Motoroute du Soleil 2002
		The BP-station near Eijsden on the A2(E25) near the Belgium border. We are starting here around 12:00u. One hour ahead of the very unrealistic schedual for today.
		The  super de luxe Roadbook reader is as well a good windshield for tho oncoming cold days.
		Soaking outfits in the first open Hotel in 2 hours. For your information this is on the road to St.Die. The next morning we passed a truckers hotel/restaurant half a kilometer further down the road.
		Somewhere near Le Thillot in the Vosgès. (2nd day)
		The fly by
		It can't be far now,... huh!
		A nice view on Cap Ferrat from our bedroom window.
		So this is the trick of the cote d'azur. A weekend in t-shirt without a problem while the rest of the continent is freezing its fingers of. Yeah, haha,.. easy smiling when you always need sunglasses.
		The 'Grand Corniche' is nice and quiet in the weekend.
		And a picture of the bedroom window
		On the 'route Napoleon' , N85. In the background the clear blue Mediterranian sky above Nice and Monaco, some 150km more to the south. We're on our way back to the freezing drizzles in the north.
		The weather on the return trip to the north was much better. There was a clear sky during the first day and temperatures around 10 degrees (C) were comfortable enough. Here we are glad to come down from Gap to the little warmer valleys to Grenoble
		Time to stop.
		The first signpost with St.Claude on it. On the onward trip we missed St.Claude due to a little navigational error. So here is finally the last leap to the centre of our trip.
		Our Hotel 'the Piano'.
		Near Namur (B). Today we rode extremely efficiently. At this point we have already covered some 700 km and it is still light. The average speed on this day was around 75km/h including the breaks over (96 km/h ex. breaks)
		Also near Namur.
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