Eastern Europe Tour start 22 Apr - 3 weeks
Hey all
Due to the weird and wonderful collection of bank holidays we get in the UK from 22 April I am taking 3 weeks off and want to tour the remainder of countries I haven't seen in Europe...so starting from London ride as fast to areas of border between Poland/Lithuania then onto Latvia, Estonia, Belorus, Ukraine then cross to Romania via Moldova followed by Bulgaria and swing back to London via Serbia. I have travelled all the other countries reasonably well so this is the last lot out of Europe.
So I have roughly 21 days, total distance roughly 9000 (not counting UK miles)...so given the first 1700km (to Poland) and last 1300km (from Graz) which I intend to do in 4 days total respectively...leaves me with 6000km over 16 days, so less than 400km per day (which is a nice roughly 5-6 hour run)
So thats first option
Calais, France to Calais, France - Google Maps
The other option is to avoid Bulgaria and Serbia which is option 2 which is effectively a 1000km shorter....
Calais, France to Calais, France - Google Maps
So have a few questions/concerns:
Does anyone know if there are still issues with roadblocks etc in some of these countries (where you have to pay to get through etc)
How safe to ride by myself (I can handle meself but dont want to be foolish either)
I will be riding a modded cruiser so whats the conditions of the roads like?
And finally would appreciate any tips or recommendations for sights etc
Incidently if anyone is mad/keen enough to come along let me know...as mentioned my time limit is roughly 3 weeks
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