Germany May 2016 - Pictures

Just posting the pictures which kind of tell the story of my 5 days away. Loved every minute...apart from getting nicked for speeding on the M20 on the way to the eurotunnel

The Panzer loaded and ready.

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89mph on the motorway. 3 points heading my way.

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Quick coffee break on the E40 in Belgium.

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Bastogne in Belgium. I always stop here on the way to Neuerburg.

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Both taken in Luxembourg:

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The Schloss Hotel in Neuerburg.

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Somewhere in the Eifel on my way to Cochem.

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Has to be visited at least once while in the Eifel.

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This was parked in the car park of the petrol garage near the Nordschleife. It had Swiss number plates and was probably a rich man's track day tool.

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I think this was the road known as the 'Bitburg Strasse'

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Views from my hotel window.

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My favourite beer.

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It was really cold in the mornings but warmed up by mid-morning.

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Vianden in Luxembourg.

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Sometimes I just took pictures of awesome roads I'd discovered. They're ten a penny in this part of Germany.

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Cochem.

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Cochem.

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Curry Wurst!

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Breakfast at the Schloss. Even got black pudding on this particular morning!

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This is common here. Sometimes you ride through it or around it. I rode around it.

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Nurburgring

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Eifel National Park. Oh, those roads...

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By the lake near Simmerath.

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Monschau.

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Great pics

no list of places above them though

Great pics

no list of places above them though

Bear with me, I'll edit them Stu.

top man

Done. Sorry, haven't got time for a full report today but might add one to this thread as and when i can.

Looks like a fantastic trip!

I recognised the Cochem ones I have been there and the ring

some lovely places in Germany

You can never have enough:

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Only one.. i'd be disappointed.

aside from that.. it looks horrid.

The lake is the Eiserbachsee.. and you should count yourself lucky. you missed the the spaghetti bolognese icecream which they sell just a bit further round the lake shore.

You can never have enough:

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Only one.. i'd be disappointed.

aside from that.. it looks horrid.

The lake is the Eiserbachsee.. and you should count yourself lucky. you missed the the spaghetti bolognese icecream which they sell just a bit further round the lake shore.

Ugh. Yeah, it was awful

I recognised the Cochem ones I have been there and the ring

some lovely places in Germany

There certainly is. I was gutted to have to ride home today.

Looks like a fantastic trip!

There certainly is. I was gutted to have to ride home today.

I will probably feel the same at the beginning of July when we come back

Great pics rob!

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Great pics I think biking out there is so much better than over here, roads are better, not as much traffic and great scenery, I recognise some of them places and can't wait to get back out there.

Great pics rob!

Cheers mate!

Great pics I think biking out there is so much better than over here, roads are better, not as much traffic and great scenery, I recognise some of them places and can't wait to get back out there.

Absolutely, if I could I would do all my riding out there. I'm always disappointed when I get back to the UK, usually within 10 minutes of leaving the eurotunnel when some nimrod cuts me up on the M20

I will probably feel the same at the beginning of July when we come back

I can almost guarantee that Stu

Looks absolutely amazing!

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Absolutely, if I could I would do all my riding out there. I'm always disappointed when I get back to the UK, usually within 10 minutes of leaving the eurotunnel when some nimrod cuts me up on the M20.

Yup. I love riding on the continent, and arriving back in the UK is always a massive ball-ache: noddy motorway speed limit, cameras on every other bloody gantry, 50 mph average speed checks for mile after interminable sodding mile of roadworks where I have yet to see a stroke of work actually being done, night closures implemented with no concept of joined-up thinking (closing parts of the northbound M11, M1, A1 and westbound A14 all at the same time one night last year made getting from Folkestone to Harrogate a particularly tedious experience) and the worst road surfaces I've experienced outside of Kenya: some cats-eyes had been removed from a section of motorway I was on a couple weeks ago, and the gouges in the tarmac gave the distinct impression they'd been dug out with a JCB! And then there's the standard of the average British motorist to factor in to the equation, which in my experience is considerably lower than the rest of Europe, especially where bike awareness in slow moving traffic is concerned!

Absolutely, if I could I would do all my riding out there.

Yup. I love riding on the continent, and arriving back in the UK is always a massive ball-ache

This is a topic that deserves its own thread.

Awesome pics. I am insanely jealous!

Just playing around with iMovie and some of the video I took on my trip this week. This is an early morning ride from the hotel straight onto some great roads. The music isn't the usual stuff I listen to but I found the lyrics quite profound. I heard it on another youtube bike video and thought it summed up how I feel at the moment. After a marriage break up, selling my old bike, my house and other shit I've had to endure over the past 12 months, I've come to realise that life's too short, you just have to appreciate it and get out there and seize it.

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The worst thing about the road to Sinspelt is the decision you have to make.. turn right toward Vianden and Lux... or left toward Bitburg and beyond.. or carry on to Mettendorf and have even more decisions to make. The reality is... it doesn't matter. Just follow your nose.. its all good and more often than not: stunningly good. The same going the other way.. into and through the village. get to the junction with the L10 and which way? just follow your nose.. it doesnt matter.

I can think of a few who will look at that video and sigh.

Excellent.. as a first video you couldn't have chosen better.