Not a one Meldrew. I thought it might have been a long shot with short notice but the price for the ferry including four meals was great!

Is anyone familiar with the Montabaur area in terms of riding? My company is based there so if I look in for an hour I will claim the ferry back through the business.
On the other hand if that area is a dead loss I will give calling in a miss. Its the ride that counts on this trip.

Hi
Wish I had seen this earlier. Might have been tempted. Plus I speak some German (but fluent in French)
Hope it was fun
Barry

This was a great trip and a good learning curve! I have walked into a busy time at work so the report will be coming shortly. But in the meantime - Do not expect to be able to book a room within 20 miles of an Andre Rieu Concert - it cannot be done! He's a very popular Guy apparently.

It was a great ride! We covered 4 countries in the four days we were there. Hull to Rotterdam overnight having a good breakfast we set of for the Eifel region to our bikers hotel. What a pain in the ass in Germany traffic lights every 400/800 yards couldn't get going at all. Arrived at the hotel set in beautiful woodland absolutely perfect, so peaceful and tranquil would have been quite happy to stay there. Accommodation was very good as was food and drink, very reasonable. For two nights accommodation meals and drinks worked out at a 105 euro's each, bargain. Also the staff were all excellent. This is the link to the hotel http://www.tourenfahrer-hotels.de/partn ... forsthaus/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. We planned to stay one night but the area was so beautiful we stayed another night. Visited the Nurburgring whilst we were in the area, very impressive. It was a Renault weekend so we managed to watch some single seaters flying around the track for free. Bought the obligatory T shirt Cap and Badge for the scoot, lol. We decided to head to Brussels to break the journey to Rotterdam via Luxembourg. This was a quick visit just to say we had been, few pics a drink and off we went. We decided Brussels was too far so decided on Liege not a pleasant city really felt uncomfortable, fate decided we should not stay there as all hotels were fully booked because of the Andree Rieu concert, we were told to try Maastricht. No joy there either for the same reason. We were then told to try Valkenberg, you guessed it, the same story. Next stop Gulpen, this is after two and a half hours riding in search of a hotel. On the way to Gulpen Gerard spotted a restaurant that had accommodation. As i was the one most presentable G sent me in to see if they had any rooms. Thank god the restaurant was staffed with 4 pretty girls who were really helpful two rooms and garaged parking for the scoots, heaven. We had a fantastic meal and a few cool beers and then off to bed for a well deserved rest. After another great breakfast we decided to drop into Amsterdam. We hit there early afternoon and spent a couple of hours admiring the boats on the canals and the obligatory Mc Donalds. An observation was it was very easy to get into Amsterdam but far more difficult getting out, may have been G's satnav. Once out it was off to Rotterdam for another good evening on the P&O's floating hotels. Back in the UK Monday morning wishing we were heading back to Germany. We rode together until approaching Wakefield where G and his son, Richard split and I carried onto Manchester.
I am sure G will do a more detailed report but just thought I would stick my two penneth in.

Frank has said it all! We had a great time. It would be good to go away with a bigger group at some stage in the future, hopefully from Hull, (us Northern Muppets don't want to be riding south, speaking for myself of course, some may love hurtling down the M or A1).
I need a wider audience, hard to believe but there were signs of boredom at my wonderful anecdotes. These trips are addictive. The freedom for few days to just wonder at will is wonderful. I only wish I had discovered it years ago. Touring on a Maxi is so simple. Bag under the seat and off we went.

Planning for next year Ferry to Northern Spain easier with small scoot let ferry do the work only a 150 miles run to Portsmouth for me and straight off ferry into Spanish Picos de europa or across to Pyrenees

Pleased you all had a good time if you are looking for more muppets to join in it might be better to arrange a meeting point on the other side to open it up to muppets from other area's

Hi Alp123 or alp, If I may be so bold. That's such a good idea! We can do exactly that the next little adventure we go on.

I don't know anything about the ride there but I am getting an urge to ride to Lake Garda. Anyone been and offer some advice?

G the world is our oyster, well Europe for starters. Would love to do Italy. When touring France on my ZZR many years ago the only part of Italy I touched was Turin not a shining example of Italy but did get to ride through the Mont Blanc tunnel that finished at a beautiful lake and camp site. Welcomed after the hot dirty ride through the tunnel. The water was crystal clear and so so refreshing. So lets see more of Europe!!!!!

pikey wrote:You can't beat Budget ones and get food out of vending machine or take travel kettle you can have pot noodle then pot porridge in a morning .Scootouring took touring on a shoe string to another level on our trips .3 of us shared a straw bed above a stable in Andermatt was our finest hour lol

Ahh Cindy the pissing horse..