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Eurotour 2024 with Mark

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    August 9, 2024
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    Saint Quentin

    Aug 9–10, 2024 in France ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

    250 Mile's from home to St Quentin. Did a few hours on the motorways which were boring as hell. Having a picnic tea with ham, bread, salad, olives, leerdammer and of course beer and wine.

    There was a girl in a wheelchair on the campsite who reminded us of Andy from Little Britain, she kept getting out of her wheelchair to get more food 🤣

    There was also the "we'll save this bottle of red for tomorrow" episode, as Mark comes marching back to camp, bottle opener in hand 😂    Read more

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    Mulhouse

    Aug 10–11, 2024 in France ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C

    Sad start to the day, 2 of our group headed for home 😔
    300 miles of non motorway roads saw us ending up in Mulhouse, France on the border with Germany.
    On the way we bumped into Joan of Arcs birthplace, a jet taking off from a car park and rounded the day off with a nice meal in Mulhouse.
    Getting back to the hotel, we had a beer with Jörg & Sybille, a married couple from Stuttgart riding Harleys on their touring holiday. Jörg gave us their phone number for if ever we were in their hometown.
    Unsure what tomorrow will bring or even which direction we're headed, possibly along the bottom of Germany toward Slovenia.
    UPDATE: I forgot to remove the disc lock from my front wheel and dropped the bike 😒🤣    Read more

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    Can't beat a drop of Farny juice after a long ride.

    Ravensburg

    Aug 11–12, 2024 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C

    Only 150 miles today because we wanted to have an easy day with regard to mileage. The plan is to navigate across the bottom of Germany before turning North into Czech Rep and Poland.
    Today we have visited Lake Tittisee 🤣
    Now holed up at a Motel in Ravensburg ready to walk into town and find something to eat.
    One delicious burger and several beers later and it was back to the hotel where we had a conversation with a very drunk and high drug dealer who proceeded to show us photos of his marajuana crop and bemoan his life.
    I also liberated from the roadside a fallen Ausfart sign which will be returning to blighty in the top box.    Read more

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    Nuremberg

    August 12, 2024 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C

    The day started outside the hotel with trying to dissuade a Romanian couples daughter that riding bikes was a good idea for her. Her parents got a couple of photos of her on Helga and we wished them well. Our plan was to get to Nurnburg to have a look at the Zeppelin field, the place where Hitler held a lot of the Nazi party rallies. This place could hold 200,000 people and it was very uncomfortable to be stood where that maniac stood before.
    We're camped up at the Knauss campsite right next door and will be visiting the site bistro for some schnitzel later.
    Had a meal with a nice chap with a strange mustache on another bike called Robin from Geneva.
    Tomorrow's plan is to head for Czech Rep and try to avoid the oncoming storm as much as possible. We were kept awake by falling acorns. We had a small ride dressed like locals as it was too    Read more

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    Penzion na Navzi

    Aug 13–14, 2024 in Czech Republic ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    Another hot ride of up to 35° heat.

    190 miles across the old Soviet border.

    Ending up at a small family run pension filled with cats and dogs and sparrows and stoats on the menu 🫣
    Huge thunderstorms last night but a beautiful morning to wake up too.
    Beer under £2 for half a litre and a great game of Connect 4 in the evening.    Read more

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    Dolni Bousov

    Aug 14–15, 2024 in Czech Republic ⋅ ☀️ 45 °C

    After a healthy breakfast at the pension, £35 for 2 meals, accommodation and beer it was on the road toward the Northern side of CZ.
    The fuel is cheaper in CZ
    Some decent roads in the hills and forests although one diversion almost caused me to go the wrong side of the road. Also, getting to a fuel station involved a little off road.

    We arrived at Liberec, on the Northern edge of CZ, booking into a hotel where we enjoyed some food and more beer. 2 meals and 6 beers amounted to a £30 bill
    The plan for tomorrow is to visit Stalag Luft III at Zagen, Poland.    Read more

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    Stalag Luft III

    August 15, 2024 in Poland ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

    This morning was a fast exit because of impending rainstorms.
    We hightailed it to Stalag Luft III in Poland to visit the site of the RAF's and others mass escape from a German POW camp.
    Then into Zagen to pay our respects at the camp cemetery and memorial to the men who "were shot trying to esape"Read more

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    Cheap digs

    August 15, 2024 in Germany ⋅ 🌙 24 °C

    Our next target is Colditz so plan to find some accommodation not too far away.

    Ended up in an old (1732) inn at Burgstadt and after a pizza, a couple of beers and early night ready for Colditz in the morning.Read more

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    Colditz

    August 16, 2024 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    Leaving Zum Frongut for Colditz Schloss, managed to manoeuvre through some pedestrian gates to get a quicker run to the bakerei 😀
    Colditz was amazing, 10 Euros for the tour with all sorts of crazy stories of escape concocted by the British, Dutch, French and Belgian prisoners. 
    After the tour it was off to find somewhere for the night, heavy rains in a couple of days so trying to get to a city on the German/French border.    Read more

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    Day off the bikes

    Aug 17–19, 2024 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

    Waking up to a beautiful morning in Bad Rodach, we knew we would have to be clever and lucky with the radar app to avoid a shower so decided to head South West.
    Stopping at a Rewe for the, by now, obligatory coffee and pastry we covered approx 200 miles with no wet weather arriving in Pforzheim around 1530.
    We are staying here 2 nights to allow huge thunderstorms to pass through and looking out the window as I write it was a good decision.
    After getting the bikes unloaded and parked up safely in the hotel garage, it was a quick shower and find out what the town was like. Sadly, as I'm sure with so many others in Germany, it was not at all quaint as the RAF had done some re-modelling in 1945 destroying 83% of the town.
    We met some nefarious German fellas in a nearby bar and shared some laughs and schnapps in broken Germlish.
    After some currywurst and a final beer, it was off to bed with the knowledge that tomorrow was a rest day.    Read more

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