First ride report on Honda Motorcycles blog

For my readers in US or elsewhere is probably hard to understand this kind of trip. It’s special for me too, because you are so far away from civilisation as we know it.

I’m trying to insert a map below:

Now. Bucuresti is where I live (Romania’s capital). First part of the trip was going to a town called Oltenita, near the Danube river (marked as 1 on the map). Here is a picture:

Then, step 2, going to Calarasi. Being near Danube, there where a lot of water birds to see:

In Calarasi, I had to take a boat to cross the river – here where all the fun started. First, waiting for the boat:

My bike on the boat:

It’s a big river. The building in the picture are from the Bulgarian shore.

Once I’ve crossed the Danube river, the scenery changed completely. Deserted roads, old villages, everything was very still. And green.

The road went through hills – and not having a straight road is always a pleasure

As I said in the beginning, is quite hard to understand the concept of old villages if you are from a “modern country”, but, here, old means old. It smells like cattle, it feels like cattle and you really are on the countryside. No running watter, only fountains, no petrol stations, no fast-foods for miles.

A little bit of off-road:

just enough to take this picture:

and finally got to Techerghiol – a famous salt lake, well known for it’s curative powers:

Then, getting to sea-side, grabbing something to eat, and run home.

600km, and my butt hurts.