried forever to connect the Tripy to the iPad with all possible and impossible Apps – without success. The reason is, that we can plan and change our tour with the Tripy. Finally i found this little USB Stick. Simply to be connected to the iPad / iPhone and now we can easily exchange data between the i-World and regular PCs, but more important the Tripy!
Money well spent…
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Silke booked at the weekend the train to Verona. Now there is no escape for our vacation anymore. Italy you better be prepared for us!
Really good: The new train provider is way cheaper than the previous offer from the Deutsche Bahn. We could even already chose the menu for having dinner in the train. The choice was about Beaf, Fish or vegetarian. For breakfast we could go either for the “quick-and-dirty” standard of the gourmet version. We decided for the gourmet-breakfast. In total this will cost us less than 600 Euro for dinner, breakfast and transport of 2 people …
It is wet and cold outside – so the best time to make our plans for summer vacation on the motorbikes. We already agreed on the country and now we have to do a little bit of finetuning on the tour itself.
This year we will end up in Italy and enjoy life on our own motorbikes. No rentals, no group, just Silke and myself as it should be.
Nothing is fixed so far – except Italy, and it seems that we have enough time to make our way down to Sicily. The tour is changing on a daily …