The Long way home
Great event report Charles and great pictures Sarah and Steven.
Thanks a lot for 3 great days in the Pyrenees. It was great fun. Hope you all made it home well.
Lars and I stayed in La Molina 2 more days. Since Lars injured his back, he stayed home Friday and rested, while I took off with the Irish Mountain King Gerry for another off road experience.
We managed to find our way over Coll de Pall to Baga and it was just great. There'll be footage on Youtube later. We did a lot of Kodak Moment stops and just enjoyed the view and tried to stay out off the way of the Livestock.
Saturday Gerry stayed and helped me switch back to road tyres. (no pintches this time thanks to Gerry's vintage Dunlop tyre levers!) and then he took off for new adventures - and apparently he meet up with more hard riding ladies!
Lars and stayed in HG La Molina another day and headed back North Sunday morning. We decided to take the loooong way back through the French, Italian and Austrian part of the alps. Did a detour to the Verdon Gorge (Highly recommendable), further to Barolo in Piemonte. From there to the Stelvio pass in the Dolomites. Absolutely phenomenal, however a bit chilli in 2 degrees celcius and snow.
Later up through Bavaria, where we were met with full day rain + full day queue on the German Autobahn. We had rainsuits, warm clothes, heated handles and still we were cold and felt sorry for ourselves, untill we met a couple in leather suits, no rain gear, no heated handles, completely soaked with purple hands. Ush! Don't know how they did it.
Halfway through Germany the BMW got hot and made funny sounds and a bit north of Kassel in the middle of yet another queue she couldnt take it no more. Guess she wanted to stay in her home country. And so she did. Thanks to expensive insurance, I got a rental car home (music, cup holder, air condition... what a walk in the park). Lars continued on the Honda and we arrived home late last night. BMW will hopefully be fixed by very cheap and very efficient German BMW expert and arrive in a few days (pleeease!)
Take care everybody.
Hugs from Henriette
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