Now it was time for the part with my family involved, swimming, sunbathing, sightseeing and relaxing. All the usual vacation stuff. First couple of days were just pure seeing where we were. Walking around by the beach and city. We also rented a car for few days, just to get …
Early morning wakeup, packing, breakfast and on the road again. No special target for this day either except to get into hotel on time. I decided to drive non-toll road A-7 as that looked to be quite fast anyhow. During the drive only noticeable thing was around Valencia, forest fires …
Had a small breakfast at the hotel, packed and to the bike. I got the bike parked behind the hotel and as expected it was right there where I left it. Still muddy and all… To start with I was not planning to take the fastest route from Bardonecchia, but …
After having breakfast at 07:00 we started packing the bikes and back on the road again. For this day we set target to be away from autobahn and drive smaller roads into Italy and see how far we would get. And we did get into really nice roads on the …
Start of the journey is approaching fast, only five days to go. Bike has now gone through maintenance, washed and ready to ride. Washing riding gears is also mainly done, so only thing to do is packing. All items have been listed and gathered already into one place. Tires for …
As of today, plan for the trip has been pretty much done. Trial packing is behind, all gears have been selected and final bike maintenance is early next week. First part is short visit to Alps and especially unpaved roads over there with some friends, like this. After this I …
As a series of post and things to clear out, collection of visa requirements for possible countries to visit from citizen of Finland point of view. Morocco No visa required for tourist trips. Finland has official representation in the country: http://www.finlande.ma. Mauritania Visa is required and can be acquired through …
My original plan for 2012 summer was to do a short two weeks trip to Crimea, which was my target for this year as well, but missed it because I could not get into Abkhazia. But as time goes by this evolved into a bigger trip and now target is …
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