USA

Being a European, entering the USA for the first time is a strange sensation: everything is different, and at the same time, caused by movies, books and tv, it feels like you have known it all your life.
It's an ideal country for travelers: it's very easy to get involved in a conversation (not only because of the language), and there are enormous supermarkets everywhere, with everything you can imagine, and very diverse.

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Spain

Spain is a very diverse and big country. There are landsapes that you don't associate with Europe: deserts, canyons.
When you keep away from the coast, it's empty, and you often will have the road for you alone. That road gets you often through the many mountains of Spain, or over the dry meseta, from where you will descend unexpected into a canyon.
The cities of Spain show souvenirs of history, in the form of castles, Moorish buildings, or churches and cathedrals.
The people of Spain are as diverse as the landscape, but wherever you are, you will be welcomed when you try to speak some Spanish, and you will eat and drink deliciously.
In short, Spain is a country that never fails to impress.

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United Kingdom

Everything is different, at the other side of the North Sea. That excentric habit of riding at the wrong side of the road, to queue without pushing people aside, to celebrate everything old...
The nicest aspect is that it makes a great motorcycle country: narrow roads everywhere, many hills and mountains, and people who not only love motorcycles and cars, but also are very good drivers. Of course, the English way: always a gentleman...

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Italy

I've always had a hate-love affair with Italy: the food is delicious, the people are great to watch (a very important aspect), there is plenty idyllic mountaineous landscape, there isn't another site on earth where you can finc as many historical buildings together as in Italy, but on the other hand, it's crowded in many places, it's a rather expensive country, and, when you are blonde, Italians can become intrusive in a very unpleasant way. However, all in all, it's a great motorcycle country, if possible on an Italian bike, of course.

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France

In France, there are still many people who love driving, and besides, it's just a beautiful country. Maybe the French Alps are the most beautiful part of the Alps, and France has many regions that are worth a vacation.
The only thing is that it's such a big country when you are traveling to Spain...

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is vast of course, and we only saw small peices of it.
Here you find a view on how pleasant Sweden is for motorcyclists, and how Denmark was for us.

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Eastern Europe

The eastern part of Europe is part of the EU, nowadays. I can't imagine a better place to see that Europe stands for variety.
Slovakia has a bustling energy: everywhere, you see houses made into shops and restaurants. And it has a beautiful nature. Hungary is champion in delicious food and wine; the country is flat for the most part, but as a compensation, birds like it a lot.
Romania is a country with which we fell in love, and I think every motorcycle rider will feel the same, once having ridden there. It is incredibly beautiful, with completely preserved Middle-age towns, many beautiful mountaineous regions, and a landscape, formed by farmers, on a small s cale, that has a loveliness that you won't find anywhere else.

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Middle Europe

Germany, like France, is not only a lovely country to ride (and not only on the Autobahn!), when you're on your way to for instance Italy, but it's also, like France, a great goal for a journy on itself.
The roads are very good, there are many hilly or mountainous regions, there are many places that are not crowded at all, you can eat and drink deliciously, and the Germans are much nicer than the (Dutch) prejudices say.
Austria and Switzerland don't need an introduction, with their Alps!

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the Alps

For motorcycle riders, the Alps are probably the most beautiful mountain range to be found in this world, and from where we live, they're just around the corner!
On these pages, you find some stories that are situated in the Alps, a page on books covering the Alps, and a description of the passes where we made photographs.

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