Italian Trip

[Robbo]

Hi to yer west country guys

just got a chance to get on a interwebbiy connection here in Landeck Austria

roads fantaztic

weather sunny and hot

just about to depart for ride over mountains to Italian Lakes

Happy days

[Hadyn Satchell]

All booked Trevy and Robbo. See you tomorrow night. If the weather is good I'll be on the nephews Monster.
xx Headley

[Robbo]

A few pictures

A stop in France to hit a local Patissurie



Somewhere in rural France !!!!!!......a stop at a local bar.



Night out in Strasbourg.



Lake Constance Bundesland Bavaria Germany



On the road into Lindau (Lake Contance)



Hotel Bulligan in Lindau



Our good friend the owner of the Hotel Bullingan and his brilliant Harley Bobber



Cocktail Twins!!!!!!!




On the road to Landeck Austria



Trev' bike after going over the mountain pass to Landeck



Salo Town Center Lake Garda Italy



Lake Garda



Venice by train







MMmmmm More Cake's!!!!!!!!!!!



On the road Again!!!!! to Aosta .. Nortern Italy.



St Niclolas Aosta

[Robbo]

St Nicolas Aosta Northern Italy



Evening meal up in the mountain's





After riding over to Mount Blanc and passing through the tunnel back ito France we headed to "Annecy "then onto "Dijon "and up to "Troyes".














Then Back to France's fourth largest city "Lille"........ then back through the Channel Tunnel to the U.K .

[Ukkid76]

Great photos!!

I have just one job to do (a Victorian roof to renovate in Manchester about 5 weeks work "max") then I’m off to Naples for 6/7 weeks my bike is primed up and ready to go, can’t wait!!

You stopped in Strasburg so I assume you travelled through Switzerland, What did you think? how much was the road tax?

I suppose you planning your next trip already?

[Steppenwulf]

Brill' photo's Rob, twas good to hear about it at the weekend,
sounds like a fantastic trip. Dead jealous we couldn't do it with you,
Is the bike clean yet?

[SJC69]

Great piccies, looks like a fantastic trip, keep 'em coming.

Originally Posted by Ukkid76

You stopped in Strasburg so I assume you travelled through Switzerland, What did you think? how much was the road tax?

Hoping not to jump the gun here, but I assumed and the the way I have been, is they went through the Black Forest via the RN500 then along the north shore of Konstanz to Lindau then from there on into Austria without going into Switzerland.

Re The Swiss motorway network, well it's quite picturesque and not too boring on a bike.
It's mainly two lane, has few long stretches and quite a few sweeping bends.
Generally it is not too busy other than around the major cities.
There are plenty of service areas which are good, take any currency you like and also have dedicated bike parking areas.
This year the Swiss motorway tax disc {vignette} is 40CHF and available at the border or at most filling stations before you get to the border.
If you do not use the motorways you do not have to get a disc.

We have used the Swiss motorway via the St Gotthard crossing to go to the Italian lakes a few times as it is quicker and often works out cheaper than some of the alternative routes.
The St Gotthard pass & tunnel are both free, the pass is well surfaced and not to challenging or busy but the tunnel is horrendous on a bike, two way traffic and ten miles long, not recommended unless really necessary. I've done it twice on a bike.

Here some links that might be useful.

"www.AlpineRoads.com - The Best Biking Roads In The Alps"

Vacation, Travel, Meetings - Switzerland Tourism

You also need a Tax disc to use the Austrian Motorway and Express routes too, but they are available for shorter periods and cost less for a bike.
Austrian Vignette

As you use sat Nav this might be of help too.

: (some) PND’s banned in Switzerland | yourNAV News

[Robbo]

Originally Posted by Ukkid76

You stopped in Strasburg so I assume you travelled through Switzerland.

Kept out of Switzerland ........as SJC69 rightly assumed we came out

of Strasburg and made our way through the stunningly beautiful Black Forest

across to the north of Lake Konstanz down to Lindua .

On the return from Aosta we avoided Switzerland by heading to Dijon via

Annecy ...glad we did, cause Annecy and it's Lake has been put on the list of

place's i must hopefuly return...one day!!!!



Jonathan...................washed the bike 3 time's and it's still gunged

up !!!


Ukkid76....................have a great time on your trip ...will look forward to

you posting up your photo's on your return....good luck mate and enjoy every moment !!!

[MacHarry]

Great piccies, looks like a fantastic trip

Like you said don't go true Swiss but you can go true Ostria mountaine are nice also

Harry

[Robbo]

Our Photo's Mashed up into a filmshow !!!!!!!

YouTube - "Nam Crew's" Harley Davidson Euro Road Trip 08

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