This will be my last post in this blog, as I made it back home safe and sound and already planning the next three big events this year ;)
It was a really great trip and I was mostly blessed with good weather! I stilled my hunger for the road and quenched my thirst for adventure (at least for the moment ;)
first a few numbers:
I travelled over 7000km through 10 countries in 4 weeks (it's a small step to participate on an actually rally now ;)
Countries (in bracket are those that I was just trespassing and didn't spend a night)
Switzerland - Italy - Albania - (Greece) - Albania - Macedonia - Albania - Montenegro - Bosnia - Croatia - Slovenia - (Italy) - Austria - (Italy) - Switzerland
assuming that my bike uses 4.5lt/100km I needed 375lts of gasoline and spend about 450CHF to travel. Another 500CHF was tires and some maintaining the bike.
I spent approximately 2100CHF in 30 days, so I that's a 70 Euro per day in average. That's totally fine, thinking of that I was scuba diving, horse back riding, ziplining, paragliding, visited lots of churches and fortresses, slept well, eat lots of yummi food, took a ferry ride and bought some souvenirs.
For I knew nothing about these countries before, I learned a big deal about them now and I feel I covered as much as possible in this very limited ammount of time! Now I'm really happy to be back and to pick up the many things I left here behind.
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I drove to Ljubljana in one day from the bay of Split. This time I took the roads through the hills instead of following the cost (was really nice!) twice I almost got busted for speeding, but I didn't exceed the speed limit enough that they would have stopped me (fortunately, because I would not have had any money to pay the fine). But still.. didn't encounter cops on the road the whole time until then.
I stopped at the Plitvicer lakes and wanted to take some pictures. But you need to pay 15 Euro to get in and should reserve a whole day to check out the place (it's very touristy though and the 100 hotels they built in the area are probably quite pricy). So I sneaked in to get a glimps of it, but didn't dare to proceed as I had no ticket. Bummer.. I really wanted to see them, but I didn't know that you can't just circle them on a bike. Anyway.. got one or two shots and was an experience. I also wanted to get to Ljubljana to take care of the transmission chain.
When I got there I just passed the Yamaha dealership and they helped me to find a hostel in town. It was a great idea to check in in that place! mets lot of great people and had really good times!! (went out for drinking at night and had a good laugh! ;). The next day (a bit hangovery), I took care of that chain. When I got to the garage, there was another guy on a newer Tenere and he knew a lot more than I did, so with his help, I managed to reduce the rattling sound without buying a new chain. Tightened some screws and got a lot of information about the bike and some good ideas how to improve my equipment (spares, tools.. etc).
the same day I drove to Skocjan cave, where you can walk through on a guided tour and it was really impressive! As the weather was not suitable for skydiving, this was the second best thing to do in Slovenia. Then on the way back, I caught some rain, but with no luggage and good equipment, it was not so bad. Again going out at night and having fun! ;D ..next day packing up and checking out some caves (there are 11 400 in Slovenia ;) with my new friend Sebastian from Germany (riding a very old bike, but also being traveling on his own). Together with Liz from the states, we had a great day! having lunch (some sandwiches) in pitch black inside a cave :) great experience!!
I made my way up then to Villach in Austria. Was still quite a long ride and I arrived there after 8PM (getting tired along the way, but suddenly waking up again). The night at the lake was boring as boring can be.. but as I was so tired, I didn't really care.
Then there were only 660km between me and my home and I made it all in one day.. started at 6AM and got here around 7PM.. at least being 11hours driving. I didn't get any more rain until 2 hours away from home. Then it pissed down and I had to take the highway.. that was aweful! but anyway.. managed to get here. After 100km there was a traffic jam on the highway and I had to take small roads to get back. It was a victory I had to fight for, but nevertheless I made it back and took a hot bath and fell tired in my (own) bed! Feels good to have successfully completed this trip!!
There are a lot of beautiful roads between here and Albania and I mostly enjoyed riding very much! (only having a few times some rain and me or my stuff never got wet). For the moment, it's okay though to be off the bike ;) haha ;)
All that I need to do now is sorting my stuff out and organizing my trip to Finland, the festival on the next weekend and Burning Man (and some more festivals and LARPs). I got so many plans and tasks on my list.. I will be busy the whole summer. but I LOVE it! :D
as a little sneak-peak onto coming roadtrips of mine, this is what I still got in mind:
- Chamonix - Ardeche - Pirenaes (climbing trip with my friend together)
- Bretagne - Wales, Scottland, Ireland (in June probably ;)
- Rumania and Ural (then somehow circling back)
- Trieste - shipping to Albania and drive around the Mediterran Sea and back over Gibraltar
- finally (and probaly not to realize because other plans in my life): Russia, Mongolia, Kyrgistan, Kasachstan etc. to India and China (if even possible on a bike). That would bring it up to a good ammount of Km on my bike ;)
but I already know: Yamaha Tenere is my favorite bike!! cheaper than KTM and BMW, but can be fixed everywhere and extremely reliable!! (in the end, it didn't fail me once.. and I had some moments where I would have been pretty fucked if my bike would have broken down ;)
okay.. sorting the last pictures and letting the experience settle in. Now I could use some holidays ;) haha ;)
It was a really great trip and I was mostly blessed with good weather! I stilled my hunger for the road and quenched my thirst for adventure (at least for the moment ;)
first a few numbers:
I travelled over 7000km through 10 countries in 4 weeks (it's a small step to participate on an actually rally now ;)
Countries (in bracket are those that I was just trespassing and didn't spend a night)
Switzerland - Italy - Albania - (Greece) - Albania - Macedonia - Albania - Montenegro - Bosnia - Croatia - Slovenia - (Italy) - Austria - (Italy) - Switzerland
assuming that my bike uses 4.5lt/100km I needed 375lts of gasoline and spend about 450CHF to travel. Another 500CHF was tires and some maintaining the bike.
I spent approximately 2100CHF in 30 days, so I that's a 70 Euro per day in average. That's totally fine, thinking of that I was scuba diving, horse back riding, ziplining, paragliding, visited lots of churches and fortresses, slept well, eat lots of yummi food, took a ferry ride and bought some souvenirs.
For I knew nothing about these countries before, I learned a big deal about them now and I feel I covered as much as possible in this very limited ammount of time! Now I'm really happy to be back and to pick up the many things I left here behind.
....
I drove to Ljubljana in one day from the bay of Split. This time I took the roads through the hills instead of following the cost (was really nice!) twice I almost got busted for speeding, but I didn't exceed the speed limit enough that they would have stopped me (fortunately, because I would not have had any money to pay the fine). But still.. didn't encounter cops on the road the whole time until then.
I stopped at the Plitvicer lakes and wanted to take some pictures. But you need to pay 15 Euro to get in and should reserve a whole day to check out the place (it's very touristy though and the 100 hotels they built in the area are probably quite pricy). So I sneaked in to get a glimps of it, but didn't dare to proceed as I had no ticket. Bummer.. I really wanted to see them, but I didn't know that you can't just circle them on a bike. Anyway.. got one or two shots and was an experience. I also wanted to get to Ljubljana to take care of the transmission chain.
When I got there I just passed the Yamaha dealership and they helped me to find a hostel in town. It was a great idea to check in in that place! mets lot of great people and had really good times!! (went out for drinking at night and had a good laugh! ;). The next day (a bit hangovery), I took care of that chain. When I got to the garage, there was another guy on a newer Tenere and he knew a lot more than I did, so with his help, I managed to reduce the rattling sound without buying a new chain. Tightened some screws and got a lot of information about the bike and some good ideas how to improve my equipment (spares, tools.. etc).
the same day I drove to Skocjan cave, where you can walk through on a guided tour and it was really impressive! As the weather was not suitable for skydiving, this was the second best thing to do in Slovenia. Then on the way back, I caught some rain, but with no luggage and good equipment, it was not so bad. Again going out at night and having fun! ;D ..next day packing up and checking out some caves (there are 11 400 in Slovenia ;) with my new friend Sebastian from Germany (riding a very old bike, but also being traveling on his own). Together with Liz from the states, we had a great day! having lunch (some sandwiches) in pitch black inside a cave :) great experience!!
I made my way up then to Villach in Austria. Was still quite a long ride and I arrived there after 8PM (getting tired along the way, but suddenly waking up again). The night at the lake was boring as boring can be.. but as I was so tired, I didn't really care.
Then there were only 660km between me and my home and I made it all in one day.. started at 6AM and got here around 7PM.. at least being 11hours driving. I didn't get any more rain until 2 hours away from home. Then it pissed down and I had to take the highway.. that was aweful! but anyway.. managed to get here. After 100km there was a traffic jam on the highway and I had to take small roads to get back. It was a victory I had to fight for, but nevertheless I made it back and took a hot bath and fell tired in my (own) bed! Feels good to have successfully completed this trip!!
There are a lot of beautiful roads between here and Albania and I mostly enjoyed riding very much! (only having a few times some rain and me or my stuff never got wet). For the moment, it's okay though to be off the bike ;) haha ;)
All that I need to do now is sorting my stuff out and organizing my trip to Finland, the festival on the next weekend and Burning Man (and some more festivals and LARPs). I got so many plans and tasks on my list.. I will be busy the whole summer. but I LOVE it! :D
as a little sneak-peak onto coming roadtrips of mine, this is what I still got in mind:
- Chamonix - Ardeche - Pirenaes (climbing trip with my friend together)
- Bretagne - Wales, Scottland, Ireland (in June probably ;)
- Rumania and Ural (then somehow circling back)
- Trieste - shipping to Albania and drive around the Mediterran Sea and back over Gibraltar
- finally (and probaly not to realize because other plans in my life): Russia, Mongolia, Kyrgistan, Kasachstan etc. to India and China (if even possible on a bike). That would bring it up to a good ammount of Km on my bike ;)
but I already know: Yamaha Tenere is my favorite bike!! cheaper than KTM and BMW, but can be fixed everywhere and extremely reliable!! (in the end, it didn't fail me once.. and I had some moments where I would have been pretty fucked if my bike would have broken down ;)
okay.. sorting the last pictures and letting the experience settle in. Now I could use some holidays ;) haha ;)
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