Hiya. Well that was one helluva trip. Around 3,150 miles for me an' a load more for Peter who hails from Glasgow.
We set out on 16/6 from Harwich via a ferry to Esbjerg in Denmark arrivin' around lunchtime the next day. From there we rode across Denmark thru some really heavy rain at one point an' thru Sweden, where the weather improved up to our first nights camp at Jonkopping by Lake Vattern.
The next day we went on to Stockholm where we took a ferry across to Tallinn in Estonia. We had a couple of fantastic days there before movin' on to Otepaa in the south of the country where we stayed on a campsite aimed at bikers. We stayed in a wooden hut for £2 each an' had dinner an' a beer for anutha £2 each, we had a few more on top of that but not too many as the next day we were off to Riga in Latvia.
Both the road to Riga an' Riga itself were hot, damned hot. But not for long, the heat gave way to an' impressive downpour that lasted thru the night into the next day as we were travellin' to Kaunas in Lithuania to meet up with the Roadhogs, a bike club that we had arranged to stay with over the weekend. We had a fantastic time with them before movin' on into Poland, spendin' three days travellin' across the country visitin' Glizycko, Hel an' Szczecin for our campin'. Again we had some rain on the way to Hel, an' whilst travellin' there we went thru Gdansk - All I want to say about that is G'day Gdansk an' G'bye. TRAFFIC !!!!
After Szczecin we headed over the border into Germany an' travelled along the A2 to Hannover then turned south on the A7 before turnin' off onto the road to Uslar an' Villa Loewenherz, a biker hotel where we stayed for a couple of nights before finishin' our trip by attending my bike clubs German party in Lingen for three days. As I said, a journey I will not forget in a hurry.
I'll eventually post a better account of the journey an' stick up some photos but that may take a while an' I wanted to get this much on here before Manky Monkey collars me in the street for not gettin' somethin' on here for you to read.
By the way andy, I wore a Manky Monkey Motors t-shirt for a fair part of the trip. By the time we got to Kaunas it was a VERY manky Manky Monkey Motors t-shirt.
An' as to the necklace, yes I have one, I think it's great, bloody sharp sometimes tho but I'm gonna stop wearin' mine if every other ****** is gonna have one too
