Europe tour with Russia for 8 weeks starting 1st July 2013
 

Hi,
I'm looking for travellers to join me on any part of my trip. I'm leaving on 1st July 2013. I'm British but live in Sweden. So my plan is to head down to Germany , Poland then up to Estonia and into russia( st Petersburg and Moscow ) . Then Ukraine, Romania and Greece. Ferry to Italy and head home. Depending how much time I have left, maybe do a little zig zag up to Sweden. I want to ride almost everyday. My dad lives in Greece so will stop there for a few days. (You are also welcome). I would like to camp as much as possible but if there's cheap accommodation then I will use it. Try and stay of the major roads and take in the scenery.
Just looking to have a nice time, no stress if I can help it, meet some nice people, few beers in the evening. I've got a Honda dominator 650. And I'm 30yrs, male.
If your intersted please get in touch and my exacted route isn't set in stone so if your doing a similar trip it would be good to hear from you.
Thanks
Neil

Hi Neil, I leave the UK on the 9th July, planning on doing Germany for 7-10 days then heading East. I have visas for Belarus & Russia and my loose plan is as follows-

After Germany transit through Czech Republic, Poland and into Ukraine (Kiev). Do the Chernobyl tour then North into Belarus. Probably spend 4 days In Belarus then North into the Baltic states. Spend as long as it takes to do Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia then into Finland. May spend a few days in Finland then East into Russia. Spend 1/2 days in St Petersburg, 2/3 days in Moscow then South towards Volgograd/Astrakhan and into Georgia for the Military Highway. From there into Turkey and end up on the Black Sea with the intention of doing Crimea if time permits otherwise a run around Romania & Bulgaria in a slow Northerly direction.

I'm hooking up with a guy from this forum for the Germany part of the trip, we will go our separate ways at some stage after that, I know he hasn't got visas for Belarus or Russia.
he (Steve) is planning on camping but I'm going for hotels/hostels all the way. I'm keen to hook up with other riders for as much of my trip as I can so like you an flexible in respect of when and where.
I'm planning on being back in the UK for the 1st October.

Hope we can make a plan for a meet up for beer & story swapping....

Regards,

John