Day 1- Amsterdam

The second leg of the flight from Honk Kong to Amsterdam was a breeze. 20mg of Valium and they had to wake me up to land. Getting through customs and immigration was a breeze. First order of the day was Espresso.

Second order of business was getting into Amsterdam. Couldn't decide on train or Tesler

Checkout the speed

We had all day to kill so we headed for Town. I wasnt ready for how many bicycles there were. And the Canals were superb.

Seems like a great Sunday thing to do.

1/2 way there

Sitting in Hong Kong for 2-1/2 hour layover. We is battling. We tried to stay awake for first leg. Will be snoozing for the second. 15-20mg if Valium should do it. 

European vacation

Hard to say goodbye to our baby. 7 weeks seemed like a good idea at the time. 

Day 18- 770kms in 8 hours. Easy

We rode off the ferry at 7am and rode all day. Stopped for fuel twice. Rode into the shed at 5pm. Big day. 

Next week we change the suspension and fix up a few bits. We have 4 weeks before the bike goes in the container for holland. We will do another test trip before we go. 

Day 17- what you do when you homesick

Go Home 

Yeah we found a slot on the ferry so today we headed for Devonport. It was terrible weather. The worst wind I have ever ridden in. Made the ferry on time. Here we are waiting to board out of the rain. Can't wait to get home. 

Now that's a top box

Lisa and Mikey celebrate 25 years

It's our 25th wedding anniversary and we celebrated in style in Hobart. Mt Wellington congratulated us with a snowy wake up. 

Gertrude outside our hotel 

 A nice ride on the Derwent river. 

I love you Lisa. More and more everyday 

Partners in crime

Look what's for sale at MONA

I'm not a prude. MONA is tasteless shit 

Don't go to MONA

Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, Don't go to Mona, 

That's all I've got to say about that 

Cold & Wet

Lisa found a novel if not predictable way to keep warm on the ferry back from Bruny Island. Very cold day on the bike.

Day 14- heading for Hobart

It rained and blew all night. It blew so hard I thought the bike would be on its side in the morning. We got up and made coffee and pancakes on the trangia before putting every bit of clothing we had on and headed off in the rain. It was muddy slippery and cold and wet. Hobart couldn't come soon enough. We are here for two nights to celebrate our 25 wedding anniversary. 

Day 13- Off to Bruny Island

With the weather on the improve we headed off to Bruny Island. A lady at the market told us about a lovely little peninsula where she lived, so on the way we had a look. It was a treasure. Even dirt road. She also told us about the best fish and chips in tasmania which we also checked out. 

Once off the ferry to Bruny we headed for our camp at adventure bay. When we got there it was waterlogged and shitty. We headed across the island on a 4 Es only trail that nearly but us in the arse. The other side of the island was just as bad and with 100km winds and rain predicted we found a cabin. As it turned out it was a good move. 

Seals lounging in the channel. 

Day 12- Hobart dodging the weather

We With terrible weather upon us it was a good move to lay low in Hobart for the day. We got some great shopping done and spent some time refining our gear for the big trip in August. We posted 6kg of stuff home. Gertrude will thank us I'm sure 

The ATP Steam train at Queenstown

Lisa's motorcycle berkah

I'm not sure why people look scared when we pull up somewhere

Day 11- New Norfolk to Hobart

We were going to head for the southern cape today but the weather is going to close in tomorrow so we decided to head for Hobart to wait it out. It's Saturday so the salimanca markets were on. We had a great day skulking around. 

Lisa and Gertrude in Hobart

Mikey bought a new hat. 

Day 10- LSC to New Norfolk

Lake St Clair was beautiful. We had a lovely night in a little cabin. One again it stopped raining just before we left. We keep getting lucky. 

We visited "the wall". A must if your in Tasi. Then we rode through some beautiful country visiting some nice hydroelectric action along the way. 

We got to New Norfolk in the middle of the arvo. We did a shop before heading up into the mountains to a cabin we found. It started raining and the ride up was wet and muddy. Only just climbed the last hill it was so steep. We had s great night in the bush with the paddy Mellon wallabies. 

Dirty Gerti

Day 9 - Queenstown to Lake St Clair

After it rained hard all night we were pretty happy to spend the day on the famous APT train out of Queenstown. We had s fantastic experience. The trams was a mechanical engineering masterpiece. 

The train uses a central drive cog to climb and decend very steep grades

By the time we got back to Queenstown the rain had stopped and we headed for lake Saint Clair. On a very very windy road. 

Lake St Clair 

Mike the Pirate

We went to a play at Strahan. I got to be the pirate. An actor I am not.

Day 8 - Strahan to Queenstown

We made the short but fun jump to Queenstown today. The roads here are off the hook. We spent the day wandering around town including the museum and the Steam train shed. Tomorrow we are going on the scenic railway ride. Yippee 

The Queenstown moonscape 

The world famous gravel footy field. 

Day 7 - Rest day doing tourist stuff

Today we did a boat cruise that went to Macquarie heads, Sarah's Island then up the Gordon River. It was good

Then we went to a play and I got to be a pirate

Gordon River

Really interesting day visiting Sarah Island and 14 km ride up the Gordon River and saw lots of Huon pines.

Day 6 - the western explorer road

The western explorer road was worth coming to Tasi for. It's only 150 kms long and takes 3-1/2 hours but it's absolutely awesome. Only saw 3 vehicles the whole way. So remote and so beautiful it beggars belief. 

We is now in Strahan 

Crossing on the barge at Corrina

Good camp at Marrawah

I'm 

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