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Trip to Praha(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)
Posted by: -RD-
Not that useful information to most around here I'm afraid, but sharing is fun. And you still don't have enough stuff about bikes here 
Soo on Thursday 29th of July I started on the trip from Riihimäki, Finland. Rode to Helsinki, took a boat to Tallinn and rode to Tarto for the int. Jögeva Treff Bike Week. After spending the weekend drunk with bikers and strippers and stuff, and a night in Pärnu, I started towards Poland, where a friend of mine would be waiting. Latvia and Lithuenia IMHO are just drive-through-countries, so I only stopped to fuel the bike on the way. And to get lost in Riga, of course.
Turns out my friend didn't want to go to Poland alone so she waited for me in Marijampole in Lithuenia. I got there around 3 am and woke up the receptioinist of the hotel where we stayed that night. Til then, I'd slept in a tent...
Taking off around noon, we headed for the border and the dreaded Poland...from everyone all we'd heard for horror stories about roads, people, traffic. Expecting worst, we crossed the border. Still waiting for the worst to show itself, we left Via Baltica(E67) for the truck-routes, riding through Bialystok and Lublin instead of Warszawa. It soon became obvious that Poland was in fact the best country on the way. Traffic was a bit different, but not i a bad way...it was only good that finally somewhere people actually moved, and gave way when there was someone faster behind! And the roads were actally in better condition than in Finland...plus with all the green trees, it was like driving through a park! The towns were quite beatiful also, and the people nice. We slept in Krasnik in a gas station motel, visited Krakow the next day, briefly, and crossed the border to Czech Republic before dusk.
Praha for me was quite a different experience than I imagine it to be for most. First of all, I didn't have a place to stay. Second, I didn't have any local currency, or, it turned out, money on my card account any more.(I don't have a credit card, only Visa Electron without credit). We'd arrived there around 1am, and well, I started driving around the city in search of something, or anything...by 7:30am, I'd learned to get around the city one way or the other, and learned to move in local morning rush, and found myself a nice bench in a nice park on which to sit on, trying not to fall asleep...I had another friend staying in the city as well, and I got the address to the cheap hotel in which she was staying around 8, so I rode there, got my stuff in the room, and rode back to the city to look for a place where I can change estonian money in to czech korynas. Well, you can't. Impossible as it was to believe, there's not a bank in the whole damn country that accepts estonian money, and having had the card-trouble there, all my money was in estonian. Whee. And my yamaha was running low on oil, which is quite unusual, bike being 01-model and all. At least my mood started to be quite fitting for the local traffic...
Finally I had some money transferred on the account by my father, so I could pay for the hotel, and some gas to get away from the place eventually. And to get oil for my Fazer. At 6pm I finally got to the shower, and bed, and slept til morning...no nightlife for me then. Being broke 2000 kilometers from home, my options for the morning were quite few...11:30am I fired up the Yam and headed for the highway.
The ride home would've been worth Iron Butt award I think...I only stopped to fuel the bike and to get a Red Bull or Battery for myself when the eyelids got too heavy, and I made it easily to the 17:25 Seacat from Tallinn to Helsinki, with 1900km's on the clock. Last night I got home, or at least to our local hangout for a coffee at 8pm with the total of 2000 kilometers and 33 hours of travelling. You can see that on the bike, the leathers and beneath my eyes, even now...
All in all, it was a great trip, and as soon as I get a chance(and a real budget instead of money for the gas there and back!!!) I'm gonna do it again. Longer trip would be in order as well, only riding through more central europe is gonna cost quite a bit more, with the gas prices, and motels and all...or at least I need a new tent 
Ahum, I've contributed for the "bike"-part of the forum 
Next time I need a camera too.
Posted by: Reck
Sounds like a truckload of fun man. Good read. 
Posted by: -RD-
You wouldn't destroy a forum with good memories like this would you?? 
Posted by: Rez
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