arrival.......
There was a definate sense of excitement the following morning, none of us had rode abroad before (we had all driven overseas, but riding is a different animal). We rode off the ferry, down the port access roads and finally our Euro trip had started. The Dutch roads were nice and smooth, well marked and signed. Scenery was real nice at times and a little unspectacular at others, but still it was all new to us. The plan was to stop every hour for a break, especially since we could'nt check into our digs until the afternoon, so we had plenty of scope for stops. Our first stop was a coffee shop in some motorway services about 30k outside of Rotterdam
A nice relaxing place. In the pic above i think HBos is expecting a bloody good rogering (he was after all C4C)
We stopped a couple of times in various services and filling stations and took a wrong turn which added about 40 mile to the journey but we were still making good progress.
When we finally crossed the German border there was a definate change in scenery, it became very industrialised for the first 25 miles or so and then just bog standard motorways until our turn off (Ausfarht: not a town Zippy) it was then that the scenery
and the roads became absolutely stunning.
Our digs, no that is too understated, our holiday home was fantastic and not what i was expecting at all, hats off to K.G for that one, the cottage was in beautiful surroundings, was clean and fantastically stocked with everythimg we could want or need.
We all thought that if this day was anything to go by, the next would be absolutely cracking,
bring it on..............
There was a definate sense of excitement the following morning, none of us had rode abroad before (we had all driven overseas, but riding is a different animal). We rode off the ferry, down the port access roads and finally our Euro trip had started. The Dutch roads were nice and smooth, well marked and signed. Scenery was real nice at times and a little unspectacular at others, but still it was all new to us. The plan was to stop every hour for a break, especially since we could'nt check into our digs until the afternoon, so we had plenty of scope for stops. Our first stop was a coffee shop in some motorway services about 30k outside of Rotterdam
A nice relaxing place. In the pic above i think HBos is expecting a bloody good rogering (he was after all C4C)
We stopped a couple of times in various services and filling stations and took a wrong turn which added about 40 mile to the journey but we were still making good progress.
When we finally crossed the German border there was a definate change in scenery, it became very industrialised for the first 25 miles or so and then just bog standard motorways until our turn off (Ausfarht: not a town Zippy) it was then that the scenery
and the roads became absolutely stunning.Our digs, no that is too understated, our holiday home was fantastic and not what i was expecting at all, hats off to K.G for that one, the cottage was in beautiful surroundings, was clean and fantastically stocked with everythimg we could want or need.
We all thought that if this day was anything to go by, the next would be absolutely cracking,
bring it on..............
