After my night in the truck stop.. I decide to continue my way through Spain on the back roads to Madrid. I found a great property for sale… should I?? 😉 Bull fight advertising in a village.. wasn’t sure but they seem to still be popular! I love the back roads.. it appears that life is good out here.. and definitely more authentic than...
I did it!! Managed to get from Slovenia to Spain in record time! Came in through Italy via Monaco and France into Spain, and navigated my way to Barcelona easily to the ferry port to board with an hour to spare. As usual, the ferry to Palma de Mallorca is an overnight sailing, and an expensive one at that, so it’s deck chair space for me again. ...
Not far from Umag Croatia, I ride through Slovenia. Heading for a planned stop at Lake Bled, as so many people have recommended it to me. It’s not far, I’m not in a hurry, so I pick the little dirt roads.. well me and Mr. Garmin picked them. My camera is still very sick if not dying. It’s getting really bad.. I get the odd picture...
First, a few more bullet holes.. The last day with Josip, we finish riding through north Bosnia before crossing the border to Croatia.. but not without witnessing a few last abandoned and destroyed villages. So few people have moved back since the war. I haven’t seen any other country like this on my trip so far. And it would be such a...
We eventually made it into Sarajevo, Bosnia, where we are to meet and stay with Josip’s wealthy business friends. It really struck me as we are parking under the veranda near the pool, how nice and pretty this property in the middle of town was. As on the other side of the pool is more of a bold reality of war-torn Sarajevo. It’s like night...
Josip, on BMW 1200gs doesn’t waste much time.. as soon as I arrived Belgrade, got my bike and myself clean at the hotel, he says we are going out to meet his friend Dane (pronounced Da – nay), on Honda Africa Twin for a little tour around. I was really exhausted and just wanted to stop for the day. However, we only have 4 days to get through 3...
After the great ride with Tibi and Ruxi, they turned to the main road back to Sibiu, and I had a plan to continue down the track to get to Baile Herculane.. a spa town named known for being a favorite relaxing spot of dear ol’ Hercules. It surprises me that I couldn’t find any place to sleep in this town tonight. Well I could have if I wanted...
Warning! Lots of pictures in this one (well more than normal anyway.. ) Romania is sooo beautiful. Wasn’t sure what to expect, but glad to find it to be a great place to ride a motorcycle.. First a few views from the road: Farming gets done by hand around here! Fields, sheep herding.. not many fences, not many borders.. I like it.. I know...
It was kind of fun to stop the bike on a big bridge with no emergency lane, large trucks passing by to hop off and take a photo!! Not often you get the border sign in a place like this?! Such things would usually scare me in the past, but now I just do whatever I want.. cocky rider in the making! ;-/ I’ve been looking forward to Romania...
Apologies for the delayed blog post!! I’m horribly behind again.. I’ve really really been on the move.. Meeting so many people, wonderful hosts, riding the bike a lot, leaving little time for blogging. Always a tough decision, should I go see that or meet them, or update my blog.. Have to say that I tend to choose enjoying my experiences over...