A while ago I asked myself how many countries could be done easily in one
day starting from the UK (excluding separate countries within the UK).
The answer turned out to be 6 and it seemed like a good idea to give it a
go.

UK->France->Belgium->Netherlands->Germany->Luxembourg

It's only about 300 miles from Calais to the hotel in Luxembourg so it
should be a fairly easy run.

Of course it would be possible to do more countries in a single day but I
reckon that would require some serious mileage. (This may be a future
project).

The weather forecast is OK so I'm looking forward to it. Helen is coming
along as pillion and BiL and his girlfriend/partner are also coming on
their own bikes. Neither of them have ridden outside the UK before so it
will be quite an adventure for them.

The down side is the getting up at 5am...

--
Tony
'04 Ducati ST3, '08 DL650GT,
97 TW200, '87 semi-rat LS650, OMF#24

TMack ((E-Mail Removed)) wrote:
>
> A while ago I asked myself how many countries could be done easily in one
> day starting from the UK (excluding separate countries within the UK).
> The answer turned out to be 6 and it seemed like a good idea to give it a
> go.
>
> UK->France->Belgium->Netherlands->Germany->Luxembourg

I did Belgium->Germany->Luxembourg->Belgium->France->UK on the way back
from visiting Higgins last year. It wasn't exactly a challenge. Nor was
it really planned, as the route may suggest. Working NL into that list
would have been fairly trivial.

--
ogden

gsxr1000 - the gentleman's sports-tourer
ktm duke - the practical cross-town commuter

TMack wrote:
> A while ago I asked myself how many countries could be done easily in
> one day starting from the UK (excluding separate countries within the
> UK). The answer turned out to be 6 and it seemed like a good idea to
> give it a go.
>
> UK->France->Belgium->Netherlands->Germany->Luxembourg
>
> It's only about 300 miles from Calais to the hotel in Luxembourg so it
> should be a fairly easy run.
>
> Of course it would be possible to do more countries in a single day
> but I reckon that would require some serious mileage. (This may be a
> future project).
>
> The weather forecast is OK so I'm looking forward to it. Helen is
> coming along as pillion and BiL and his girlfriend/partner are also
> coming on their own bikes. Neither of them have ridden outside the
> UK before so it will be quite an adventure for them.
>
> The down side is the getting up at 5am...

Mildly jealous

--
Hog

TMack <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:iqreu6$o11$(E-Mail Removed):

> A while ago I asked myself how many countries could be done easily in one
> day starting from the UK (excluding separate countries within the UK).
> The answer turned out to be 6 and it seemed like a good idea to give it a
> go.
>
> UK->France->Belgium->Netherlands->Germany->Luxembourg
>
> It's only about 300 miles from Calais to the hotel in Luxembourg so it
> should be a fairly easy run.
>

Have fun. I spent a day bimbling around the Lux Ardennes last year. It is
really rather nice and deserves a long weekend by itself.


--
wessie at tesco dot net

BMW R1150GS

On Mon, 16 May 2011 16:26:53 +0100, ogden <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>TMack ((E-Mail Removed)) wrote:
>>
>> A while ago I asked myself how many countries could be done easily in one
>> day starting from the UK (excluding separate countries within the UK).
>> The answer turned out to be 6 and it seemed like a good idea to give it a
>> go.
>>
>> UK->France->Belgium->Netherlands->Germany->Luxembourg
>
>I did Belgium->Germany->Luxembourg->Belgium->France->UK on the way back
>from visiting Higgins last year. It wasn't exactly a challenge. Nor was
>it really planned, as the route may suggest. Working NL into that list
>would have been fairly trivial.

I've done about 40 countries in 20 hours before.








Ok, I was in a 767 above them...
--
GSX-R1000 K8

On Mon, 16 May 2011 15:13:10 +0000 (UTC), TMack <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>A while ago I asked myself how many countries could be done easily in one
>day starting from the UK (excluding separate countries within the UK).
>The answer turned out to be 6 and it seemed like a good idea to give it a
>go.
>
>UK->France->Belgium->Netherlands->Germany->Luxembourg
>
>It's only about 300 miles from Calais to the hotel in Luxembourg so it
>should be a fairly easy run.
>
>Of course it would be possible to do more countries in a single day but I
>reckon that would require some serious mileage. (This may be a future
>project).
>
>The weather forecast is OK so I'm looking forward to it. Helen is coming
>along as pillion

I'll be thinking of her bum.

--
Colin Irvine
ZZR1400 BOF#33 BONY#34 COFF#06 BHaLC#5
http://www.colinandpat.co.uk

On Mon, 16 May 2011 16:26:53 +0100, ogden wrote:

> TMack ((E-Mail Removed)) wrote:
>>
>> A while ago I asked myself how many countries could be done easily in
>> one day starting from the UK (excluding separate countries within the
>> UK). The answer turned out to be 6 and it seemed like a good idea to
>> give it a go.
>>
>> UK->France->Belgium->Netherlands->Germany->Luxembourg
>
> I did Belgium->Germany->Luxembourg->Belgium->France->UK on the way back
> from visiting Higgins last year. It wasn't exactly a challenge.

The ride itself isn't much of a challenge. The challenge was working out
the fastest/best route that would cover all 6.

--
Tony
'04 Ducati ST3, '08 DL650GT,
97 TW200, '87 semi-rat LS650, OMF#24

TMack ((E-Mail Removed)) wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 May 2011 16:26:53 +0100, ogden wrote:
>
> > TMack ((E-Mail Removed)) wrote:
> >>
> >> A while ago I asked myself how many countries could be done easily in
> >> one day starting from the UK (excluding separate countries within the
> >> UK). The answer turned out to be 6 and it seemed like a good idea to
> >> give it a go.
> >>
> >> UK->France->Belgium->Netherlands->Germany->Luxembourg
> >
> > I did Belgium->Germany->Luxembourg->Belgium->France->UK on the way back
> > from visiting Higgins last year. It wasn't exactly a challenge.
>
> The ride itself isn't much of a challenge. The challenge was working out
> the fastest/best route that would cover all 6.

Folkestone - Calais - Brugge - Maastricht - Aachen - Luxembourg?

--
ogden

gsxr1000 - the gentleman's sports-tourer
ktm duke - the practical cross-town commuter

In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Colin Irvine
<(E-Mail Removed)/Contact/> writes
>
>I'll be thinking of her bum.
>

+1
--
Mark Roberts

On Mon, 16 May 2011 20:12:39 +0100, ogden wrote:

> TMack ((E-Mail Removed)) wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 16 May 2011 16:26:53 +0100, ogden wrote:
>>
>> > TMack ((E-Mail Removed)) wrote:
>> >>
>> >> A while ago I asked myself how many countries could be done easily
>> >> in one day starting from the UK (excluding separate countries within
>> >> the UK). The answer turned out to be 6 and it seemed like a good
>> >> idea to give it a go.
>> >>
>> >> UK->France->Belgium->Netherlands->Germany->Luxembourg
>> >
>> > I did Belgium->Germany->Luxembourg->Belgium->France->UK on the way
>> > back from visiting Higgins last year. It wasn't exactly a challenge.
>>
>> The ride itself isn't much of a challenge. The challenge was working
>> out the fastest/best route that would cover all 6.
>
> Folkestone - Calais - Brugge - Maastricht - Aachen - Luxembourg?

Yep, pretty much - via Ghent and Antwerp, avoiding Brussels. However, it
was a close call between that route and going south though Maastricht and
then simply deviating east briefly en route to Luxembourg to take in a
small part of Germany. The latter is shorter but probably marginally
slower.

--
Tony
'04 Ducati ST3, '08 DL650GT,
97 TW200, '87 semi-rat LS650, OMF#24