We are planning attend Jänkhällä Jytisee 2007 and on the way have one more SS1000 Iron Butt ride. Planned route is this: Start from Espoo 16th of August 10:00, then to Jyväskylä, Turku, Vaasa, Oulu, Kuusamo and end in Sodankylä where we meet some local bikers and continue to Saariselkä. In …
Our third driving day started from Duisburg after good night sleep in Hotel Novotel. Our goal was to take it slowly and drive whole day and next night to get to the Viking Line Isabella from Stockholm to Turku. We finally arrived at 06:00 to the ferry terminal after driving …
Second driving day over, we decided to cut some corners and started from Porto, Portugal and drove directly into Duisburg, Germany using this route: This route gave us 2339 kilometers driving and took 35 hours to drive! We just slept quickly for hour or so on the truck stop …
First driving day over, we managed to drive 847 kilometers through Spain and Portugal! Now we are a bit thinking to replan tomorrow’s route, but final decisions will be made on tomorrow morning during the breakfast. Aim is not to do full round through Portugal and Spain, but cut from …
Our rest in Rota, Spain is almost over, tomorrow morning we start the journey back to home. My family will fly home and we start driving rest of our journey back to Espoo, Finland. Weather in Rota has been excellent, we have been most of our time on the beach …
From Almendralejo our only goal was to be in the Jerez de la Frontera airport when my family was arriving at 10:25. We managed to drive the last kilometers with good speed and arrived at the airport 10:15 where we found out that the plane from Finland had arrived earlier …
When leaving Andorra TomTom was telling us that we are going to get lot of kilometers for this day. We decided to take the middle route instead of following the coast line which was our original plan. We drove 978 kilometers during this day from Andorra to Almendralejo, Spain. Only issue …
From Aubagne we started driving towards Andorra, but on the half way of the trip we started already changing our route a bit, instead of following the original plan we told the TomTom to take us directly to Andorra. This took us to really nice mountain roads with turns that …
After a good night sleep we started driving again, this time we decided that we take slowly and move to small roads. Ended up driving only 534 kilometers during the second day, but especially the first 140 kilometers from Piacenza to Genoa were really nice small roads. From there on …
Time to summarize our day trips. Our first day trip was 2656 kilometers according to Microsoft Autoroute 2007, but there is one possible error (point number 4) where our gas station receipt and GPS coordinates are giving us an location which is not really on our route… need to figure …
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