Schoolboy route planning error, having the hotel as the first waypoint. Typical of Tomtom's perverse nature (you can tell it's a she), she had me riding out several kms before taking me back to where I started. Not for her a quick nip round the block, nope, a 5 mile trek. My own fault. By the time I left Karlsruhe I had already been riding an hour.
Then things went from bad to worse.
There are 3 things guaranteed when it comes to Germany;
1) They will always lose a world war.
2) They will always beat England in a penalty shoot out.
3) It will always piss down when you are on your motorcycle.
And so it was. Not long on the autobahn and the heavens opened again. No immediate service station this time BUT small emergency laybys. Fuck it, I pulled over and once again struggled into my rain gear. Then, I had to negotiate my way back onto a limited visibility motorway from a layby no longer than 50 metres, with traffic speeding by. Luckily, a big enough gap appeared allowing me to gas Ginny into the deluge.
4 hours later, at my pee stop I was still in the waterproofs. It had been raining on and off the entire journey, over 200 miles and didn't look like getting any better, so I left them on.
Vindicated once again. By the time I arrived at Eurotunnel, 4pm ish, I had sat through several more heavy downpours. This time, without a care. One has to take the smooth with the rough 😁
My early arrival, didn't bear the fruit I had hoped, namely an earlier crossing, so I am writing this whilst I wait for my scheduled train at 18:20. We should get the call to proceed in 20 mins.
I'll get the hour time diff back, obviously, so I anticipate being home about 7pm. I'll be keeping the waterproofs on, just in case.
I have been getting a lot of "ride to start point" options lately despite the route being planned from where I am sitting.. Even when planning with Google maps and setting start from zoomed up close
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