The Planning Stage
This year Mick and I are joined by Mick's son Sean on his 1200 GS and his mate Jason on his Yamaha MT09 Tracer for a nostalgia tour of the Alps. Mick wants to introduce Sean to some of the wonderful rides and favourite places we have discovered in the Alpine regions over the last twenty years. This time we are taking the eas y route to Europe on the P&O ferry from Hull to Zeebrugge in Belgium. Hull is only 50 miles from our homes in Doncaster and I certainly won't miss the long haul down from Yorkshire to the Channel ports. I began the route planning after Christmas in the depths of the British winter. I like to have a set of defined routes for each day of the tour, with a few "spare days" included to allow for bad weather or the interesting diversions that we always find cropping up on long tours. However experience has shown that no plan ever survives contact with the tarmac, so the plan generally evolves as the tour progresses. ++++++++ While many