Euro Tour Part 6

The following day (Saturday) was a little awkward, we were to travel back to Europoort in Rotterdam but without KG. When we met in the morning KG told us that his day was planned out, he was to spend the day with our hosts until his flight was sorted out, this took the pressure off the rest of us, it would have been bad to just pack up and go and leave KG to his own devices. With the bikes fully luggage up again we headed off into town for a bit of breakfast, there is a great little restaurant in Adenau which does a traditional German breakfast for a few Euros.
Suitably fuelled up we headed off through the fantastic Eifel Mountains to pick up the autobahn near Bonn. We settled into a steady rhythm and devoured the miles, before long it was time for a coffee and fuel in a service station near Munchengladbach. As we were relaxing a group of bikers riding enormous Boss Hoss choppers pulled in, these things are immense, V8 engines, twin fuel tanks, car rear tyres, twice the size of a normal chopper.
We set off again and this time managed to pick up the road we missed at the start of our adventure, this brought us to the old Germany/ Holland border which still had some of its old booths, a few pictures were taken and we headed off into Holland. A final lunch stop was made before we attacked the long stretch of motorway to the ferry terminal, this passed fairly uneventful and it wasn’t long before we were securing our bikes in the vehicle deck of the ferry, there were far more bikes on board this time with a few heading off to the Isle of Man TT.
A few pints made the return crossing a breeze, and a quick call to KG revealed that he had been to a footy game and was, that afternoon , going to be given a fast lap of the Nurburgring in our hosts Porsche race car. (lucky git).
The next morning we rode our bikes off the ferry and onto British roads once again, we split up (unintentionally) and headed off home.
All in all I’m sure all involved would agree that our first trip abroad was a fantastic success, the KG incident just went to prove that proper insurance is a must because you never can tell what is going to happen when abroad. Without the correct cover it would have cost a fortune to get KG and his bike home.
Thanks guys I really enjoyed myself, here’s to next years trip
Bungle