CE QUE CA VEUT DIRE, ET CE QUE ON VA FAIRE

PHOCK IT AGAIN, THIS TIME SLOWAKY

I didn’t know there was a vignet to drive through Slowaky? i found it out the next day, and I already had to pay a parking fee through the internet as well? So those dates will not be similar, Oh my GOD hotsprings, why do I even like to travel these bohemian idiot countries! I visited them when they we’re still in there nappy’s, and now this? On top of that,,,, have a look at the site, they tell you ther’s a vignet, but they don’t tell you there’s an automatic check on the toll roads? Phock do they have those too? Why did I get here, this is not my beautiful life, letting the miles go bye. BAD ROADS, UNCOMFORTABLE PARKINGS, WITH SILLY SIGNS, SLOWAKIE YOU’VE LOST IT.

Well there are more silly countries that have decided we need to pay an entry fee, and on top, we need to pay the roads already paid by our taxes, do you love it!

But seriously guys, paid 8 euros parking overnight, 11€ for a vignet and another 12 for toll routes I don’t even want to take, this being the lazy updates on google maps and me being misdirected as my gps is secured to avoid toll roads? Phock Slowakie, and get the hell out

Dit is heel jammer, ik ga niet iedere keer als ik een grens overga, al is t voor 20km, kijken of daar een vignet nodig is, daar naast zijn de weg updates ivm snelheden en tol ook niet updated dus we rijden constant in een fuik! Is dat wat ze de touristen willen aandoen? I am out of here. Zoek de snelste weg HOME

ZAKOPANE, TATRY, SLOWAKYE

Zapokane is absoluut kampeerverbod vanwege de enorme hoeveelheid toeristen. Ik heb een parkeerplaats gevonden op het terrein van een Waterpark?? Ja een gigantisch gekkenhuis inclusief disco eetgelegenheid you name it. Maar ook camperaars willen weleens zwemmen, dus parkeren mag ook, zelfs snachts, en dat voor een habbekrats. Plan was vandaag 8 uur naar een camping te gaan ter plaatse waar je dicht bij de skilift zou zijn voor het Downhill verhaal. Er stond al zoveel file dat ik doorgereden ben naar Slowakye, de grensovergang van Polen naar Slowakye bleek een klein bruggetje, max 3T5 en 3M hoog, dat past net. En ook daar weer ontzettend veel wandelaars. Krulspelden haarpinnen en boven gekomen meteen een grote parkeerplaats met fietsmogelijkheid : Zdiar. We slapen hier en plannen de volgende stap: Wenen.

Officiële camper spot bij Lodz, Theo maakt een rondje.

Theo wir fahren nach Lodz. In ieder geval er dichtbij vind ik een aantal officiële camper parkeerplaatsen, gratis zelfs, helaas kunnen de voorzieningen alleen met zloty, cash, betaald worden, maar het is mooi aangelegd. Rond de ruïne van een kasteel uit 1733. Jammer dat de parkeerplaatsen zo dicht aan het voetpad liggen waar op deze zondag veel bezoekers komen, het voelt alsof we een deel van de voorstelling zijn. 

PLOCK the day, Who gives a PLOCK.

It has been an most remarkable day, having left the bike park and it’s recent an modern investments, I found myself quickly on a most pre-war route! Not talking about cemeteries but realy awful maintained local roads. Including strange road signs, ie, telling you to slow down, but not when you are allowed to speed up again? On top of that they must have missed out some Google updates because all my GPS’s indicate different speeds limits. Luckily I have only spotted ONE speed RADAR up to now. Due to unreliable information on parking spots I ended up further, and much later, in the town called PLOCK. Well Plock it, where you would imagine something reasonable this town is immense, and has a commercial area 10 times the size of zuidplein, perpignan, perigueux. The Leroy Merlin is bigger than wherever, and the same goes for Auchan? Aren’t those French companies? And there’s no difference in prices with France, checked it, didn’t buy anything except Vodka, and not cheap.

Cheapness, Plock me I am clean. Crazy MF.. Who the Plock do you think you are, and where? It is however a eye opener and where I would have expected raw nature there is deserted little villages with loads of restrictions. Police only to block my way around town for some reason unknown. Bah, not my favourite area.

If all cool tonight, tomorrow will bike woods behind me, cross thumbs 

WOOD WORK BIKE PARK

 NO COMMENT ON CHANCE FIND SITE, AMAZING SOMEHOW. 

                   Had gehoopt deze toren met de fiets te doen, helaas..’

Ski resort and summer bike park with amazing tower castle build mostly of huge timber. A restaurant and kiddy water slides park completes this recreation area. Empty when I arrived, full now with customers. Nobody works anymore?

Science Reality

 1 euro = 4,30 zloty

 10 zloty = 2,32 euros 

 1 euro = 24,20 kroon Tjechië

 10 kroon Tjechië = 0,41 euros 

Hello hello hello, Welcome to the show, maybe we’ll do a wet Tshirt contest, we are collecting female underwear, anything, even with a pin! What does this one say: you’re Polish? Love your nails… 

We have changed sides, countries, continents, languages, temperatures, monedas and lots more. A ferry to Poland being near the same price as the infamous Sontsbridge thus avoiding Denmark, taking us to new destinations, made the decision easy. But the adaptation: Where the Swedish drove slow the polish like to be formula 1 drivers, the language stays a blur, incomprehensible, shame, they do speak English! Today in comparison to yesterday is an energetic and sweaty experience; the ferry took close to 12 hours of relaxing which became a bit boring, so come well prepared, you are not allowed in the camper and the gaz needs to be turned off, I lost some seafood and icecream no réal loss, But hey , we learn,,,So today was a working day: got the gaz filled, diesel as well, found a source for water, and did a washing. Yeah wow, clean everything! Near impossible in Sweden and Norway.. And an A plus is Aldi besides Lidl, got me some Polish beers 🍺  no more 3.5 we go for 6.0.. WELCOME TO THR CONTINENT  show me the way..   No Idea where this takes us, thunderstorm close, but temperature very heavy, I would enjoy a good splatter’’ Shame to see that my internet provider keeps upping the price because he feels I am spending too much time abroad, have to find an option for that in the future. Ah small remark, our Yorkshire friends informed me bout an international Credit Card: Monzo? Well maybe yes, but not yet for the mainland.

Djellabahs, Burka’s & Balaclavas at Lidl!

Sweden has it all, but probably more mosquitoes. What they have as well is many, many camping cars, the Swedish I mean. Of course there are a lot of Germans as well, less Finnlandais, Dutch but mostly in normal cars(hotel, airbnb or 2ndhomes?) English we see very view, and who did I end up with: Paul’s neighbours from Yorkshire, Yorki’s or are those just those obnoxious little dogs?

So we’ve been having nice weather ever since we crossed the border from Norway, drove along the coast, B-roads nice and slow, from along and through Gotenburg nearly to Malmo is horse country with beaches like the middle west coast of France, with shallow tides, and old windmills. More inland nice parking on these local bathing lakes is where I met the Yorkshire couple, forgot their name, forgot to take a picture, that’s me. So we’re on our way to Karlskrona, details later, stopped to do some shopping again next to a huge Ikea, well the whole shopping centre was immense so no wonder. Drove on to Olofström, where it was getting hot, wrong parking but loads of recreational activities, canoeing hiking and BIKING yepp. Unloaded and got to it, rounded the lake, contemplating to stay another day. Nice for U guys too to walk.

Coastline Gotenburg

Spot where I met the Yorki’s

FROM 12° TO 24° AND FROM NORWAY TO SWEDEN…

KRISTIANSUND, watch out there’s also KRISTIANSAND. In the neighbourhood of Trondheim on the coast they wanted to link lots of island by train, didn’t work out, so now it’s simply a road,ATLANTERHAVSVEGEN,and some call it the most scenic beautiful coastal road. Well, been there, drive it, even slept on it,,, then I drove on to the TROLLSTIGGEN, which is a hairpin mountainroad of spectacular narrowness. Near impossible with the amount of tourist busses. i saw one camping car having discussions with one of these busses😎. Well I got to the top had a wash in one of the many waterfalls, and decided to spend the night to wake up in a cloud with zero visibility. Luckily it was 06.00 so alone on the road together with some sheep..  Plan was to drive on to GEIRANGER FJORD. Again the most beautiful fjord in Norway. Well they obviously made it impossible to park or spend the night in a camper. So either Hotel or turn around.. So I went the TROLLSTIGGEN down as well, so that counts double, NO? Yes these fjords are beautiful and impossible to get around, and underneath costs money, so unfortunately I have hit the E6 again with all it’s tolls and ended near 500km further east in Sweden with much better weather and straighter roads.

THE BIGGEST WATERFALL OF SWEDEN? REALLY?

JAMSTLAND, wilde ik absoluut bezoeken, vanwege zijn ruige natuur, de vele mbt trails en de grootste waterval van Zweden?. Ik heb vanuit Noorwegen een behoorlijke omweg genomen om de E6 te mijden. Dus van Norway to Swedeen en heb daar een tunnel getroffen met één enkele baan. Tegemoetkomend verkeer moest in inhammen opzij. Daarna was de weg langs het immense meer was identiek eenbaans! TRUDGING ALONG THE TUNDRA MILE AFTER MILE!….Via Ostersund naar Åre alwaar dit skieoort te vinden is. Een parkeerplaats direct voor een reservaat met wandelpaden, heerlijk rustig. Meteen op zoek naar mogelijkheden, en jawel, een paar verbodsborden negerend kwam ik plots voor TRAILS, de cobra, schitterend, en ook weer eenvoudig de weg terug gevonden naar Tiny, wel een beetje klimmen. De volgende dag meteen weer op de fiets en ditmaal een Trail hoger genomen, wederom WOW, de stoelliften waren nog niet eens in werking gezet.. Even opgefrist en op naar de GROOTSTE WATERVAL VAN ZWEDEN,, okay, imposant maar dit kan niet de grootste zijn, er word ook gesproken over de SEVEN SISTERS! Nou ja hier wat foto’s: