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September 3rd, 2010 | Europe

Cracking thru to Krakow…

The Poles have a few weird names for places as well, and there are the Polish Prancers to avoid while you are reading them…!!

The first part of the ride wound through a thickly forested area, before this gave way to miles of apple orchards…

I do not recall too much […]

September 3rd, 2010 | Europe

A Fond Farewell…

The dark glasses hid a pair of red-rimmed eyes, courtesy of the Polish vodka that had beaten me up the night before…!!

I vaguely remember arranging to visit Dariusz at his bakery before leaving for Krakow…

Vaguely being the operative word…!! After breakfast and a short walk, I prepared to leave Osieck, packing […]

September 2nd, 2010 | Europe

Wet in Warsaw…

Handing over a sparkling Big Fella… Lukas and Piotr did Auto Fus proud…!!

The rain just wouldn’t quit…!! It fell all day, making my ride south to Osieck a bit of a mission…

I collected the Big Fella from BMW, happy to see that he sported his new set of Michelin Anarkee 2 […]

August 31st, 2010 | Europe

TLC for the Big Fella…

It's 5.45 am for Pete's sake…!! The last time the Big Fella had been on the road this early, was when we left Egypt to ride to the Libyan border…

Piotr begins stripping the Big Fella down…

I was up at 5.00am, stumbling around the room, gathering up the things I […]

August 30th, 2010 | Europe

Pulling in to Poland…

The Polish frontier, where I sailed though without buying the "Viniette", a kind of toll permit to ride on Polands Highways…!!

We crossed the border into Poland near the village of Podwajponie, midway between the Russian and Belarus borders, those two destinations still on my mind, the disappointment of passing them by a […]