Bungleaio

Lots of maintenance going on. I hope you aren't getting tempted to do any @smallfrowne. I've been riding around the Netherlands today which is largely boring from a riding stand point but it's interesting (for me at least) to see the different type of houses/towns/villages. I've also ridden through a huge wind farm. I've also called into the war cemetery next to Arnhem. These are alway sobering places but I like to go to pay my respects. Next door was a normal cemetery so I had a wander around there too. I find it interesting to see how different nations have cemeterys, the Dutch seem to have a nod to psalms on their headstones, not something I've seen before but it's a nice touch. 62, 139 stuck out. Anyway on a lighter note this house made me laugh Can you imagine the grief you would from get from your Mrs if you had a 5meter high inflatable in the front garden with a sash around it with her name and whore written on it. Let alone all the other stuff I have had a slight technical malfunction today as the usb cable powering my phone (which I'm using as a sat nav) decided it doesn't want to work which left me with a phone with less than 10% power. I managed to pick up a new cable from a supermarket along with a pot of some sort of crab meat mixture that made an incredible sandwich. There was enough filling for two cobs but I'd only bought one. I don't think the Dutch eat sandwiches in supermarket car parks as I got some funny looks. Fuel isn't cheap here. It was €2.059 a litre for standard e10 95 Ron. I was down to my last 50km range so I just bit the bullet and filled up with just over 25 litres. Now back in the pub that sells it's own beer so it's quite well priced, the lady recognised me from yesterday so just assumed I wanted a tab and never asked for any money. The roads may be crap but I do quite like Arnhem. Here's some photos in various orientations

I really like the ferry option, its great to travel when asleep but I enjoy cruising so it suits me. If it was dover to calias then I'd chose the tunnel every time though. Weather today has been spot on and I'm currently sat on a sunny terrace of a self serve pub, they have 100 beers to chose from. There was some threatening clouds but I told them to do one and they did. Today's ride has been a random meandering 180km of sometimes straight but often sweepy bends on dykes. I'm still getting used to the new tiger, it had done less than 600 miles up until last weekend but I prefer it to the GS.

The bike is strapped down but I don't really know what I'm doing so fingers crossed its still stood up in the morning. Time for a couple of beers.

Regular raking and weed killer is the only way, we've tried special sand etc and it just grows back sadly.

It begins, @Stu can you do the honours with my photos again please or would you like me to hold off posting until I'm home?

Ha Im sure you'll at least say hello Rather than booze I will be on the hunt for mayonnaise. I found some particularly nice stuff from Luxembourg last year so I will be nipping into a supermarket one day. I'll be getting some from the Netherlands and Belgium before we meet up and I'll get some from France on the way home.

Sunday is ages away. I cross tomorrow night!

Make sure you service the seat lock. It gets a lot more use than the manufacturer ever intended and I'd hate to see it fail.

I put 100 miles on the clock, it's the first time I've actually been out for a ride for weeks.

Euros collected and I've got the panniers down from the loft. I might have to start thinking about doing some packing soon.

Fridays off! You lucky lad

I'm buzzing for the trip, still got loads of work to do but whatever happens I need to be on the road by 18:00 next Wednesday. Weather isn't looking amazing but I don't care. I'm looking forward to some saray grill as we missed it last year

Just ordered some euros through Sainsbury's they have a rate sale on so they are doing €1.1489 to £1. As sales go it's pretty rubbish but it's a better rate than it was last week. I'm going to pick them up on Saturday. Just got to get the panniers out of the loft and fit them to the bike on Sunday, I'll chuck a few things in them ready to leave on Wednesday night at 5pm.

I’ve just done mine, it remembered my details from the last time I just had to confirm them. Still need a few euros out but other than that I’m good to go, 9 days now.

We will never find out!

Hill is expensive. I’m crossing harwich to hook overnight on the 30th for £170. I’m having a couple of days mooching around before joining @Gerontious and co on the Sunday.

I have a couple of sets from custom fit guards (I lost one then found them after I got a new set) one pair is really comfortable and the other I can’t stand. I’d say just get another set of custom ones made by someone else and hope they are more comfortable. Ears keep growing though your life so ideal you should have new custom ones every few years.

I have two of these, one in the car and one on the bike, I just use them for emergency use which iOS thankfully very infrequent

That’s very new, the Germans didn’t want it for privacy reasons. I’ll have a look around later.

It certainly gives you a light head if you're directly behind it for any length of time.

That could be the seat removal specialist but I think this is the mark of snod. I wonder if the trx has given up smoking yet?

I think my annual travel insurance covers me riding my bike but I need to confirm with Admiral, it needs renewing at the begiing of october so it's not the end of the world If I need a new policy. I also need to get some Euro's but most spending will be on plastic now that the hotel accepts card payment. Really can't wait to get away

Only 47 for me as my trip starts on the Wednesday. I can't wait to be away again.

I added a thunderbox to my tiger so that I could get a switched usb socket at the front of the bike. I'll add an innov camera system down the line which I'll connect into this too. I much prefer these types of things to having to cut into factory wiring. Link to thunder boxes incase you've not heard of them. https://www.healtech-electronics.com/products/tb/

My 2020 R1250GS had the SOS button so it's not new. It would often flash up on the screen to say it had failed when it lost signal.