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My bike. | Part of breakfast. |
My hotel for 2 days. |
Coffee in the 'Blue Moon'. |
While we were drinking coffee,
we saw this family leaving. |
Sander, just before he took off, back to Holland. |
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During the trip on Sunday, we met ing. Franco Lambertini, technical director of Moto Morini Spa. Unfortunately, I could not follow the discussion, as it was in Italian. |
Moto Morini 175cc Turismo (1953). |
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Werner brought a 'La Strega' T-shirt for ing. Lambertini.
He was happy to wear it and pose with it. (La Strega is the magazine of the German Moto Morini Club). |
Right to left: Werner, ing. Lambertini, yours truly. It was quite a pleasure to make my acquintance with Morini's
brilliant technical-director. Not only the new 1200cc v-twin is his design. In the 70s he created the 125/250/350/ 500cc v-twins and singles for Moto Morini. |
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On Sunday afternoon we left Morano-sul-Po, stayed overnight in Southern Germany and
on Monday afternoon we reached Würzburg. There it was time to say goodbye to my travelling companions, Werner and his girlfriend. Unloaded my Kanguro and from there, I went directly to the motorway and followed it in N/W direction to Frankfurt/Main. Near Koblenz, I went West, right into the (vulcan) Eifel Area. If you go West in the German Eifel area you 'bump' into the border with Belgium and ride straight into the Ardennes. It was my plan to cruise through the Ardennes and go home from there. |
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Quick stop with the German motorway in the background. |
I took exit 34 from the A61 motorway. Past Mayen, the B258 leads West. |
Travelling West on the B258. Looks like the roads are straight. Little further down this road the bends begun :-) First I had to pass a few hairpins! |
Near the famous Nürburgring racetrack, I found a small hotel. This was the view from the terrace. |
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Next day: the Ardennes area in Belgium. Small, winding, deserted roads. Just perfect, a very nice ride indeed. |
Made a stop at the warmuseum in La Gleize.
Together with an English guest, we were the only visitors. This small, but excellent museum is well worth a visit. Outside a German Kingtiger (Tiger II or Köningstiger) tank, which was left
by the Germans during the 'Battle of the Bulge'. This battle was fought in Dec. '44/Jan. '45 in the Belgium and Luxembourg Ardennes area. |
From La Gleize, I went home passing Liege, Maastricht, Roermond, Eindhoven, Tilburg,
Breda and Rotterdam.
All-in-all, I covered 1.334km's on the bike. Average fuel consumption was 4,35 l/100 km's, or 1 liter for 23 km's.
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