I know what I'm doing? Thanks for the kind words. Statistics: Posted by WIBO — Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:36 pm ..read more

WIBO Would have loved to join you again in 2024, but I've already booked for Portugal in Sept, so cant to both. To the guys that are going, you'll have an absolute ball. WIBO knows his stuff and speaks the local lingo. Enjoy. Just wishing I could make it Bump to the top. Statistics: Posted by Heff — Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:32 pm ..read more

I budget around £100 per night on average excluding breakfast for a double room. These are actual prices, although they’re all 8+ rated on Booking dot com as I like my creature comforts: Spain October 2022 = £60 - £140 per night France July 2023 = £80 - £120 per night France June 2024 = £80 - £115 per night Food and drink is another £100/day for two and fuel is normally £25. The ferry is always expensive as I use overnight crossings. Spain was £1000 in 2022 Statistics: Posted by sven — Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:55 am ..read more

Yearly nostalgic event Statistics: Posted by ErikGustav2 — Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:00 pm ..read more

I have a compulsion when travelling to support the local economy. Eat in small local restaurants and guesthouses/hotels. (While avoiding the Burger Kings, Holiday inns and others of that kind.) It might be more expensive than buying ingredients in supermarket and cook in a camping spot and clean afterwards. But I've enjoyed some of the best meals ever in those little restaurants. Slept in quirky rooms and cabins. Met locals. Gotten great advises for places to visit. In places like (for example) Iceland, food is expensive, but I'd gladly spend double the money on local foods than take box of f ..read more

Camping can be awesome, but it's a gamble. Of course so are hotels. When wild camping, depending on how skilled you are in choosing a spot, your sleep might get interrupted by someone insisting that you to leave your spot. Right away. In the dark. Official campsites are safer and you might get nice views and meet other bikers. You might also be next to a party, or a campervan that has loud fan blowing all night. Or you might get a spot on a slope. Or 30 camping spots and only one toilet, not too clean, with a shower that is lacking hot water, or any water at all. All of these have happened to ..read more

Eric sounds like me and my wife. Of course if you travel with camping gear and it rains you have a choice, if you don’t and you find an amazing camping spot you have to move on and find a hotel. Statistics: Posted by Flipflop — Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:06 pm ..read more

No rule without exceptions. Really bad weather and wet equipment => hotel room is good. Statistics: Posted by ErikGustav2 — Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:16 am ..read more

That has to be one of the best arguments I’ve ever read On the negative side, while I was travelling up through Germany and Poland the weather was horrendous and I was really glad of being able to stay in a hotel, to bung all my clothes on the radiator so the next morning I could start out with lovely warm dry clothing. I do also love that bit of sitting on a bed with my map out working out routes for the following day with a can of tango and a pack of haribo sweets Statistics: Posted by Godspeed — Sat Feb 17, 2024 7:34 pm ..read more

I love my tent. I put it up in a nice camping place. No need to carry bags up to a hotel room No worry about safe parking. I sleep with the bike beside. Coffee/breakfast ? Just open the pannier. No need to look fora restaurant. Same tent, madras, sleeping bag every night. Feel comfortable. Easy to spot other bikers. Just walk over to chat about routes, bikes ... Often far from roads: traffic noise. Quiet Fresh air. I do not camp for saving money. I camp because I like it and I am used to it. I also sleep better in my tent than in a noisy hotel. That is me. Others like hotels, Fine for me ..read more