The Europe 2011 Road Trip

Mikey Commentary: Have bacon and eggs for breakfast before moving off to schledming a mountain biking area. Park up and go into the cable car station and get maps and use wifi. There were 2 trails that use the cable car. Check out the station and see that loads of bikers with full body armour so decide not to go up. Go back to where we camped before and decide to ride a trail. A...

Mikey Commentary Go to leogang to check out the trails and when there decide that it is not for us so move onto saalback and then hinterglemm. Park up the other side of town and walk to the cable car station. Decide that it is alright and then stop for a coffee / hot chocolate in town. Then try to find a free camp spot that is not too far away so we could get...

Mikey Commentary: Wake up at a half decent time and travel back to hinterglemm to do the trail. Park in the underground car park and then set up the bikes and then go and get tickets. Go up the cable car and do the blue line run. When we get to the bottom decide that the run is not designed for our bikes. Joe needs new quickrelease and a german guy behind me picked up...

Mikey Commentary: Decide to get up early and move on. Go into kitzbuhel in the morning to have a look around and to find tourist information for campsites. There is only one nearby and its pretty expensive but decide to go for it as martin was unwell and I wasn't feeling great. We then spend the rest of the day at swarzsee campsite I go to sleep for a bit as didn't sleep well the...

Mikey Commentary: Have a relaxed morning at the campsite and also go for another swim to make the most of the money. Then we start to travel towards Venice. On route we notice there was a nice small lake so we stop a bit up the road and go for a cycle back to the lake. Stop and relax at the lake for a bit before returning to the car. Then try and find a...

Mikey Commentary: Wake up from free camping and travel to padova as we think this could be a method of getting to Venice the next day. Wonder round the city checking it out in the baking heat pretty much up to 40 and our car read 44. Stop in the city to have some pizza and a nice refreshing cold coke. Then drive to train station. The price of the car park puts us off...

Mikey Commentary: Get up and travel to fusina to get a boat to Venice. Spend day in Venice wondering around. First main stop was san marco as it is seen as the main square. This was pretty busy so think its better to go to less touristy places and wonder anywhere. Really nice and maze like with lots of narrow alleys and dead ends. Take lots of photos and have a slush before wandering back...

Mikey Commentary: Wake up early and travel towards lake garde. Decide to go to limone sul garde as it seems a fairly big sized town and go to tourist info to find about campsites. There are only 2 so we go for the cheaper one. Get to the campsite and spend the rest of the day sunbathing and swimming in the lake get tea from the supermarket on site and then buy some watermelon for...

Mikey Commentary: Stay at same campsite for another day as the area and the lake are really nice. Go into town in the morning to get some shopping and then return to campsite and then chill again for the rest of the day. Want to go for a cycle but it is too hot for that. Wander back to town in the evening for a meal. Walk all the way along the front and then...

Mikey Commentary: Make the most of being at a campsite by going for a swim and having ice-cream in the morning. Then travel to lake d'idro and stop of at the town of idro. A lot smaller lake and not as clean but still nice to spend time there. Spend the afternoon by the lake and then go for a free camp nearby. Park on a level tarmac area and camp next to a river...