Gwilym's Adventure Blog

Back Home after a painless ferry crossing. It was taken over by 200+ bikers with The Chopper Club on their way back from a meet in Germany Only 250 miles needed today but after an epic 5500 miles (even google maps can't show it all on one plan and doesn't account for some of the extra roads I did - this just shows the shortest possible route) I am back home, tired but happy. Going to Nordkapp via motorbike has been one of my goals for some time and it did not disappoint. Of course, being on the M25 at 8am was a bad as expected with a lot of filtering and sitting in queues. I have ridden through England, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Sweden. I have experienced cold (4 degrees), horizontal rain, gales (50mph + crosswinds on bridges) and heat (28/29 degrees). I have spent over 110 hrs on the bike, used 12 ferries, over 200km of tunnels and spent 13 nights in a tent. Roads were a mix of motorway, A r...

Another three country day today and 600km. Breakfast in Sweden, lunch in Denmark and tea (dinner) in Germany. What a lovely morning in Sweden so I chose to take the bridges to Denmark rather than the ferry. Shame the weather changed about 10km before the crossing and it was a wet and windy experience to say the least. That weather continued through most of Denmark along with congestion and roadworks so I just stuck to the motorway to get it done.  However, just before Germany it started to clear up. Now Germany is one of those countries that I have driven through a lot on the way to Italy, Austria and at the start of this trip and always on the motorways so as soon as I was over the border, I stopped, shed a few layers as it was up to a nice 23 degrees, hit the "curvy road" button and had 2 hours of amazing back roads (inc a small ferry). I even got the bike into Sport mode for the first time this trip which firms up the suspension and gives me...

Around 550km done today using the "curvy roads" function of the GPS. I woke up this morning cruising into Stockholm past another groups of islands and rode off the ferry at 6am straight through the city before rush hour and so had plenty of time to play with today. Some fast A roads and some very twisty C roads gave me a great journey as I headed down to Kristianstad though I really had no idea where I was most of the time as I really was in the depths of the countryside. The blue route above follows a major road that I crossed a few time so was in the right vicinity. I am staying here on the coast tonight and had a little paddle but it was too cold to swim. I think it is called the Baltic Sea for a reason. Three more days riding and I will be home. This part of the journey is just about getting to the ferry port but if I have time, I can play in the twisties and enjoy it as much as I can.