Monday, 30 May 2011

Riding in Slovenia and Croatia

The final day of our ride to Biograd in Croatia took us along some spectacular coastal roads alongside the Adriatic Sea.It didn’t take long before we were leaving Italy and entering Slovenia....Our journey took us across a very narrow strip of Slovenia and as I rode along I realised people might ask...

Riding through the Dolomite Mountains

I am behind with my posts. This is actually from a few days ago....We stayed on night 3 of our trip to Croatia in the Greif Hotel in Bolzano. This is one of those ultra modern, funky hotels that make you smile. For example, the room that Ian stayed in contained a grand piano, while my room had a fantastic...

Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Oh, glorious Stelvio Pass - how we missed you

Day 3 of the ride to Croatia was always going to be a long day.Ian and I decided we needed to leave early, so the plan was to start riding at 07:00 and there we both were, packing gear on the bikes at 06:45. The ride into Turin on the previous late afternoon / evening was very busy as we had hit the...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Getting to Croatia – France and into Italy

The ride on day 2 of the trip to Croatia was good, but we had to miss out on one road that we had intended to do. We rode 365 miles on this day and it took a long time, on mainly mountain roads. Early on during the ride, I hit a big milestone, or rather the Leading Ladies did. The bike went over the...

Sunday, 22 May 2011

Road Trip to Croatia

This morning, my friend Ian Solley of 7Ages Custom Motorcycles and I set off for an eight day trip to Croatia in Eastern Europe. We are going to the 20th Harley-Davidson European HOG Rally in Biograd and we have something like 1,600 miles to do across France, Italy and Croatia to get there.I left home...