OK boys and girls – they always say “plan early”, so here’s your first ‘heads up’ of what will be THE major tour of 2005.
The plan is that Tossers-on-Tour should circumnavigate the Baltic Sea during early June 2005 in a tour that will take in at least 11 different countries in a 2,500 road-mile 10 day tour.
The proposed itinerary (subject to finalisation) is:
Friday 3 June 2005, afternoon departure from Newcastle-upon-Tyne by overnight ferry to Kristiansand, Norway. From there, we will amble through the Scandinavian summer sun to Stockholm, Sweden, a 2-day leg of about 500 miles.
We will take the Baltic overnight ferry (do you remember the Estonia?) to Tallinn, Estonia (where the beer, vodka and fuel all become much cheaper) before riding south through Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Holland, Belgium to our homeward ferry from Calais, France. We will be back in England on Sunday, 12 June 2005.
En-route you will have the opportunity to see a number of places of interest which will include museums, historical buildings and, hopefully, a tour of the BMW Motorcycle plant in Berlin. A picture from Estonia is shown below.
Although largely unreccied, this will be a ‘fully managed’ tour with all hotels and ferries pre-booked. You will receive a roadbook and by guided by two experienced m/c tour guides (no names, to protect the as yet un-knobbled! )
You will need your own bike and kit and to have arranged for full EU insurance and breakdown recovery. As the entire tour takes place within the European Union, medical insurance should not be specifically required but will be strongly recommended.
This will be a popular tour but places will be limited. I will publish the cost of the tour for both solo rider and rider/pillion as soon as I am able.
I will be delighted to receive firm expressions of interest from now onwards, but, for the avoidance of doubt, you will be expected to make staged payments in full prior to departure.
Time-wasters, half-hearted tossers and those with weak livers should not apply! (Nor should any who can’t ride until they have effected a Technicolor Yawn into or near the toilet bowl! Only joking, Lucy!)
Greg
The plan is that Tossers-on-Tour should circumnavigate the Baltic Sea during early June 2005 in a tour that will take in at least 11 different countries in a 2,500 road-mile 10 day tour.
The proposed itinerary (subject to finalisation) is:
Friday 3 June 2005, afternoon departure from Newcastle-upon-Tyne by overnight ferry to Kristiansand, Norway. From there, we will amble through the Scandinavian summer sun to Stockholm, Sweden, a 2-day leg of about 500 miles.
We will take the Baltic overnight ferry (do you remember the Estonia?) to Tallinn, Estonia (where the beer, vodka and fuel all become much cheaper) before riding south through Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Holland, Belgium to our homeward ferry from Calais, France. We will be back in England on Sunday, 12 June 2005.
En-route you will have the opportunity to see a number of places of interest which will include museums, historical buildings and, hopefully, a tour of the BMW Motorcycle plant in Berlin. A picture from Estonia is shown below.
Although largely unreccied, this will be a ‘fully managed’ tour with all hotels and ferries pre-booked. You will receive a roadbook and by guided by two experienced m/c tour guides (no names, to protect the as yet un-knobbled! )
You will need your own bike and kit and to have arranged for full EU insurance and breakdown recovery. As the entire tour takes place within the European Union, medical insurance should not be specifically required but will be strongly recommended.
This will be a popular tour but places will be limited. I will publish the cost of the tour for both solo rider and rider/pillion as soon as I am able.
I will be delighted to receive firm expressions of interest from now onwards, but, for the avoidance of doubt, you will be expected to make staged payments in full prior to departure.
Time-wasters, half-hearted tossers and those with weak livers should not apply! (Nor should any who can’t ride until they have effected a Technicolor Yawn into or near the toilet bowl! Only joking, Lucy!)
Greg