Morrocco 2010

 

Challenge Copenhagen 2010, Triatlon race

Great fun rideing through Copenhagen at what ever speed nessesary, at the Challenge race 2010 in Copenhagen. We where about 30 motorcykels with either judges or journalist as passengers. Here i´m posing with two strom buddies Martin and Kenneth after the race


My passenger during the race - Racedirector Felix from the Challenge famely in Germany and the mens vinner of Challenge Copenhagen 2010 Tim Berkel. He finished in 8 hours and 7 min.

Back home after 13.080 km through Europe and Morocco

It is 3 weeks since i came home. And i´m still trying to get used to it...
It was a wunderfull trip. Went through Germany, Swheiz, Italy, France, Spain and Morocco.
Morocco was great, and to big for only 6 days. Used a normal map and a free GPS map for navigating. The free Morocco GPS map for Garmin can be downloaded here http://www.motor-europe.com/morocco.php?lang=en It works on Garmin products. It´s not door to door, most of the time i had to punch in koordinats and set the GPS to find the direct line. Most of the roads, even half way down in Morocco, was on the GPS map, so it was farly easy to see witch roads i should take to get to my end destination.
It´s not the last time i go to Morocco, but right now i have to find a job so i can save up some money for the next trip :-)

Here is some pictures from the trip from Barcelona to Copenhagen. You can see pictures from the hole trip on my facebook profile. You should bee able to see them even if you are not a "freind"

Day 27, 10.000km, uploading from Barcelona and heading back north.

Facebook pictures

I´m to lazy to update this site on a regular bacis. so i´ve given "everybody" access to my pictures on Facebook. That should work so you don´t have to be on FB or be a "freind" to be able to se the pistures from this trip. Hope it works. Let me know if it dosen`t.
Clik on one of the links to see pictures from my road trip 2010:
Facebook Profile

Anyway... made it to Merzouga in Marocco, where i drowe about 2300km in 6 days.






Relaxed a few days in Tarifa on the beach and drowe up through Portugal to Santiago de Compostella. Then crossed over to Barcelona, where i am now. That is a bit north of Barcelona on a campsite by the ocean.
Will meet with my freind from Denmark tomorrow somwhere between here and the Frensch border

Jesus, i´ve been lazy

Have drove almost 5000km and i´ts 15 days since i´ve left Copenhagen… and I haven’t updated this blog once! Shame on me 
Have done some facebook updates, read some mail but that´s it, when it comes to being online.
Well, i´ll try to tell what happen so far.
The first day I drowe 1133km to a campsite in France, close to Basel.

Did a little shopping In a Louis.de shop in Weil am Rein. My favorite moto shop. It´s cheap and they have everything. Bought some summergloves that i´ve used every day since, a toilet bag and a big duffle bag for my tent and sleeping madras. It packs very easy.
Just after I left the Louis.de shop at day 2, a girl on a Suzuki DR650 approach me while I was making my way through the confusing roads and traffic through Basel. We talked at every traficlight and then I asked if we shouldn’t stop for a drink somewhere… and so we did. Her name was Katja, she was a local girl from Basel and had traveled a lot on her bike, together with her boyfriend. In the mid 90 she did aq tour for 2,5 years. Throughout Scandinavia and tok a boat from I think, Hamburg to south America. What a dream trip. Any way I enjoyed her company a lot and she promised to mail me so we could stay in touch… I haven´t heard from her jet 
On day 2 I made through Montreux to Chamonix, where I camped. Good mountain roads with a lot of hairpin turns. The next day ,I went through Val d´ísere to pass over col i´lseran. But when I got to the place where the pass starts, I saw the sign that it was closed. Some bikers came down, after I waited a wail, and they said that there was no chance to pass it today. So I had to find another route. It was a detour of at least a few hundred km, but what the hell. I enjoyed every one of them. Went over col du Madelaine instead, which is very beautiful and again hairpin by hairpin.
Can´t remember the name of the campsite, but it was still in the French alps, so I woke up again to a very nice view. On day 3 I headed towards Damenhur, north of Torino. I arrived there around 4 o´clock, and hoped to get a tour in their temples. But there was a tour that had started 2 hours earlier and the next, with a English speaking guide, would be after 2 days. Okay I thought that I could do that tour after visiting Michelle and Mirta in Trento. Then I asked for the price. 66euro… ,for a four hour tour.
It was Sunday, and I drove through Milan. It was around 8 o’clock in the evening and still the traffic was heavy. But I didn’t wanted to do this, the next morning. At around 10 o´clock I had made well clear of Milan, and the next camping would be at Lago de Garda…, so I convinced myself that now was the time to blow my budget and get a hotel. Stopped at the first highway sign saying Albergo and got a price of 50 euro for the night. I took it.
Finally, on day 4 I made it to Michelle and Mirta in Trento. Took the west side up Lago de Garda, which has all the tunnels. A lot of nice big turns and not too much traffic. The weather was still very nice, not too hot, but blue sky and sun.
Michelle and Mirta had made the loft room ready for me. Sleeping right under the mobile antenna, which absolutely secured very good mobile reception. After parking and carrying the luggage up to 4th, and having a spritz at the local café, we talked a wail and I did some online mail checking. In the evening we drove to Michelles home town about 15 min. outside Trento, where we had a marveless pizza like dish, mine was with trout.



Again i´m too lazy. Will post some more updates later.
Have been 2 days in Tarifa and will take the boat to Morocco later to day. If you want to see some pictures check out my Facebook. Don´t know when i´ll put pictures here on this blog
Keith Williamsson, Tarifa – Spain.

Back on the road

Flat is rented out, the Strom is packed, 5 weeks and 10k+ km ahead, I’m ready, just need one night sleep and then I go.

 

Weekend in Berlin with Nadja, my niece

The more i go there, the more i love that city