Well, here we are... Back again after a wonderful 8 days in Europe (mostly germany)
We left on Wednesday 18th to travel down to Dover and spent a good night at the Dell hotel. Then on Thursday morning we took the 1100 sailing of Speed1 from Dover to Bolougne... The weather was dull/gray/overcast, with light drizzle...Yuk !! After a 50 minute crossing we disembarked from the supercat ferry and went to the carpark to get our waterproofs on... In the carpark, I siad to Jan that it was clearing up, and we didnt bother putting the wetproofs on...
Good job we didnt, as the sun came out & stayed with us until we got to Koln some 300 miles (and 4 countries) later. We spent a nice evening at the Ibis hotel in Koln, then met Siggi & Ronnie for the run to Alsfeld... Good company, good roads & good weather took us the 150 miles to our destination in the village of Eudorf, where the treffen was being held...
Here is Jan outside the hotel with the bike
After a good feed on Friday evening for a total of 10 euros each & rather a lot too drink (Alsfelder pils & Asbach brandy) We rose on Saturday morning with a bit of a thick head...OOoooh !!!:h
)930, and we left on the "tour"... 170 miles of wonderful mountain roads a a quite reasonable speed for the 107 blackbirds which were in the group...We visited a bikers res stop in the forest (below)
After this we went up to the top of MontSchiede for our lunch (consisting of Bratworst, bbq pork steaks, & bratkartoffeln(fried tatties)) hosted by a group of great hells angels, who were brilliant fun...LOL
After lunch, we had the games which entailed rider & pillion riding under a string over the track with a sausage hung from it... The pillion had to get a bite of the sausage without using her hands.....Bloody hilarious, and maybe one for next years bash.....ROFL
Saturday night brought the ever familiar feast & games..... With more food than you could eat in a month of sundays... We chatted, ate, drank, danced, ourselves untill the wee hours including a "Miss Double X" contest (for the blokes.....) Jans dress came in 2nd one one of our german friends although he had to pad the bra out a lot with tissues...Thong & tights provided by another obliging young lady....Pic below.
The raffle ended the nights entertainment... The top prize being a Schuberth S1 crash helmet, 2nd prize an electronic chain lube system wirth 270euros.., with plenty more on offer...
Sunday came & we said a sad goodbye to our German friends, as they left the hotel for home... One of our friends has offered us his villa in Spain, so we can go and watch the MotGP in November..(Good old Jurgen)
next years meet is in the Harz mountains in the north in August, and we will be going for a full 2 weeks that time, as we have so many people to stay with, and we dont want to upset them by not going to someones house to stay...LOL
We left on Wednesday 18th to travel down to Dover and spent a good night at the Dell hotel. Then on Thursday morning we took the 1100 sailing of Speed1 from Dover to Bolougne... The weather was dull/gray/overcast, with light drizzle...Yuk !! After a 50 minute crossing we disembarked from the supercat ferry and went to the carpark to get our waterproofs on... In the carpark, I siad to Jan that it was clearing up, and we didnt bother putting the wetproofs on...
Good job we didnt, as the sun came out & stayed with us until we got to Koln some 300 miles (and 4 countries) later. We spent a nice evening at the Ibis hotel in Koln, then met Siggi & Ronnie for the run to Alsfeld... Good company, good roads & good weather took us the 150 miles to our destination in the village of Eudorf, where the treffen was being held...
Here is Jan outside the hotel with the bike
After a good feed on Friday evening for a total of 10 euros each & rather a lot too drink (Alsfelder pils & Asbach brandy) We rose on Saturday morning with a bit of a thick head...OOoooh !!!:h
)930, and we left on the "tour"... 170 miles of wonderful mountain roads a a quite reasonable speed for the 107 blackbirds which were in the group...We visited a bikers res stop in the forest (below)
After this we went up to the top of MontSchiede for our lunch (consisting of Bratworst, bbq pork steaks, & bratkartoffeln(fried tatties)) hosted by a group of great hells angels, who were brilliant fun...LOL
After lunch, we had the games which entailed rider & pillion riding under a string over the track with a sausage hung from it... The pillion had to get a bite of the sausage without using her hands.....Bloody hilarious, and maybe one for next years bash.....ROFL
Saturday night brought the ever familiar feast & games..... With more food than you could eat in a month of sundays... We chatted, ate, drank, danced, ourselves untill the wee hours including a "Miss Double X" contest (for the blokes.....) Jans dress came in 2nd one one of our german friends although he had to pad the bra out a lot with tissues...Thong & tights provided by another obliging young lady....Pic below.
The raffle ended the nights entertainment... The top prize being a Schuberth S1 crash helmet, 2nd prize an electronic chain lube system wirth 270euros.., with plenty more on offer...
Sunday came & we said a sad goodbye to our German friends, as they left the hotel for home... One of our friends has offered us his villa in Spain, so we can go and watch the MotGP in November..(Good old Jurgen)
next years meet is in the Harz mountains in the north in August, and we will be going for a full 2 weeks that time, as we have so many people to stay with, and we dont want to upset them by not going to someones house to stay...LOL
