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Corsetour Day 9

Posted by gozamite on 5.8.2017
Posted in: actioncamera, Ducati, helmetcamera, Moottoripyöräily, motocaching, motorcycling, nature, Serpentine, Travel. Tagged: , , , . Leave a comment

We would leave this beautiful island… oh yes. It would be wise to stay for example 1 week but we want to spend more time those roads in Europe! So early in the morning it’s time to choose same route back to Bastia -harbour. And then take the boat-trip to the mainland (Savona this time). One last picture from Corsica:
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This is from this here. We’re riding so early we actually had time to have some kind of breakfast in the cafe near the harbour before the check-in to the boat.
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But the trip takes more than 6 hours this time… so definately if you don’t want to put all day to your boat trip it’s better to choose Livorno – Bastia route.
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We will be in Italy mainland about 6 a’clock in the afternoon… And the food is not cheap i the boat!
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Then from Savona we had a nice ride through countryside… Lots of nice twisty small roads with nice scenery every now and then.
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The hotel was in Ovada… Pretty nice hotel with garage but without restaurant.

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Corsetour Day 8

Posted by gozamite on 4.8.2017
Posted in: actioncamera, BMW, BMW motorrad, Ducati, helmetcamera, Moottoripyöräily, motorcycling, Mountain Road, S1000XR, Travel. Tagged: , , , . Leave a comment

This day is impossible to show in the map! Googlemap doesn’t simply show any routes that follows D81b (From Galeria to Calvi) but this is the route we took and we really enjoyed it!!

First we stopped for a swim in the lonely beach! There were other people too but really not too many! Then we kind of separated… I found a castle that was very interesting!
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There was a group of tourists listening on a guy who was talking and talking… But finally I got some information that this was a castle of Pierre Bonaparte who was a “ruler” of a Corsica for awhile.

Little bit north from this castle there was also a Chapel in a very beautiful area. There was also a beautiful road to this chapel with a huge helmet!
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Besides these the road D81b offered very beautiful views to the sea in many places!!
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In Calvi we chose pizzeria to eat something -it was one of the best pizzas is this tour. In the evening we choose a restaurant near our hotel -it was a beautiful place but for me the salad was very bad choice! (Restaurant Grill Ponte Vecchiu is recommended by my friends but not by me!)
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Corsetour Day 7

Posted by gozamite on 2.8.2017
Posted in: actioncamera, adventure, BMW motorrad, Ducati, helmetcamera, Make life a ride!, Moottoripyöräily, motorcycling, Mountain Road, summertime, Video. Tagged: , . 1 Comment

We’re in the paradise island. What should we do? Go to the beach? Go to have some summer activities? Jet Ski maybe? No… Lets go ride a motorcycle!

I made a route almost 300km’s long and we started riding that. First south from Galeria: These parts are so nice ride with magnificant views to the sea almost all the time. And finally the Col de Palmarella with sensational views to the both sides of the island! Southside from Golfe de Porto we found the the rock-formations of Les Calanques de Piana. But as excepted this area is quite full of people!
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We only stopped for awhile to take some pictures and we continued more south towards Col de Vergio. This is the highest mountain pass in Corsica island (With altitude of 1477m).
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It was very funny to ride these areas of Corsica! The road was sweeping nicely through Pinetree-forest and the forest was full of pigs! For some reason you don’t see the pigs in my video because they stay at the shadows but here is one pic…
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The eastside of Vergio is actually a very beautiful (and dangerous) Canyonroad with very narrow places and tight/ steep corners!

In Ponte Leccia we tried to find a place to eat…. But not a very good success! We found only Panini and waitress dropped one of them to my lapp and then she pushed her fingers to Maria’s  (or Salla’s) Cola! Not a very good day for her I guess? Here’s the route for day 7: