After six months on the bike and in excess of 31,000Km’s we have been fortunate enough to ride some of Europe’s great roads.  Catching up with old friends and meeting new ones along the way,  enjoying the scenery and at times feeling like we were riding on the top of the world. The bike has now been “parked” for the winter here in Warsaw Poland and we’ll be back on the road come April 2016 to continue the adventure. Looking forward to that!!!!

As always there was so much to see and to many photo’s taken, these roads are made for motorcycling !  The photos are set out randomly in no particular order covering the seasons and countries from early spring, summer, a stunning European autumn and early winter in Poland.

Pictures of roads and a few signs of the 50+ mountain passes we’ve crossed won’t be everyone’s cup of tea but what’s around and beyond them is often beautiful and spectacular.  Here’s the list of countries travelled so far and each one of them has unique roads and scenery to offer :  Crete, Greece, Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, France, Andorra, Spain, England, Wales, Isle of Man, Ireland, Belgium, Neverlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Czech Republic and Poland.

Go get a Harley and do it ! (Only joking…)

Another of Italy’s high passes, who needs a better excuse !

Abbey Road, one of England’s best !

Jo reminding me what I’m meant to be photographing

The traps of an unexpected snow fall

Something different around every corner…

Another pass with ski lift in background in Northern Italy

Pyrenees mountains just over French side of the Spanish border

Another high Swiss Alps pass overlooking one of many glaciers

One of many narrow tunnels

Isle of Man has plenty of great touring roads, just don’t run into the Rock fences

Big mountains, big valley’s

Someone else enjoying the ride on Corsica’s stunning west coast

Just a mass of perfect motorcycling corners, Crete South coast

Thoughtful location to build a bike size pullover point !!

High road in Sardinian Mountains

Road near Wolfs Lair in North Poland with remains of destroyed WW2 bunker

Road heading to Grindelwald Switzerland

Some Corsician roads have very little to stop you tumbling off the edge

Italy’s mountains and blue skies. = A great day for riding

Looking down the many tyre wearing turns of Splugen Pass In Swiss Alps

All roads traveling through the Cotswold Are worth the effort

Corsica’s West Coast, roads winding through unique rock structures

Crete’s mountains roads are generally in good condition

Small dirt switch back road in Donegal Ireland

Another high pass on a beautiful day in the Dolomite Mountains

Small roads not far from glaciers in Swiss Alps

There’s nearly always a Rifugio at the top of high mountain passes

The Bormio side of Stelvio Pass with over 40 tyre wearing, brake destroying hairpins to enjoy..

Simplon Pass near Italian boarder

Roads winding down to small seaside villages on Corsica’s coast

Grimsel Pass – One of the great passes in the Swiss alps Note- KooWeeRup MCC sticker strategically placed 🙂

Great small Road heading towards Crete’s Southern mountains

Quite often the views coming out of tunnels are breathtaking

Odd place for a light house ?

Kotisifou Canyon – Crete

Heading up Furka Pass but the zig zagging road ahead climbs to Grimsel Pass

A Dolomite Mountain traffic gnome keeping an eye on things…

This mount road is on Italy’s coast line near Marina di Camerota

One of many gorges in French Pyrenees mountains

Another high Italian Pass

Small roads and an abundance of wild flowers along Irelands west coast

Landslides add to an interesting ride, Crete style

Few interesting side tracks down there..

Looking down Furka Pass with Grimsel in back the ground

What a view, taken from Edelweiss Spitze in Austrian mountains

A foggy Susten Pass but still plenty of bike riding the Swiss Alps

Grossglockner road at Hochtor Pass

Not all roads are well sign posted, Irish south coast beach flats (only when tides out!)

So many roads, so little time !!!! – Swiss Alps

Roads along Spain’s Southern Coast can be some of the best

A little cold here, riding through the Obertauern Ski Field Austria

Just great riding along Ireland’s West Coast Dingle area

Many fine valley roads through out the Italian Alps

Vstrom looking at it’s next challenge, mountains inland from Greece’s Patra

Just over the Swiss boarder and into Italy

Part of Southern end of the Grosslockner road Austria

Pyrenees mountain road on French side just after border crossing from Spain

Looking up towards one of many mountain side tunnels, they are great to ride through

Andorra Pyrenees Mountains

Stelvio Pass Bormio – KooWeeRup MCC sticker proudly displayed (Top RH corner)

Looking down Furka Pass with Grimsel in back the ground

Some great roads winding their way through the Austrian Alps

Austrian mountains dead ahead

Spanish side of Pyrenees mounts are a great ride

The famous Passo dello Stelvio, one of Europes highest at 2758 mtr’s

Late spring snow on Sardinian mountains

Bikers paradise in the Swiss Alps

Crete was full of great roads and this was one of them..

Wide angle view of the way up and the way out..

Overlooking some of highest mountains in Austria Alps

Heading north on highway towards Poland’s Masurian Lakes District

Gap of Dunloe

Not many road signs out here

The clear waters around the finger of Corsica

Crete South Coast dirt roads are worth the trip

Bavarian country roads are just the best..

High mountain lakes in the Swiss Alps

Bikes eye view !

Sicily’s Mt Etna is a great ride keeping one eye on road and the other on the smoking volcano….

Isle of Man roads make a great race track

Not a lot of Sardinia’s road budget used here…

The road leading to Italy’s Stelvio Pass, how good does that look..

Part of the Dolomite Mountains Italy

Some famous pubs on this piece of road – Creg Na Baa

Sweeping views on road from Peel to Port StMary on the Isle of Man

That’s Jo keeping the bike warm down there

Sicily’s Mt Etna lava trails, unbelievable thrill to ride around this mountain

Nothing better than coastal road riding, especially in Italy

Road heading to the Frans Josefs Hohe and Pasterze Glacier

Plenty of riding like this in England

the view from Edelweiss Spitze

Italy’s Stelvio Pass has over 40 hairpin turns on each side, that why bikers like it 🙂

France’s Millau Viaduct, a marvel of engineering and an experience just to ride over it

Irish mountain roads stand alone for scenery

Dolomities Mountains Italy

The perfect Welch road, small, no traffic and goes for miles

The unique Welsh countryside, no traffic, roughish roads, just right..

High altitude lakes are a feature of the alps..

Another section of good road..

Some roads are a work of art and the back grounds not bad either

Riding roads in Italian Alps in amount glacial mountains

Swiss Alp roads are hard on tyres and brakes and worth ever bit !

Sign post at Hel on Polands Baltic Coast

Barely had enough time to look a the view riding this road…

What scenery and paved road to finish it off..

Amalfi coast Italy – A little more traffic but still worth the ride

Sweeping bends – Dolomite Mountains

One of Austria’s best, the Grosslockner road is full of scenery like this

This road winds it way through the Dolomites which are UNESCO listed

Abandoned villages along the road

Tram to top of the Isle of Man mountain, you find it crossing on race days !

Riding through Irelands lush green countryside is a privilege

Typical Irish coastal road

Crete, blue sky’s and fun roads

Ruggered Sardinian mountains

More Italian glaciers and great little dirt roads made for the adventurous..

Irelands lush green countryside

Sweeping bends and Mediterranean sea backdrop, Crete at its best !

Road looks like it’s been painted in to this picture…

Not all roads have a happy ending but there to be explored…

Irelands Gap of Dunloe

All roads lead to the small Swiss village of Gletsch right down there..

Irelands Wild Atlantic Way, some the worlds most spectacular coastline roads

This small cobbled stone road was found in Polands Masurian Lakes forests, just perfect..

Sign post in the middle of a Polish Forest

Small Polish forest roads in autumn, how goods that

Looking towards the mountain range separating Swiss and Italian boarder

Grimsel Pass

Nice newly surfaced road with handy sun shade ? They think of everything in Corsica

Dolomite Mountains

Single lane road over the Dingle Peninsula mountains

Irish mist, Irish mountains and great Irish roads….

Riding through beautiful Autumn forest in Polands Masurian Lakes district

Biker enjoying the moment

One of Sardinia’s more interesting roads !!

This lovely bit of road cut through the Cambrian Mountain Range Wales

This road was spectacular on Sadinia’s mid east coast

Some beautiful small roads and villages on the Ise of Man

West Coast Wild Atlantic Way road

One of Switzerland’s great passes

Dolomite Mountains, not many straight roads here

Riding the Dolomite Mountains, traffic never got much worse than this

The lone rider, Swiss Alps