Henrik166
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Now it’s been 3 weeks since we came home after our 3639km Balkan tour.
I’ve been through 2509 pictures and 9½ hours of video and I’ve made my first ‘lame ass video’
My girlfriend and I live in Denmark. We spend the last 4 summer vacations cruising around the country, she rides a Suzuki GSX 600 F and I use to ride a Yamaha FJ from ’88, but this spring I finely got a FJR, so we decided that it was time for a trip outside the country.
We left her bike at home and packed my ‘new’ baby and set of on a 13 days ride
Sunday 24/7 we drove 392km to Hamburg, Germany, there we bordered the auto train, during the evening/night it took us the 1100km to Villach, Austria.
Here our road trip started in 27 *f, we went east through Slovenia and into Croatia to Slavonski Brod, then south into Bosnia Herzegovina to Doboj, our first real stop and the main reason for our trip, I was a NATO soldier in Doboj in 2002 and ever since, I wanted to go back and show my girlfriend the country.
After a few days we continued south to Sarajevo, with a short stop in Travenik.
In Sarajevo we went down Sniper Alley, and visited Camp Butmir.
We stayed one night before going through the beautiful country to Mostar and from there to the Croatian coast:
Here we continued south east to Dubrovnik, where I spend a few RR during my time stationed in Doboj, it’s a beautiful old city but also very expensive.
From here we followed the coast, north east to Vodice, few km north of Split, we rented a room for 3 days.
We decided to take a one day trip to Split, it was raining a little on our way to Split, but nothing heavy, but during the morning it just got worse ending in hail!! I never seen anything like this, in half an hours the streets turned into rivers, we found a shopping center and went inside for a hour, when we came out again, the sun was shinning from a blue sky and it was 30 *f.
After Vodice we went north to Perućko Jezero to see the waterfalls, but when we arrived it was raining and it was 10 *f, so we drove west through Slovenia to Trieste, Italy.
We found a hotel in San Giorgio di Nogaro and stayed there a few days.
While staying in San Giorgio di Nogaro, we made a one day trip to Venice.
Like we didn't get enough water in the streets in Split!!!
Then it was time to go home, we took the direct road, through the mountains to Bolzano, Italy, it was very strange to drive through a area with ski resorts and snow on the hill sides, but on the other hand, we where in 1928 meters above the see.
In Bolzano, we loaded the FJR on the train again, and went to sleep, when we woke up Friday morning, we where in Germany, close to Hamburg, and after 392km we where home again, after a fantastic trip, with out any problems, the bike did a wonderful job and we enjoyed every minute… maybe not the hail!
Now I hope you’ll enjoy the video and feel free to comment.
The pictures are taken with a Canon EOS 500D or a Canon powershot S10
I used a Gopro Hero Action cam to the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMPFCqO3k-M
I’ve been through 2509 pictures and 9½ hours of video and I’ve made my first ‘lame ass video’
My girlfriend and I live in Denmark. We spend the last 4 summer vacations cruising around the country, she rides a Suzuki GSX 600 F and I use to ride a Yamaha FJ from ’88, but this spring I finely got a FJR, so we decided that it was time for a trip outside the country.
We left her bike at home and packed my ‘new’ baby and set of on a 13 days ride
Sunday 24/7 we drove 392km to Hamburg, Germany, there we bordered the auto train, during the evening/night it took us the 1100km to Villach, Austria.
Here our road trip started in 27 *f, we went east through Slovenia and into Croatia to Slavonski Brod, then south into Bosnia Herzegovina to Doboj, our first real stop and the main reason for our trip, I was a NATO soldier in Doboj in 2002 and ever since, I wanted to go back and show my girlfriend the country.
After a few days we continued south to Sarajevo, with a short stop in Travenik.
In Sarajevo we went down Sniper Alley, and visited Camp Butmir.
We stayed one night before going through the beautiful country to Mostar and from there to the Croatian coast:
Here we continued south east to Dubrovnik, where I spend a few RR during my time stationed in Doboj, it’s a beautiful old city but also very expensive.
From here we followed the coast, north east to Vodice, few km north of Split, we rented a room for 3 days.
We decided to take a one day trip to Split, it was raining a little on our way to Split, but nothing heavy, but during the morning it just got worse ending in hail!! I never seen anything like this, in half an hours the streets turned into rivers, we found a shopping center and went inside for a hour, when we came out again, the sun was shinning from a blue sky and it was 30 *f.
After Vodice we went north to Perućko Jezero to see the waterfalls, but when we arrived it was raining and it was 10 *f, so we drove west through Slovenia to Trieste, Italy.
We found a hotel in San Giorgio di Nogaro and stayed there a few days.
While staying in San Giorgio di Nogaro, we made a one day trip to Venice.
Like we didn't get enough water in the streets in Split!!!
Then it was time to go home, we took the direct road, through the mountains to Bolzano, Italy, it was very strange to drive through a area with ski resorts and snow on the hill sides, but on the other hand, we where in 1928 meters above the see.
In Bolzano, we loaded the FJR on the train again, and went to sleep, when we woke up Friday morning, we where in Germany, close to Hamburg, and after 392km we where home again, after a fantastic trip, with out any problems, the bike did a wonderful job and we enjoyed every minute… maybe not the hail!
Now I hope you’ll enjoy the video and feel free to comment.
The pictures are taken with a Canon EOS 500D or a Canon powershot S10
I used a Gopro Hero Action cam to the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMPFCqO3k-M
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