Here we go finally arrived where I wanted to be exactly one week later than planned, but on the way.
OFR-01 16.04
Start: 08:57 Finish: 16:03
Total km., for day: 691,4
Camped at: N64°17’25” E51°9’18”.
Started a week late because of some health problems that needed clearing up before I could set off. All clear has been sounded and away we go.
Filled up with diesel and oil, 1 litre used. I’ll be keeping tabs on this as I had a bit a scare the week before last and I need to make sure I’m not burning off too much oil.
Up the A46, onto the A2 and then joined up with the A44. This is only of interest to me as on the A44 I finally got a good fix on the area which has to be close to the largest Electrical Wind Park I have ever seen. The countryside it is in combined with the sheer number of wind towers should make for some good images with the right weather.
Clear, no traffic jams, run on bright sunshine until going round Leipzig and then then it was cats and dogs all the way through to Görlitz. Very little traffic though and it was an easy run. They must have run out of cats and dogs sometime in the night, but they still seemed to have a good supply as I nodded off.
Shopped for veggies and stuff, grabbed a meal and crashed at 20:00 and slept right through ‘till 06:30. Lovely.
OFR-02 17.04
Start: 06:30 Finish: 14:00
Total km., for day: 508,1
Camped at: 49.81233°N 20.68131°E. (Changing to this format as its easier to type).
Easy breakfast and clean up to hit the road at 08:33. Oil check ok, sigh!
From Görlitz onto the motorway is all of 5 minute drive and then it is just a straight bash down the motorway east all the way until turning south at Krakow. The final stretch, all of about 67 km., is on B roads but good ones. In Poland up to the start of the B road section had three tolls for a total of Zloty 36,20 which is about €8,70. Can’t complain about that. Cloudy all day.
Camped up under the Damm on the river where I have stayed about three times now. Nice and quiet.
OFR-03 18.04
Start: 06:00 Finish: 16:30
Total km., for day: 446,6
Camped at: N47.66091° E23.67543°.
Crashed early again last night kept nodding off trying to read and gave up at 20:30 and crept into the sack. Bright and sunny on waking and it has been that way all day. Actually hit 25ºC at some point.
Was on the road by 07:52 and crossed into Slovakia at 09:51, into Hungary at 12:51 and at the Romanian Boarder post at 14:45. Romania by the way is one our ahead of Germany. Going East after all.
Uneventful drive, the Polish drivers are fairly disciplined but once into SK/H and now RO there is a massive difference. You really need a head on a permanent swivel setting and assume that if there is a wrong and suicidal way of doing it, they will! Get used to it I guess, hope. Had to put another litre oil in.😏
Landed in a place called Baia Sprie in a complex going by the name of Rustic. Holiday sort of affair and they let me camp up for nowt, which is very kind of them I think.
Wait here tomorrow until a 1x Buddy pitches up and we shall be riding around together for a few days. Should be great as he is Romanian. Met him on the six day trip to Romania in Autumn 2017.
To the immediate south of were I am camped the fooothills to the mountains leading up into the Ukraine, and this is what is on the menu next few days.
OFR-01 16.04
Start: 08:57 Finish: 16:03
Total km., for day: 691,4
Camped at: N64°17’25” E51°9’18”.
Started a week late because of some health problems that needed clearing up before I could set off. All clear has been sounded and away we go.
Filled up with diesel and oil, 1 litre used. I’ll be keeping tabs on this as I had a bit a scare the week before last and I need to make sure I’m not burning off too much oil.
Up the A46, onto the A2 and then joined up with the A44. This is only of interest to me as on the A44 I finally got a good fix on the area which has to be close to the largest Electrical Wind Park I have ever seen. The countryside it is in combined with the sheer number of wind towers should make for some good images with the right weather.
Clear, no traffic jams, run on bright sunshine until going round Leipzig and then then it was cats and dogs all the way through to Görlitz. Very little traffic though and it was an easy run. They must have run out of cats and dogs sometime in the night, but they still seemed to have a good supply as I nodded off.
Shopped for veggies and stuff, grabbed a meal and crashed at 20:00 and slept right through ‘till 06:30. Lovely.
OFR-02 17.04
Start: 06:30 Finish: 14:00
Total km., for day: 508,1
Camped at: 49.81233°N 20.68131°E. (Changing to this format as its easier to type).
Easy breakfast and clean up to hit the road at 08:33. Oil check ok, sigh!
From Görlitz onto the motorway is all of 5 minute drive and then it is just a straight bash down the motorway east all the way until turning south at Krakow. The final stretch, all of about 67 km., is on B roads but good ones. In Poland up to the start of the B road section had three tolls for a total of Zloty 36,20 which is about €8,70. Can’t complain about that. Cloudy all day.
Camped up under the Damm on the river where I have stayed about three times now. Nice and quiet.
OFR-03 18.04
Start: 06:00 Finish: 16:30
Total km., for day: 446,6
Camped at: N47.66091° E23.67543°.
Crashed early again last night kept nodding off trying to read and gave up at 20:30 and crept into the sack. Bright and sunny on waking and it has been that way all day. Actually hit 25ºC at some point.
Was on the road by 07:52 and crossed into Slovakia at 09:51, into Hungary at 12:51 and at the Romanian Boarder post at 14:45. Romania by the way is one our ahead of Germany. Going East after all.
Uneventful drive, the Polish drivers are fairly disciplined but once into SK/H and now RO there is a massive difference. You really need a head on a permanent swivel setting and assume that if there is a wrong and suicidal way of doing it, they will! Get used to it I guess, hope. Had to put another litre oil in.😏
Landed in a place called Baia Sprie in a complex going by the name of Rustic. Holiday sort of affair and they let me camp up for nowt, which is very kind of them I think.
Wait here tomorrow until a 1x Buddy pitches up and we shall be riding around together for a few days. Should be great as he is Romanian. Met him on the six day trip to Romania in Autumn 2017.
To the immediate south of were I am camped the fooothills to the mountains leading up into the Ukraine, and this is what is on the menu next few days.
