Atlantic Coast Highway, Norway
Morocco
Stelvio Pass, Austria
Morocco
Transfăgărășan - All your favourite corners in one road
Lærdal Mountain Pass, Norway
I left Garmisch Partenkirchen early on the Monday morning. I wasn’t the last to leave the Motorrad Days site, but not far off. The tearing down of the site itself was well underway and the town was a different place without the continuous hum of BMW after BMW passing through. It was actually quite a peaceful place.
There are a lot of hazards on the roads, deer, X5 drivers but I didn’t expect a sinkhole. Didn’t see anything when I got there.
There are two things to remember when arriving in France and heading east through Belgium.
Services on Belgium highways do not have ATM machines.
All the restrooms require €0.70 to use.
Trans Euro Trail
Switzerland was really the last part of the trip, the plan now was to just get back to the UK as soon as possible. So far I had tried to stay off toll roads, but the quickest way back was the Swiss and French autoroutes. It was past midnight when I reached France, and I hadn’t booked anywhere to stay for the night and as I also wanted to get an early start in the morning it didn’t really seem worth it.
You would think that after losing my CamelBak at the start of thus trip nearly two months earlier I would make sure that all my luggage was secured to the back of the bike. But, oh no. I was riding around Lake Laguna in Switzerland checking the sites and taking pictures, my boots were (or so I thought) wedged in between my luggage on the back. It was a built up area with lots of traffic so I was not going fast.
I returned back to Italy the same as I arrived, via catamaran. Reached Pozzallo early Monday morning after an early start. Last night was spent in a McDonald’s until about 03:00 then hanging around a closed pavement cafe until I could board the ferry at about 05:30. I didn’t want to hang around too long so only planned a couple of stops in Italy. First was at Pompeii, where I booked in at a campsite opposite the ruins.
