In essex now, about 400 miles later. Been riding since 4am. :-(
Learnt a few lessons though...
1) Never ride in Belgium! Nice place, crap roads. You can be doing *cough* mph on the motorway and suddenly the road disappears 3ft from under you. Then your bike obviously drops to the road again, leaving you flying in the air! Weeeee lol.
2) Learn to use your GPS before setting off! Had it set to avoid highways... and as such i spent 250 miles going around farmers fields, back lanes, tracks and roads that can't even fit a car! If it was daytime and i didn't have a train to catch then it would have been great! BUT - with hundreds of miles to go, you don't know how much i wanted to see a motorway (GPS kept sending me under, over, alongside them tho! Dammit).
3) Don't expect to see a petrol station in France as often as the UK!
4) Dont get to the train first, they make you wait for all the cars to load before puttin you in at the end. How annoying.
5) Don't clean your bike, set your scotoiler wrong, then travel hundreds of miles.... it gets everywhere! lol.
6) Only expect speed cameras in the UK. And turn off GPS warnings. Had a permanent speed camera zone alarm from Folkstone to Essex! Yet not one all through Holland, Belgium and France.
7) Learn how to ask for the toilet in French, so you don't have to stand there pointing to your crotch at a petrol station to get the point accross haha.
All in all a fun experience. Travelled through 4 countries in as many hours, speaking 3 languages. Pretty stressful though if you have one of the European motorway routes closed, sends your GPS into a "Lets go visit some farmers" frenzy.
Going getting some sleep now, im shattered.
Flame - I was thinking the same! What terrible minds we have! LOL!...Matt could have been asking for anything!!!! LOL!
At least you are here Matt, that is the main thing...so glad it is not just me that seems to have these "adventures"!
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