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Europe motorcycle tour 2002
Baltic countries, alps, Germany and the Wacken festival
Skoll in Helsinki, Finland --
The next day was Thursday 25th. We started from the camping site towards Frankfurt where we were supposed to meet Juha, Jenni and Timo. The weather was sunny with some clouds here and there. As our goal for the day was to reach Frankfurt as soon as possible, we rode most of the way on autobahn. Lane...
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Bergie --
Skoll awoke briskly in the morning and started the day by calling to an Ural service station in Wehr, Germany. We heared that it's OK to bring the bike there so our target for the day was set. Also Bergie woke eventually to a call from the Italian Midgardians. We had a small breakfast with the last ...
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Bergie --
The day started like just another day. The sky was somewhat cloudy, but cleared up soon. We had a breakfast at the hotel and started our trip towards Bourg-St. Maurice. I have a feeling I'm starting to repeat myself, but once again the roads were a joy to ride and the landscapes truely beautiful. An...
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Bergie --
The morning came with a cloudy sky. We packed our tent and countinued to Verona. At he first bigger town (Egna - Neumarket) we stopped at a Supermercado to get some breakfast which we ate at a parking lot. The terrain slowly started to be flatter there were still nice twisty roads. After driving by ...
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Bergie --
From Prague we contiued onwards to the Austrian border. The border crossing went swiftly despite having to exchange Finnish Euro coins to the border officials. It is easy to see the power of EU, as after the border everything felt like home.
After some bratwursts in a Gasthof we stopped for the nigh...
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Bergie --
In the morning we attacked the twisty road 11 towards Prague. At places the road had splendid hairpin turns where the Ducati and Triumph really were at their best. The Ural was also doing OK, but with the Russian tyres some of the turns were quite difficult. Scenery was simply splendid with lots of ...
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Bergie --
The star of the morning was the Ural. The previous evening we noticed that we have found the local Tattarisuo (area in Helsinki with lots of car repair etc. places), so we started looking for the velding-place there. In the first place we tried the master didn't speak any english, but guided us to ...
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Bergie --
(Authored by Skoll with Bergie's ed. notes.)
Crossing the borders in Baltia was surprisingly easy and fast. When we arrived at the border of Poland, the queue was longer thn any of us had seen before. In the queue we met some fellow finnish bikers who had been waiting for several hours and weren't e...
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Bergie --
We left Pärnu on monday morning and started the slow
progress towards Riga. The main roads here have very low speed limits,
ranging from 60 to 90 km/h. Of course, anything faster would probably
have been uncomfortable on Skoll's Ural.
The Latvian border went quite swiftly as we were able
to lane s...
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Bergie --
We arrived to wet and dark Tallinn around 10:30pm in Friday, and started the slow and bumpy progress towards Pärnu. The effect of EU funding on the Via Baltica (E67) road we're apparent, as road was under construction in many places. Unfortunately for us this mean removed tarmac and lots of pot...
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Bergie --
A Linda Line ship is sinking in the Baltic and our ferry was called to the rescue operation. We're still waiting in the Tallink terminal, as we will the transferred to another ship.
We were not informed of the disaster by the ferry line, but in this age of mobile phones, finding it out was easy. A g...
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Bergie --
The first travel day has been busy with preparations, as we had to build first version of the travel portal, and manage all practical issues for the trip.
We have agreed to meet at the Tallink ferry terminal at 4pm, although Rambo already managed to forget that and tried to book that time for arrivi...
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