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Overland Travel, Expedition & Adventure Information for 4x4, motorcycle and truck overlanders
For this post, and several more to come, I am going to talk a little bit about my employer, Grand European Tours, and the tours Jim & I have experienced with them. Yes, this is a bit of a deviation from the normal content, but never fear, I’ll still be talking travel! I started with Grand European Tours in 1997…
Position: 43 30′ 10″ north, 16 26′ 53″ east Distance from Sydney: 16,221 km Travelling does strange things to the passage of time (no, no, this isn’t an elaborate excuse around why it’s been two weeks before an update from the road). Travel speeds time, but at the same time compresses. We’ve been travelling two weeks now, and on the…
Owing to our delayed departure and a pressing need to ‘Rush to Russia’ to maximize our visa validity we motored the first part of Europe- England to Denmark- at quite a pace. Our passports were literally swept from the postman and into our rucksack on Thursday then we hot-footed it down to Dover and watched the white cliffs fade into…
I had not heard of the Super Rally ® before now, but I did know that the H-D clubs are just as big in the EU as they are back in the U.S., if not bigger. I hadn’t planned to go, as is usual with most of my journey so far, but at the last minute I thought well, what…
Wow what a place a great city very cool and so much modern history. Yesterday we did the hoponhopoff bus tour it was a great way to get round the whole city and see some of the main sites and the guide was pretty ok alternating between German and English. We got to see the Berlin Wall where its still…
So the last week or so has not been as fullon exciting like Morocco but we have done some amazing rides been over 5 passes in the alps and crossed into 5 countries We basically sped through Italy to a camp in the Dolomites then took it easy going off motorway and following the squiggly roads through the Alps. We…