We are nothing if (overly) ambitious.
Anyway. Things I've learnt today include:
It's funny when Tim needs petrol and the pump won't accept any of his cards (see pic at bottom) 'Johnny foreigner is not spoken at this pump.
A PX125 is a scooter not a motorbike. In holland you can ride scooters on the cycle paths. Thank you to the large number of Dutch drivers who pointed out to us that we shouldn't be on the motorway by beeping and shouting at us.
Waterproof motorcycle trousers keep the rain out, but moisture in. Fine for 30 mins, bad for 11 hours. Yuck.
Some roads in Holland have a ferry across a big canal. It's awesome, but Google maps just draws a line across like an imaginary bridge. It's quite surprising.
Crossing a country in a day is a silly idea. And we do it again in nine days.
164 miles according to Google Maps miraculously grows by 30 miles in actuality, leading on from this, printing out a few maps and doing a list of waypoints is no substitute for doing it properly. We had multiple balls-ups. Not printing out the Germany section if the map was even more foolish. We are hopeless! In the end shouting 'hofbanhof' through the open windows of cars was perhaps a last resort we shouldn't have needed. But a big vote of thanks to all the lovely people that helped us. Amazingly. If two twats on matching vespas did that to me in London I would point them straight in the direction Croydon no matter where they asked for.
What ever speed your riding partners scooter likes will generate an annoying rattle or an irritating carburettor starvation stutter, which is miraculously cured by going 5kmh faster.
More to come. I'm going to bed and worry all night that they haven't strapped my scooter down properly.
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