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  • Holiday 2019 Gozamite & Finrin Day 7

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    Balaton & Heviz
    Decided to take a little bit easier day now. We rode only 170 kilometers: First to the Lake Balaton and then to Lake Heviz.
    We came to the lake Balaton straight to the Tihany peninsula (actually I don’t know what the peninsula is called but this Tihany village is there anyway!)

    Lake Balaton

    From the south-end of Tihany you can take the ferry to the other side of the lake. It seemed that the ferry was full all the time! (but I didn’t check the price…)
    I tried to find the highest possible place (or road) from Badacsony Vulcano to see the the views to the lake.

    Badascony
    Where’s the mountain?

    There is quite many nice photos that people have been taking from that mountain… But this one is simply the BEST!
    In the forest we saw some instructions how to move and behave there in the mountain… Hungarian should be a relative language to Finnish but I didn’t understand anything!!

    Hungarian language

    Because it was quite hot day -maybe something like +32 celsius, we started to think what would be a nice place to cool down a little bit?
    We found this nice lake to take a swim:

    Lake Heviz
    Lake Heviz
    Splashes in Lake Heviz

    Lake Heviz is the biggest thermal lake in the world. The water temperature is +32 celsius! We had a hotel room just beside this Lake/ Spa… In out holiday this was maybe one of the “biggest tourist attractions” with such a many people everywhere.
    The route for this day was like this:

  • Holiday 2019 Gozamite & Finrin Day 2-3

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    I’ve done few times the border from Estonia to Latvia in Valka/ Valga. Now I rode to Möniste and south from there so we were in Latvia. I had chosen “No gravelroads” in my GPS but soon it was gravelroad anyway. We had to do about 20 kilometers detour trying to avoid those terrible gravelroads in Latvia but it wasn’t successful. Finally we checked the old narrowrail in Gulbene. That was a trip back to Soviet-time!

    Banitis railway

    From the same Gulbene city we found also abandoned palace!

    Old palace in Gulbene

    After riding through many small villages and incredibly boring roads we arrived in Daugavpils city -the second biggest town in Latvia.
    There is Fortress area built by Russians, but the buildings in this area are in very bad condition! At least the main gate is still OK!

    Daugavpils Fortress

    Route for day 2 was like this:

    Day 3: From the number 1 hotel in Daugavpils it was nice to continue to Lithuania!
    Right after crossing the border there a small Zarasai town and there we found this:

    The “Loop” viewing platform 17m above Lake Zarasas

    The original idea was to ride to Belarus but we didn’t make the travel plan that has to be made 48 hours beforehand!
    We visited this nice viewing tower:

    The wind was very strong at this point but we didn’t notice yet the rising thunderclouds from the southwest. Then I started to avoid the possible rain by choosing the route more east. Finally it was only a small forestroad…

    At the Belarus border…
    Riding south from Kulbokiškė village

    So we almost made it to Belarus!!
    But of course we had to turn back to the big road and route to Vilnius. After the capitol of Lithuania we finally had to change the rainsuits otherwise we’d get wet. But the rain didn’t last long. We ended up to Poland in a small Stary Folwark village near Suwaki. This was the cheapest stay in our trip. Room for 2 with breakfast was about 32€! Here’s the route for day 3:

  • Holiday 2019 Gozamite & Finrin Day 1

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    Our holiday trip started on saturday 29th of june. We hade booked a ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn at 07.30 in the morning. We also booked the breakfast in the boat so we only needed to check that we had everything and then start the tour.
    Boat arrived to Tallinn 09.30 so we had all day to ride! And there was quite many places to see in our route.
    First place where I stopped to take a picture wasn’t planned.

    Small Kulli trainstation on the eastside of Tallinn

    The ride goes on until the windmill in Seidla village. This windmill is still operational! Then some other places too…

    Seidla windmill
    Paide castle and 30m tall tower
    Pöltsamaa castle
    Very beautiful castle park in Viljandi
    Somewhere in Fin… Estonia!

    And after we put our stuff to the hotel in Törva village, we still checked the castle ruins and the cave in Helme.

    Helme cave

    Our first day route was like this.

  • Corsetour Day 2

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    There was one more rider waiting for us in the Schwerin accomodation and then we were 5 riders to conquer the Europe! The last bike to the group is black Triumph Street Triple.
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    We checked the Schwerin castle already early in the morning!
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    This is the castle itself.
    The day was about riding many kilometers and quite a lot about taking it in Autobahn. In the middle of the day there was some rain too -it surprised us and we got a little bit wet! The route was 650km’s to the southside of the Danube river in Regensburg. It was a nice sunset from the hotel window!
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    The route was like this:

  • Corsetour Day 1

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    It was monday the 26th of June when me and 3 friens of mine took the boat from Helsinki to Travemunde (Germany).
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    We had 4 red bikes (Ducati Monster 695, Ducati Streetfighter 1100, Yamaha MT-09 Tracer and BMW S1000XR) to ride with next three weeks.

    The boat trip takes over 1 day and there’s nothing to do (except to eat!) And maybe go outside and take some pictures:
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    This was 4am in the morning when the sun was getting up from the northeast. One of the most beautiful sunrises I’ve ever seen! Tuesday 27th of June the boat was almost 1,5 hours late in the harbour of Travemunde and we had 70km’s to ride to our first destination. It was a beautiful city of Schwerin where we had a place to stay for the night. The route was like this: