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Re: Centenary Memorial Poppy Tour 2014 - rustyrider - 22-08-14
Despite me being the guide, Steve, his mate and the poppy(s) arrived safely at Harwich ferry port just before 8am this morning.......
From the state of his mate it would appear that a Fazer is more comfortable for long journeys than an SV650
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Re: Centenary Memorial Poppy Tour 2014 - adeejaysdelight - 23-08-14
Ha. Hilarious. He was a bit of a mess :lol . He has recovered well with some nice food and a good sleep.
Thanks for meetig up rusty, and sorry for keeping you so long.
Today we depart Rotterdam and head to nurburg. Tee hee
Re: Centenary Memorial Poppy Tour 2014 - fireblake - 23-08-14
(23-08-14, 08:39 AM)adeejaysdelight link Wrote:Ha. Hilarious. He was a bit of a mess :lol . He has recovered well with some nice food and a good sleep.All the best Steve, I'll be thinking of you guys and hopefully everyone cope well with the miles.
Thanks for meetig up rusty, and sorry for keeping you so long.
Today we depart Rotterdam and head to nurburg. Tee hee
Take care
Mickey
Re: Centenary Memorial Poppy Tour 2014 - adeejaysdelight - 29-08-14
So the rain went for a week solid till we got to Italy. Rotterdam is nice. The nurburgring was a wash out. We managed one lap in the rain and one in the dry/sh. We were there for a few nights too. Then it was down to lake Constance in a storm. Never even clapped eyes on the lake itself. A quick stop over in what can only be described as a hippy commune, and off to trento via the stelvio pass. I'll get up some from the new camera once im home. We are now in bagni di Lucca in Tuscany sitting having a coffee with my mate, the sun is out and suddenly that 2000 miles in the rain has all become a distant memory.
Re: Centenary Memorial Poppy Tour 2014 - slimwilly - 29-08-14
Keep on riding boys,,,and now you got sunshine too
Re: Centenary Memorial Poppy Tour 2014 - fireblake - 30-08-14
FOC it. We've just had a week in Barga, about 30 clicks ish from Lucca. It would of been great to meet you guys. We've been to Lucca 4 or 5 times this week.
Mickey
Re: Centenary Memorial Poppy Tour 2014 - adeejaysdelight - 01-09-14
That was about 15 kilometres from where we were, which was Bagni di Lucca. Some nice roads there, eah? We are in Aosta now, and heading to Switzerland tomorrow for a jolly. It feels like there is a storm coming here though. There were restaurant chairs blowing across the piatza. Nice wee toon though.
Re: Centenary Memorial Poppy Tour 2014 - adeejaysdelight - 27-09-14
Sorry for the late reply here fellas. I got back from the Euro-tour on the 7th and was off to Ibiza with my good lady a couple of days later. Then back for 1 day and took my Mum to Berlin for here 60th. So now I home, back to work and back to normal :'( .
The tour was fantastic, and a success with regards to the poppy making it to its destination on time. Thank you to all for the sponsorship. If anyone cares to donate, the page is still live...
Unfortunately it rained more or less from leaving Glasgow, through England, Holland, Belgium, Germany and Austria. About 8 days, with the odd hour of respite here and there. The rain broke for a couple of hours whilst we were at the ring, so we managed a couple of laps. However, the track was closed most of the day because there were so many accidents, some pretty serious too.
The Stelvio pass was amazing, the view spectacular. However the SP85 near Trento is a better road. If you like your twstys, that's the one for you.
Thiepval memorial and Locknagar bomb crater were beautiful places to visit. Quite moving really, when you think of all those people and what they did.
My new camera worked a treat and I managed about 7-800 pictures. But the file size is too large for me to upload them here, so it's just as well I took 132 with my phone.
Thanks again for the sponsorship guys. Its for a really good cause.
Re: Centenary Memorial Poppy Tour 2014 - adeejaysdelight - 27-09-14
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Re: Centenary Memorial Poppy Tour 2014 - mickvp - 27-09-14
Mate, upload your pics to photobucket/Flickr etc and copy the links over inside img tags, it will shrink and compress your photos so you can post them up on here from your good camera
(Flickr doesn't compress pics as heavily as photobucket so photo quality is slightly higher from there - both are free!)
Re: Centenary Memorial Poppy Tour 2014 - mickvp - 27-09-14
Some great pics so far though
Re: Centenary Memorial Poppy Tour 2014 - fireblake - 27-09-14
Glad you made it ok, shame about the crappy weather and not seeing you when i was in Italy. great photos too.
Mickey