Advice for first European trip

[Sloth]

This is a great thread , lots of good Advice ...Thanks

[Selous]

If your like me & have a limited amount of holiday time.
I pers prefier to plan the route using tyre to go (used for Tomtom Rider & Garman), I also like to have a local maps michaline type are handy, so i can mark my route, just me may be but if we deviate en route as see something intresting & never know something could happen to your twat nav.

Remember to disable any speed cameras on your twat nav for france.

In some cases I have book the camp site for once we get there for however long (usally 5 days, rest is riding to from), some sites shut for lunch.

Go to the AA web site type in driving in europ you can download the latest legal requirments you need to do to be legal.

Some countrys like Austria have there road tax charge (vinyet) things like thiese you can pick up at local gararges.prior to entering the country.

Main on ENJOY take your time.



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[Simon_100]

......those motorway speed traps on Spanish motorways are really hard to miss though, great big bloody sign above them! Watch your speed in tunnels I got done in Spain coming from France the cops nabbed me at the toll booths, and I got the discounted fine. They have cameras at the point they reduce the speed for tunnels then if you are foreign they have you at the toll.

Yup, the motorway traps are obvious enough. On main roads you either have a picture of a camera with the word 'radar' and the speed limit sign, otherwise a sign sayong something like ' Por su seguridad, control de velocidad', meaning,'For your own safety speed control' i.e, a radar trap is somewhere ahead. But the trap can be either in your direction or the other way, which creates risks in themselves as if your following a driver at, say 130 kph*, they' suddenly slam on the anchors when they either see the trap or their satnav tells them it's there!

All of the border tunnels and most other major tunnels, of which there are lots in Spain, now have speed controls that works out your average having clocked on on entry and exit. To be fair, Spanish road safety has improved to the extent that last years death toll finally reached the levels set when statistics were first collected - in 1961!

Regs

Simon
* as of now the normal roads limit is 90 kph, but until all the signs are changed I don't think they're implementing this!

[Simon_100]

Yep most supermarkets sell them, just take the old one and point lol..

Not in Spain Russ, at least the out of the way places that I always head for :laugh:

Here the most reliable fuel is meths - in Spanish 'alcohol de cremar' or 'alcohol azul' - it's available everywhere as people us it for cleaning glass - the Spanish are obsessed with household cleanliness - as long as that's not being 'clean' with the taxman

Regs

Simon

[siddhartha]

From ABR Mawse - we have Adventures on a Motorcycle - gearing up for touring and camping

It has good advice for first time trip to Europe - I would recommend the paperback edition:

its now also available in kindle format from Amazon at £4.90
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00FX8Q4XG

or the usual £13 paperback
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www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1291332480
or
as an epub book here
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[Francis Begbie]

Re the unmanned petrol stations.

There's normally plenty of people willing to stick it on their card if you give them the euros in cash.

[JimboF650]

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