Back in Garage...17:45

1,814 Miles - Now for a cup of tea and a bath!
Ride Summary

Tue - 233 - 233 - Dover via Evesham, A40, M40, M25, M26, M20
Wed - 236 - 469 - Les Islettes via Folkestone / A26 (J14)/ Vouziers
Thu - 211 - 680 - Mulhouse via Verdun / St Mihiel (D964)
Fri - 213 - 893 - Lugano via Wassen / St Gotthard Pass
Sat - 55 - 948 - Lake Como / Lugano
Sun - 169 - 1117 - Freiburg via Lorrach / Standort (Black Forest)
Mon - 340 - 1457 - Chamouille nr Laon via Colmar / Vosges / St Mihiel / Vouziers.
Tue - 357 - 1814 - Home via A26, M20, M26, M25, M40, A40, Evesham.

And here we part

Where we started..,Evesham McDonalds 7 days and 1800 miles later. Great fun. Where are we going this Sunday then?

Boarding

40 mins 2 uk. Got an earlier trip.

Au Revoir

The handling dropped off yesterday. Hit a tarmac seam on a swoopy r-hander at 80 and got wobble on. Woke me up a bit! Turns out F tyre is 5 PSI down. Avec oo puff air sil vous plait?

Petit dejeuner.

Today we head 4 Calais and tunnel, via the A26 Peage.

Hotel Du Golf De L'Ailette.

150 Miles from Calais.

Near the Aisne in the Chemin Des Dames.

Our final night stay. Today has been a huge ride from Germany. We crossed the Rhine, Meuse, Mosel & Aisne rivers, thru harvest ready wheat fields & little Mway. Back up that road thru St Mihiel to Verdun & Vouziers we enjoyed on the way down.

Chillin out

Way over 30 c today.

Vosges

1066

Saw a pack of Hogs in distance as we came thru Alsace Lorraine. Turned out 2 be the 1066 Chapter on their way home too.

Breakfast

Last night phoned Ron Brett 4 details of hotel in Chamouille in Chemin Des Dames. Today we cover 270+ to get there bring us 150 of Calais 4 on Tue. Thanks Karen 4 booking 4 us.

Camping in Freiburg.

See you soon H. 14 WA. Xxx

Biker Heaven.

Peter at Standort

Just done 140 miles this morning. Now the best bit!

Black Forest

Gotthard Tunnel

Today we're heading to Freiburg, Germany. Just stopped nr Basel. Tunnel 11 miles long seen at 50mph.

Good night!

What a great day and night. Listening 2 Neil Young on telly now. 2morrow we leave 4 Freiburg - start the return.

Smokin!

Burn ups & donuts

Some girl

Sabrina a HD worker from Luzerne, gave me some beer during band Gottard. Cheers luv. Rock on!

Lu...ga....no

These local Italian Swiss people took us into their stall tent and gave us wine and we sang along wth them. They sang Aston Villa repeatedly. Finally, it stopped raining and they sang us farewell.

Storm

Now in the stairwell sheltering from lightening and torrential rain. Supposed 2 be a firewk display but natures show trumps that!

Como

Ok, enough photos of me and my bike already no more of me for a while honest (sorry mum), but couldn't resist this quick pic as I parked in someones drive to get a fly out of my ear, and heared dogs barking from the house..... 'scarpa' is the only Italian We know.

To Como

Following Peter to Lake Como via hillside villages. This was near Argegno. Before we get to look back across the lake and then back to Switzerland. So twisty it was 15mph for most of it.

Spag Bol

The proper dish for these parts.,set us up for a ride around Como after.

Bella bella

Italy now

Videos: Ride around the lake

Harleyville

New 'cut' and 1st Pin

Official MC accountant. Late with subs.? I BREAK YOUR LEGS!

Hog Dog!

4 Hayley & Will B-)

View from Hotel

Good nights rest after a night in Harley village watchd great rock act 'Never the bride'.

A gentle stroll, after breakfast & the night time rain.

Friday Night Entertainment - 'Never The Bride'

Great Band live in Harley Village - the Piazza. Great Trike.

Lugano

We've made it!

The best ride ever!

Clee hill back home aint gonna seem the same again!

Gotthard

2k up looking in to Italy.

Awesome dude!

Luzern 2

The Alps are in the distance now. This is where we are heading after lunch.

2 hot!

What a ride ! And the best 2 come. St Gotthard pass after lunch.

Luzern

Now at Lake Luzern. On schedule..,for lunch.

Tri.,..Angular..,.Chocalat

Swiss border

Just being checked 4 contraband!

Mulhouse

After an alarming start where I saw Peter frantically waving in my mirrors, and me thinking what? Did I leave somethin? Am i losing luggage, oh yeah..right side of road Mark....doh! We went to the memorials in Verdun. What a ride. Just gets better, warm, sunny, perfct, twisties thru Alsace then up over our first pass, starting 2 get v swiss now. Arrvd at Mulhouse at 5:30.Tents up, am tryng 2 sleep in heat. More 2morrow as we head 4 swiss border like Steve McQueen in GE.

Verdun - Fort Douaumont

After a brief stop, we headed for Fort Douaumont, the memorial to the unknown soldiers. This was, as you can imagine a very sombre place.

The caskets contained bones of French soldiers who fell during the battle. obviously these could not be identified, but names appeared on plaques all over the inside of the monuments.

The Valley looks across the scene of battle as it is now, with row upon row of memorials in the foreground. On our ride through the valley, we saw wooded areas with trees planted since the war on ground that is still heavily bomb cratered.