Corona Covid 19 trip across Europe

[Marino]

As I said not to many pictures as it is boring motorway trip to Croatia.

Today departed from home toward euro tunnel, at 5 this morning light traffic all the way. Arrived just on time for train at 10:20 ( lot of road works and diversions),

Customs no issues at all, French bloke didn’t ask nothing. I did fill up online form for France few day’s in advance so maybe that is enough.

Arrived just south of Frankfurt, found nice track stop for overnight, not crowded fortunately no rain. Sleeping homeless stile in the sleeping bag on the bench. More details tomorrow after Austria and Slovenia.

[Bender]

I wish I was retired

[Guest Richzx6r]

You and me both, though right now just being able to get out on the bike would be good

[Guest]

Excellent!

[geofferz]

That's very cool

[gogs01]

Looks like you have been lucky with the weather so far !

Keep the updates and the photos coming - and good luck with the rest of your journey. Is that Zadar you're heading for ? I've been to Zadar and Dubrovnik. A beautiful ride down the Adriatic coast.

[Marino]

Looks like you have been lucky with the weather so far !

Keep the updates and the photos coming - and good luck with the rest of your journey. Is that Zadar you're heading for ? I've been to Zadar and Dubrovnik. A beautiful ride down the Adriatic coast.

 

No I am going to Rijeka, my home town, but yes, ride from north to south along Adriatic coast is fantastic, and places as zadar, sibenik, etc all the way to Dubrovnik are fantastic.

Especially now with just tenth of the tourists, everything is half price.

[James in Brum]

I loved Rijeka when I was there. I did a bit of a tour around Istrian penisula and Split and Dubrovnik and. A few places

Croatia was one of my favourite countries that I have visited. I did not go in land. Maybe next time

[Marino]

Austrian and Slovenian road tax for a week

Few pics on the way

So update, arrived to Croatia, where tourists are welcomed, no one asked a question. Except on Austria/Slovenian border, Slovenian bloke asked where is the destination, when heard Cro he just waved his hand to go.

So depend on destination it looks very easy to travel.

So I stop last evening on lorry park around Wursburg, slept on the bench in the sleeping bag as real homeless. Rain worked me up at 03:00 so I just departed 03:30. It was raining over 3 hours, almost to Austria where sun came out finally.

Roads were very quiet what helped a lot getting quickly to destination, autobahn on cruise control 160 km/h

Unfortunately iPad and pics are rotated stupidly

But finally in Rijeka, 20 degrees Celsius, bit cold for locals, as it should be over 30

[Marino]

Just over 2000km, about 1200 miles, airhowk saved my bum, no pain no bruises. Definitely worth the money

[Marino]

Unfortunately all on motorway therefore no interesting pics, but met some bikers travelling around,

[Marino]

Next week same way back home and 14 days quarantine, welcome home.

[Marino]

Forgot all route picture

Definitely fastest way to get down there

[Guest]

Superb!

[gogs01]

Brilliant !

Many thanks for taking us with you and posting the pictures.

Congratulations on completing the trip in an excellent time.

My days of cruising at 160kph on motorways are far behind me - I hope you didn't trigger any speed cameras .....

On the plus side, your bike is very economical if you were getting over 50mpg travelling at those speeds

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[Marino]

Brilliant !

Many thanks for taking us with you and posting the pictures.

Congratulations on completing the trip in an excellent time.

My days of cruising at 160kph on motorways are far behind me - I hope you didn't trigger any speed cameras .....

On the plus side, your bike is very economical if you were getting over 50mpg travelling at those speeds

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No I didn’t trigger any speed camera, I did 160 only on the unlimited parts of the autobahn. I did follow all limits. As computer says average speed on all 2000km was 111 km/h what is 69 miles/h.

At 160 consumption was 40 miles /gallon, not bad at all.

It would be fantastic if I could stick all the way at 100 miles/h, it would take me only 12 hours instead of 18

[gogs01]

[quote name=Marino post_id=1134329 time=1591590324 user_id=23569No I didn’t trigger any speed camera' date=' I did 160 only on the unlimited parts of the autobahn. I did follow all limits. As computer says average speed on all 2000km was 111 km/h what is 69 miles/h.

At 160 consumption was 40 miles /gallon, not bad at all.

It would be fantastic if I could stick all the way at 100 miles/h, it would take me only 12 hours instead of 18

[/quote]

Good man ! I hadn't realised you were referring to (unlimited) German autobahn. My experience on them has been that they are very busy, so fairly short bursts of (very) high speed, then going with the flow of traffic until the next clear stretch, then another short burst of speed. I guess the roads are reasonably quiet now, so allowing high cruising speeds. You would have to stop for fuel more often, but at 40mpg and a 23 litre tank that wouldn't slow you down much either.

All that distance at legal speeds and only 18 hours was pretty good going !

[dynax]

[mention]Marino[/mention] Not sure if it will affect you but from the 10th Austria are closing some roads to motorcycles

https://www.femamotorcycling.eu/banning-motorcycles-in-tirol/

[Gerontious]

@Marino Not sure if it will affect you but from the 10th Austria are closing some roads to motorcycles

https://www.femamotorcycling.eu/banning-motorcycles-in-tirol/

 

they are NOT closing the roads to motorcycles. they are banning bikes with loud (non standard) exhausts!!

[Marino]

@Marino Not sure if it will affect you but from the 10th Austria are closing some roads to motorcycles

https://www.femamotorcycling.eu/banning-motorcycles-in-tirol/

 

Anyway I will be on the motorway only

[Marino]

Update from cro,

Today went on island of Krk, connected to the main land by the bridge.

 

Went to visit friend of mine who build summer house on the island, bit remote area far from the beach (10 min. By car),

 

After

[Marino]

Two proper ugly faces

[Marino]

After chill out around the pool went for pizza in city of Krk on island of Krk ( I know they didn’t have ideas how to name the town)

 

Thanks to corona island is almost empty, no tourists, so we had restaurant just for us.

[Gerontious]

Excellent.

[Bender]

@Marino Not sure if it will affect you but from the 10th Austria are closing some roads to motorcycles

https://www.femamotorcycling.eu/banning-motorcycles-in-tirol/

 

Anyway I will be on the motorway only

 

Is there a full list for all bikes

Unlikely I would be there on the bike but I have a removable baffle on a car that's bloody noisy