This coming summer the adventure will be one of a kind. Nothing like the journeys before to Spain and Creek. This journey is called ‘Around Black and Caspian Sea 2010’. Plan is to drive from Finland through Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria to Turkey where there will …
Just end of last week I rode an SS2000 ride (2,000 documented miles in under 48 hours) when coming from Germany to home. Did all the paperwork during the weekend and send them over for approval into IBA Finland on Monday and was really surprised when I got mail this …
On the morning I checked out from the hotel and dropped all the luggage into reception before leaving to work. We had successful day and managed to get everything done by 14:00 so this meant early start for my planned SS2000 and final home coming trip. Just quick walk to …
On the morning I just relaxed at the hotel and read e-mails, I had a scheduled meeting at 11:30 with a customer so this was not a fully vacation day anymore… At 11:00 I checked out from the Hotel Mennicken in Würselen near Aachen, which was a very nice small …
This day had lazy start. Plan was to start driving SS1000 Iron Butt ride from Split / Croatia to Aachen / Germany. Same time at the breakfast room there was a group of Swedish people and they were really hard on discussing the one Finnish bike out on the hotel’s …
This was just excellent day! What a drive! Day started at 10:00 local time by leaving the hotel at Montenegro and heading towards Split / Croatia. Soon after I left from hotel TomTom made it to the map and started showing directions. At that point it showed 312 kilometers …
Today’s plan was to drive from Ioannina / Greece to Petrovac / Montenegro. Day started ~09:00 and since it was only 21 degrees out, I decided to drive with all Gore-Tex clothes and take them out if it becomes too hot. First trick on the day was to get TomTom …
We started at 11:00 from our Arkadia Hotel at Zakynthos, escorted by family to the airport and looked that they got through the check-in. After that headed to the ferry from Zakynthos to Killini, ferry was about to leave at 13:00. All ready to roll, my TomTom had direct co-ordinates …
Day 1 Our first driving day started with SS1000 ride which we started from Tallinn at 00:36. Then just heading down Via Baltica to Riga, Kaunas, Bialystok, Lublin, Svidnik, Debrecen and Oradea. Did not have much surprises on the way except the fact that driving through eastern Europe is a …
As before, we will escape from cold and rainy Finnish summer and head for the southern Europe. We have reserved ferry tickets from Helsinki to Tallinn on the evening 2nd of July and start driving as soon the ferry is in Tallinn. This time our trip will take us to …
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