Category Archives: France

Back in the Schengen

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We had a great experience with Carrie at Motorcycle Express!  The bikes were very well secured with way too many tie down straps, but each one was completely padded. The bikes arrived at Cargo city less than an hour from touchdown at Charle de Gaulle Airport.… Read the rest

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A little sightseeing while we wait.

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We had a couple of days to explore while waiting for the bike to arrive. The first day the weather was stellar sunny but not too hot. We got a bolt into the city and started our day at the Arc de Triomphe and then  we strolled down the Champs Elysee.… Read the rest

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And we are off again!

 

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We are all packed and ready to hit the road. We are shipping the BMW 1250 to Paris. The first step is taking the ferry off the island. Dan rode the bike over with the panniers and dry bag and I went as a foot passenger with 2 almost empty pieces of luggage.… Read the rest

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More of Corsica and then Sardinia

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The forecast is still sketchy, but despite that we woke to sunshine again.

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After a brief stop for gas and then at a bakery of coffee and a croissant we were excited to see the wild west coast of Corsica. We planned a 255 km route to stick as much as possible along the shore to Propriano.… Read the rest

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The round about way to Corsica

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We have booked ferry tickets to Bastia,Corsica from Livorno, Italy. We chose this crossing since it is only 4 1/2 hours and leaves and arrives in the day time. The more southern crossing to Sardinia is an overnight ferry with the need for an expensive stateroom.… Read the rest

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Avigonon, Monaco, and north in France

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Today is is sunny again but only 10 degrees. We had to put the gas for the stove in the 800 to make it to the gas station since we had not seen one on the way into town! We had 287 km and 3.5 hours to go on the small roads to Avignon.… Read the rest

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To the coast of Spain at Alicante and north to Carcassone, France.

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We had a 468 KM drive to the south west coast of Spain to our friends town Los Areneles del Sol, that is just south of the port city of Alicante. We pressed for 5 hours on the highway and made it in good time.… Read the rest

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Madrid again?! The last post of 2015!!!

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Heading south again it was 2 degrees leaving the Bordeaux region. We backtracked to Roquefort and then veered west to Pau. From here we left the vineyard and headed into the hills again. There is a 7 km long tunnel that starts in France and ends in Spain.… Read the rest

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A Chateau in Bordeaux

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We had a rainy night and it was still lightly raining in the morning. We had been invite to stay with some friends in a Chateau near Bordeaux. We had first met Anne and Peter at “the end of the road” in Ushuaia.… Read the rest

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The Pyrenees

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We headed out late at 11 am north again towards the Pyrenees in France. We planned out route to cross Andorra for country number 43!

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We had the perfect storm and over 2 hours in bumper-to-bumper traffic thru Andorra. It is a Saturday and the cross border shoppers are here in droves, the tunnel is closed so all the traffic in on one road, there is a big sporting event on, the boarder guards were spot-checking cars on the road after the slow down for the actual border, and there was a police check after that!… Read the rest

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