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how much experience do you think is necessary before anyone should attempt a ride over to the continent?
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Enough to ride safely in the UK. And the ability to remember to ride on the correct (right) side of the road on the continent.
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Enough to ride safely in the UK. And the ability to remember to ride on the correct (right) side of the road on the continent.
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This is probably the best answer, just go over to France and take a ride around and set no 'end of day' targets and just enjoy.
Quote;Thanks for all the responses - very helpful (well most of them  ). Based on the feedback and some doubts I was having (which is why I posted initially) I have decided to do something more modest for my first tour. Haven't decided what to do yet but possibly a run over to northern France {quote}
So which responses were not helpful? Was it the ones that suggested you were a little ambitious in your proposed trip?
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Thessaloniki is a 5 day trip without to much stress, We used the ferry back from Ignoumenista to Ancona, its an overnight crossing run by Superfast, excellent, thoroughly reccomend it, so we left Thessaloniki one morning, had lunch in the mountains and were in Ancona the following morning (not a stressful day), Italy can be very busy around that part though so even using the Autostrada (expensive) there seems to be many hours in the saddle to achieve big distances
It's doable but if your not used to it you will find it a bit of a marathon!
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I have ridden from Newcastle to Venice (where you get the Ferry to Corfu then mainland Greece). The riding bit was two solid, very long days on a 1200GS which much of it at 80mph. The ferry took another 1.5 days.
In other words ... don't do it!
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