look at this city

[nightrider]

Oporto, Portugal.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/travel/01next.html

Stuff like this makes me dream about a motorcycle tour of Europe. Preferably with a lovely lady on the back. 

[linuxman2003]

wooow  thats gorgeous!!! 

[Mk1inCali]

Most of Western Europe makes a lot of the USA's architecture look like cheap shaZam!.

[GeeP]

When do we leave?

[nightrider]

I could go now but if I burnt my cash on a trip to europe I'd never get out of this (also picturesque) town.

they say to travel as much as you can while you can but shaZam!, I have things I gotta do 

[spc]

Most of Western Europe makes a lot of the USA's architecture look like cheap shaZam!.

Yeah, but the Victorian and Colonial Homes here make for great scenery on those back country rides 

[Cal Price]

Portugal is still on my "to do" list but here are a few pix from my wanderings on bike as well as trains and boats and planes by way of a potted European tour..........

First 500 yards down my road


a mile down the road...


Bruges, capital of Flanders


Venice from the ship


Dubrovnic Croatia



Pantheon Roma



Atocha railway station Madrid


Madrid park



Nearer home, two London views..




No prizes for working this one out



Bernkastel in the Mosel valley Germany



A very small town "Cheb" just over German border in Cz.



Prague



Karlstyn Cz



Bruxelles-Spanish palace at night.



That's a small "potted" tour, I'm off to Scotland and Florence/Tuscany later in the year and I'll inflict that on you as well!

[linuxman2003]

you lucky SOB  Man... we dont even have HILLS around where I live... just a bunch of chemical plants 

[spc]

Wow............I've got to get to Europe!!!!  thanks for sharing!!!!

[nightrider]

bad ass pics! not just the locations which were awesome, but you had some good (to my taste) shots in there... too many to mention one by one.... but... the Pantheon looks hella forbidding (amazing it's still around), nice shot of the alley in Croatia, and that street in Cheb is a trip. 

[scottpA_GS]

Is the one London Pic Peel Square? I always wanted to go there... my last name is Peel 

[The Buddha]

Ooooooo ... me like Germany the 2 in Ceczhoslovakia and some others ... the rest ... meeeh ... that first one in portugul was particularly what shall I say ... like India ...
Cool.
Srinath.

[Cal Price]

Talking of India, I have always fancied going there, If I could manage it I would like to do one of those "Great train journeys of the world" I believe there is a nine-dayer North to south journey possible in India but i think it's a bit expensive and will have to wait on my wish-list

It is second after the St Louis-Memphis-Greenville-Natchez-Baton Rouge-New Orleans riverboat trip. After discovering one of those old advertising mirrors for a steamboat paddle-wheeler I asked if it was still done and as a result have a atanding invitation to aligator steak's at OMW's place.

scottpA_GS, the London shots are Trafalgar square from the entrance of the National Gallery and the one with St Pauls looming is probably from Fleet Street of the Holbourn area.

nightrider, Cheb was a real revalation to me, a gingerbread town. It was the first town I came to in Cz and I stayed overnight there at a place called "Pension Hanibal" I parked the GS outside and went in, found my way to reception one floor up and the old dear pointed at the GS on a cctv screen and said Autoblahblah?? I suppose the helmet and gear were a clue and beconed me to bring it inside, they took it through to a sort of secure covered courtyard for the night. It was a delightful place very cheap and freindly, I had a great meal the only downside was by ten everything was closing up but after a days ride from Bernkastel cutting south to Bayruth before a forested mountain ride to the border through a spectacular thunder and lightening storm (but only light rain) I was well tired anyway.

[nightrider]

holy crap. gmap "dover england to cheb, czech republic" = 983 km about 10 hours 14 minutes...

GS tour of Europe is like, at your front door. In 10 hours here I wouldn't even be to LA, and that would be on I-5

I wonder how many people on this board would be down for a GSTwins tour of Europe... 

30 days expenses at $75/day = $2250 

30 days rental at $100/day = $3000

airfare = $1200

Total: $6450

[Cal Price]

I suppose it could be done in that sort of timescale but I meandered about a fair bit, I spent the first night in the Mosel Valley at the pictured place, Bernkastel and sampled the product of the vinyards, had a late start and made Cheb for the next night, it was just a name I saw on the map and thought I would take a look. On the return leg I left Prague on a Sunday morning and spent Sunday night at Weimar in Germany and the second at Valkenburg in Holland.
I recon the secret of touring is to take it easy and do as you fancy, that's why I never book anything in advance, works for me!

See all you guys on your Euro-tour then.

[Caffeine]

Thanks, Cal, for making me hate my life a bit more.   I'll post some pictures of the local shopping malls and endless suburban sprawl I'm stuck in the middle of here in south Florida.

From your first two pics, can we assume you live in the castle at the top of the hill?   Do you come down at night to terrorize the villagers?   If so, we want to visit and join the fun!  I've always wanted to terrorize villagers.   

[Cal Price]

Yeah, that's it, you sussed me out, the castle, my Avatar is also my gaff, I don't bother much with terrorising the villagers all the time the innkeepers have voluptuous daughters, all that garlic around their doors keeps me away most of the time, the villagers that is, not the innkeepers.......