I am tired of waiting for G's write up so I thought I would post a few pics

Waiting to board the ferry



First stop in Europe, Brugge




First overnight stop in Epinal, France




One of many stops at service ares, crunching miles!




One of the many amazing views in Switzerland




Secong night in Switzerland at the Hotel Vezia in Lugano. Bikers hotel!




Garage under the bedroom with access to your room from the garage at the Hotel Vezia




Lake Como



Lake Garda




more Lake Garda




Parked at Lake Garda this is when we decided to forget our final destination, Venice. It was 26c so pizza and a beer overlooking the lake. We deserved it after 900 miles!!!!



more Lake Garda




more Lake Garda




Yet another service area apologies cannot remeber where.





A coffee stop in Ottenbrau, beautiful village/town.

I will leave the rest to G. our last two overnights were in Bad Tolz and Saarbrucken, desperate for accommodation we ended up in a red light district but the hotel was ok. Bonus a garage for the scoots!!! And we dis have a great Thai evening meal!!!

The old "desperate for accommodation so we ended up in the red light district" chestnut

Looks like fun and I'm a bit jealous! Those burgmans must have looked like a Police convoy in a rear view mirror!

Yes cars tended to slow down as we came up behind them. Also slowed down as they passed but G said it was because they were admiring the BURGS

Some nice photo , look like you had a brilliant time , well done to you all

Excellent pictures. I'm currently planning a trip to Italy for next year. I intend to ride through France and Switzerland and into Italy via the Simplon Pass.

Simplon pass brings you down to Lake Maggiore nice lake .Are you going via Chamonix ? done that run twice but going other way first time was from Italy via Lake Maggiore over Simplon pass .

Great bikes and photos!!

rtfm wrote:The old "desperate for accommodation so we ended up in the red light district" chestnut

On one of our trips we stopped at a remote hotel in Switzerland - we were sent there by my TomTom when I chose 'find local hotels' - honestly! My mate went in to ask for rooms and came out laughing his head off. Yep, it was a licensed brothel and when he asked the man behind the desk if they had any rooms for the night he was told "Yes, we have rooms and each room has a girl in it". We should have realised when we pulled up and the car park was absolutely full of crates with dirty bedsheets in them!

Steve_D wrote:

rtfm wrote:The old "desperate for accommodation so we ended up in the red light district" chestnut

On one of our trips we stopped at a remote hotel in Switzerland - we were sent there by my TomTom when I chose 'find local hotels' - honestly! My mate went in to ask for rooms and came out laughing his head off. Yep, it was a licensed brothel and when he asked the man behind the desk if they had any rooms for the night he was told "Yes, we have rooms and each room has a girl in it". We should have realised when we pulled up and the car park was absolutely full of crates with dirty bedsheets in them!

Yes but did he get a decent groop discount - boom boom.

pikey wrote:Simplon pass brings you down to Lake Maggiore nice lake .Are you going via Chamonix ? done that run twice but going other way first time was from Italy via Lake Maggiore over Simplon pass .

I plan to go from Calais, overnight in Dijon. Then onto Brig which is a the base of the Simplon Pass. I will spend a few days there before heading into Italy.