Distance traveled: 8,399.4 km
Maximum speed: 825 kph
Temperature range: -56 - +17 degrees
Had a good breakfast at the Hotel Clement in Prague to get us on our way and we were down in front of the hotel at 8:30 am to collect our ride to the airport. It is interesting, when Michaela at the motorcycle store ordered me an Uber to get back to the hotel, a Bolt (competitor?) car picked me up. When I ordered a Bolt for a ride to the airport, a taxi picked us up. I think all independent drivers will have accounts with any ride service and even the taxi companies.
Our trip home, with two stops, one in Frankenfurt and one in Calgary were largely uneventful. The
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| Frankfurt must be the 747 capital of the world as there were dozens. |
flight out of Frankfurt was delayed by a half hour but it had no impact on our connection because we had a couple of hours. I enjoyed flying over Iceland and Greenland because it was a reasonably clear day so I had a bit of a look at both countries, albeit briefly and from afar. It at least gave me an opportunity to post some pictures on this final entry to the Euroblog.
Some shots of Iceland.
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| From this perspective, it is difficult to estimate the height of the plateau but it provided an interesting perspective. The lighting was good for it. |
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| A causeway connecting lonely roads on the Icelandic coast. There was not too much green out there but we could see the occasional square. |
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| I really liked this shot because you can see a fishing village, an airport runway and a fish farm. Sadly, I mean "you" euphemistically. On the original, zooming in they are there. |
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| Greenland mountains. |
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| Pretty good sized iceberg off the Greenland coast. There were many. |
We were picked up from the airport by my good friend Daryl, an old high school buddy. He and his wife are visiting from Toronto and are hosting some friends of theirs from New Zealand... in our house. Since they had already been staying there, they all knew their way around so Nan and I didn't have to do anything, which was good because we were pretty much pooched. Arriving home at 8:00 pm local time was 5:00 am Prague time, so we were pretty tired. It had been a long time since we had stayed up that late, and we weren't even partying!
It was a memorable trip for us, and we had fun traveling with friends for a bit and having a combination bicycle-motorcycle trip. The Czech Republic was quite affordable whereas Germany was a whole order of magnitude more expensive. Both have merits and I am pretty sure we won't wait 42 years for the next visit to Europe. I loved riding the European little back roads. Nan loved the scenery best. And we both loved having fresh, baked bread virtually every day. Oh, and of course, it was amazing being in amongst all that 1,000 year old history, to walk on the roads, in the buildings and to be able to touch that workmanship from all those centuries ago. I realize that many readers of the blog will have done all of this and likely a lot more recently than us but it was really inspiring.
Thanks for following along with us. Not sure we actually got too much kulture but we had fun in the attempt.