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28. Andorra
Agh don’t go here on a weekend the hords of cross border shoppers are a nightmare. I think other than the tick mark we would have avoided this country.
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Enough messing about in the off season!! Time to ready to hit the road again April 7!!!
 DSC04125 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
This is the approximate route for April until the middle of September! After that we will walk the 860 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de Port France to Ribeira Spain on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela for 5-6 weeks.
 Summer Route 2016 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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See you on the road! but......
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After that we will walk the 860 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de Port France to Ribeira Spain on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela for 5-6 weeks.
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Whats all that about? will the petrol money have run out? I've ridden that route and looked on at the pilgrims with one question "why not get a bus" 
Or is the penance for having such a great time on the road for the last few years?
When we meet up in Italy remind me to tell you my Santiago de Compostela story!! Its funny (but not at the time)
Look forward to reading your resumed travel stories
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20 Mar 2016
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I know some great spots for a few bevies in Bassano del Grappa! Can not wait to see you both. Im sure it will be a great story you always tell them well. We will tell you Dan's Asiago tale then in its full glory. We will have to walk off all the pasta and ice cream!!! Cheers from warm and sunny Vancouver. Hugs to Fi
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The Shengen Zone
Well we are back on the road this week. Flying to Madrid April 7, 2016 and then traveling about 200 km south to get the bikes out of their winter storage in our friend Modesto’s garage. We have some maintenance to do including oil changes, some upgrades to the crash bar hardware, new chains and sprockets, install new headlights and rewire bike lighting, install voltage meters, install new wire harness for the 650, and remove the “tool tubes”.
We are also headed back to the Schengen Zone. WTF is the Schengen Zone you may ask? Well so did we. I have polled a lot of North Americans and none knew what it was or what the implications are for non-Schengen residents.
 Screen Shot 2016-04-01 at 12.13.49 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
We arrived last year to Madrid on March 1 and our passports were stamped “ Espania in by air”. When we picked up our bikes at the cargo terminal we signed a waver that we would take the bikes out of Spain in the next 6 months. Just like Argentina….. NOT
 IMG_5450 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
We traveled in Morocco March 25 to April 18 and were stamped out and into “Espania by boat”.
 IMG_5458 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
We then traveled to the UK May 4, where out passport stamp said “Leave to enter for six months, Employment and recourse to public funds prohibited”.
 IMG_5456 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
We entered the Netherlands “by boat” June 9. By now we had been in the “unknown Schengen Zone for 6 weeks. It was after we were in the middle of the north sea June 17 when we were telling our new Greek friends about out trip, when one of them asked “what are you doing about the Schengen problem”? We were like “Schenzen???” It was 2 days until we had internet to investigate this problem.
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28. Andorra
Agh don’t go here on a weekend the hords of cross border shoppers are a nightmare. I think other than the tick mark we would have avoided this country.
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I was in Andorra years ago and back then it was a duty free shopping mall. I can imagine today it's twice the mall it was 20 years ago.
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27 Oct 2016
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I was in Andorra years ago and back then it was a duty free shopping mall. I can imagine today it's twice the mall it was 20 years ago.
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It was horrible! just traffic and shops with cheap useless stuff! But at least I never have to go back. Cheers Sara
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27 Oct 2016
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We now have just a few days left until we drop the bikes at BMW on Monday, but that is enough time to make a small detour to Sinshiem to see our friend Wolfgang. He is stopping here in his home town on the way from Hamburg to Corsica. It is almost a direct straight line for us for 570 km.
 Screen Shot 2016-09-04 at 22.11.00 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
We did 2 hours on the highway and then put all the avoidance back on the GPS to get onto the small roads. Germany is so amazing for riding. Beautiful roads thru stunning scenery and picturesque villages. We then got back on the highway for the last 2 hours and unfortunately ran into some very bad traffic. We did a little “driving like the Italians” to get past the almost standstill over 10 km long. We arrived to the home of Wolfgang's brother and sister-in-law and we were welcomed like long lost family. Yvonne had prepared a very special dinner for us including Dampfnudela or steamed German dumplings! We of course then had to go out for ice cream.
 Dresden by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Dresden-3 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Dresden-2 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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27 Oct 2016
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Werner had a big day planned for us. We started with a visit to the Auto & Technik Museum. They have both the supersonic Air France Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144 on display and which you can access. There are 300 vintage cars, 40 race cars, 200 motorcycles, and 50 aircraft among other things.
 Germany-2 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Germany by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Germany-6 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Germany-14 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Germany-3 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Germany-4 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Dresden-7 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Germany-9 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Germany-10 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
They even have a Canadian water bomber that when you go inside it is set up to make you feel like you are diving down for water.
 Germany-5 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
The super slide is accessed from the door of a plane mounted on the roof of the museum.
 Dresden-5 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Dresden-6 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Dresden-10 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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This evening we drove over to Heidelberg for the annual illumination of the castle and fire works. We luckily secured a parking space and then got some tickets for the evening dinner cruise for the fireworks. We did a bit of a tour of the city, which had one lone pedestrian zone thru the city.
 Germany-16 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Germany-17 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Germany-19 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
We took the funicular to the castle.
 Germany-18 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Dresden-16 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Dresden-17 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
Sunset cruise
 Germany-20 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Germany-21 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Germany-22 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Germany-23 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Germany-24 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Dresden-19 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Germany-25 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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Today we have another straight shot 478 km north east to Leipzig.
 Screen Shot 2016-09-04 at 22.09.50 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
 Screen Shot 2016-09-04 at 22.12.28 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
The initial plan was to wander up the small roads and we did this for the first 2 hours. It then began to POUR rain and after 45 min of this we were finally able to get on the highway. Now this was not very pleasant with the heavy rain and the speed of the cars, but at least we were making some miles. Finally about 150 km from the city the rain stopped and we were able to get back off the highway.
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