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Europe motorcyle tour 2005
Rambo in Espoo, Finland --
Somebody at Garmin is in for a beating: saved tracks do not retain timestamps for the track points (at least on the eTrex), only the active track contains these times. This totally wrecks my plans for many cool things I was going to do with the track data (including detailed analysis of my lap on th...
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Rambo in Älvsjö (Stockholm), Sweden --
Today we've been riding after, in and before a stormfront moving trough Sweden. getting thoroughly soaked many times over. At one stop I booked us a room at the cheapest hotel bookings.se had available near Stockholm, Hotel Västberga (59N17'56.8'', 18E01'02.5''), it's a bit spartan but we only need...
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Rambo in Åstorp, Sweden --
The morning was humid with the thunderstorm that had faded just hours earlier and hot with the early risen sun as we left the hostel, some time later light rain appeared, but by the time we reached next sane place for changing clothes it had gone away and we were almost dry again, so we just got som...
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Rambo in Maribo, Denmark --
Taru got bored of German countryside so we decided to see if Denmark/Sweden is any better, we took a few scenery shortcuts but in general it's been Autobahn for the whole day, though we did make some progress as well.
Once we got on Danish soil we started loooking for accommodation, even in smaller...
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Rambo in Hameln, Germany --
"Russian Pedigree Hamster" (as sold to Manuel in Fawlty Towers) aka rat, in the multiple form has truly gone to the heads of the inhabitants of this town, home to the story of The Pied Piper, there are rat-this and rat-thats for sale just about everywhere, multiple size statues of the piper, statues...
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Rambo in Remscheid, Germany --
Today was also a rest day so to speak, we went to see kennel von den Erzminen where Justus was bred. With a strong sense of deja vu we again took one exit too late on the Autobahn and then the scenery route (it's even marked on maps as such) to the correct place (this also happened when we went to p...
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Rambo in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler (near Bonn), Germany --
Before getting to the main point of the day we had to ride some 200km, parts on B-roads, parts on Autobahn to get to Nürburgringen in time for todays tourist sessions. I had forgot to turn on power for auxiliary systems in the morning so at one point my GPS ran out of batteries and shut down, I hop...
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Rambo in Wissembourg, France --
We left the hotel at around 10:20, then continued on the B-road untill Freiburg, where the tunnel bypass of the city was closed for whatever reason, this led to a huge traffic jam. First we lane-split to the city ramp, then went to a shop to take a break (it was really hot day) and get some food, wh...
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Rambo in Uhldingen-Mühlhofen (near Meersburg), Germany --
In the morning the sky looked so depressing we both put on rain gear right at the gasthaus, of course this prevented any rain from materializing and after sweating for two hours we switched back to lighter clothing, this made rest of the ride much more pleasant.
We have been riding by the Bodensee ...
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Rambo in Bûrs (near Bludenz), Austria --
What is it with this rain ? when we're north, it rains, we go south (where it didn't use to rain), it rains, we got back north (where it didn't rain when we were south) and it rains... Last summer it did not rain on two of the 12 days we were on tour, (which explains the ratio of photos from that tr...
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Rambo in Sta Maria im M, Switzerland --
Tunnel, Tunnel, Tunnel... (etc, sung to the badger song), very descriptive of the first part of our journey towards Passo dello Stelvio, and this was in the normal roads, so the tunnels were quite old and definitely dangerous, especially since locals seem to have no problem overtaking inside a tunne...
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Rambo in Brescia, Italy --
It's weird when on vacation you learn of things much later then usual and often in by chance, today when having dinner and the TV happened to be turned on we saw some rather disturbing imagery from London.
After dinner I've been digging out (with the acting up GPRS connection) as much information o...
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Rambo in Mira (near Venice), Italy --
In the morning we were pleasantly suprised: this hotel did not consider a chocolate wiener/croissant and espresso a nourishing breakfast, of course we had also those but also müsli, regular bread, cheese, juice etc. so this time it was not neccessary to start looking for other forms of nourishment ...
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Rambo in Mira (near Venice), Italy --
Yesterday was dedicated to resting, we just arranged ourselves a place at todays 11:00 tour at the Ducati factory and Museum and had some chow: The ristorante and the pizza place mentioned in previous post are two sides of the same coin, the restaurant side having air conditioning and cloth napkins ...
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Rambo in Pianoro (near Bologna), Italy --
True enough, around 5am a thunderous rainstorm appeared which again woke Taru up, a good thing since we had been drying some stuff up at the balcony, breakfast was at nine after which we packed our bikes (the place has a garage so the rain didn't bother us then) and set out into the medium-heavy ra...
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Rambo in Lana (near Merano), Italy --
We left the camping around 12 after sun the finally had shone enough to this part of the valley to dry of the morning mildew (particularly heavy in these parts) from our tent so that it could be packed away without having to worry about drying it at the first opportunity.
We continued on the road t...
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Rambo in Umhausen, Austria --
This morning we got up to pack our stuff before breakfast, as forecasted the weather was beatifull, with little or no clouds and hot summer sun
Neushwanstein can only be seen inside as a guided tour which was quite a run-trough of the finished parts of the castle, what is finished is certainly impr...
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Rambo in Shwangau (near Füssen), Germany --
After a breakfast and some last-minute organizing we bid farewell to Torben and Katharina, when we packet the bikes it wasn't raining but right after we left yet another medium shower greeted us, we took the B16 towards Füssen and rode almost the distance in alternating drizzle-light-medium rain, o...
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Rambo in Günzburg, Germany --
As stated earlier in the morning it rained, when we left the rain had all but ended, but during our ride to Günzburg we ran into some showers so getting in rain gear in the morning was not a bad idea
When about 10km from Günzburg I called torben for driving directions to his place (48N27'32.6'', ...
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Rambo in Weissenburg, Germany --
Around 5am Taru woke up to a thunderstorm, by nine (breakfast time) it had calmed to medium rain and after that (while I was desperately trying to send the previous post and an email trough 80% packet loss and pings in the high 9 second class) to medium-light, anyways it was rain-gear time.
Weather...
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Rambo in Zwönitz, Germany --
Either half (or more) of the B roads (on which we've been mostly staying because A-roads [==Autobahn] are not much fun) in the area are closed for repairs or we've been really unlucky: Umleitung (=detour) -signs everywhere we go, and always for the destination we're headed to. So todays ride was 200...
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Rambo in Bautzen (near Dresden), Germany --
Yesterday when going for breakfast in the parking lot of A10 center a german lady decided to reverse into (or actually between) parking place(s) without botherring to check if there's anyone behind her.
Luckily we barely touched, front corner of the car and the brake saddle of my front tire, Brembo...
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Rambo in Berlin, Germany --
The tourist day is over, we had brunch near "Checkpoint Charlie" in a Thai slash Sushi (yes, it sounds scary) place, the Thai part was actually good, the sushi was passable (in general there seems to be quite a few sushi places in Berlin, and in the Potsdamer platz [nowadays a business district] sus...
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Rambo in Berlin, Germany --
I managed to sneak my small minolta camera past the security, so expect some photos from the Rammstein concert once I get somewhere I can actually upload lots of data (GPRS is not it)
Even though this was the third gig in a row this weekend for them they didn't let that get to them and gave an excel...
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Rambo in Berlin, Germany --
We almost managed a misshap before the trip even started as I had managed to pack my bike off-balance (not being used to lack of centre stand), and just barely managed to keep it from falling over itself when placed on less than perfectly level surface.
On the ferry we saw promising (but as it turn...
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