What's the best journey you've taken so far within Europe ?

What's been so far, the best journey that you've taken in or within
any country in Europe (by either road, rail, plane, boat, bus, or a
combo of any of these forms of transport) and please elaborate on what
caused it to be so good and memorable for you ?

> What's been so far, the best journey that you've taken in or within
> any country in Europe (by either road, rail, plane, boat, bus, or a
> combo of any of these forms of transport) and please elaborate on what
> caused it to be so good and memorable for you ?

Travelling by motorcycle back in 1986 from London to Berlin and on to Poland
visiting Poznan, Warsaw Katowice, Krakow and back. Crossing across from the
west to the east was quite something, especially when you could see a
machine gun tracking your movements. Highlights of the trip? Crossing Check
Point Charlie, sleeping in a tent in the middle of a roundabout in Berlin,
eating like a king for £3 for the two of us in the famous (was then)
Krokodile restaurant in Warsaw and not being slung out for wearing bikers
gear, a fantastic new empty motorway from Warsaw to Katowice allowing
reasonably quick *cough* touring speeds , the lovely city of Krakow and the
extremely disturbing Auschwitz, which still haunts me to this day.

What made it special? As always the people you meet on the way, total
strangers who went out of their way to help, like the firemen who all turned
out and helped us find a friends house at 11.00pm, the group who
straightened out my front wheel rim after a pothole interface, the guy in
the taxi in Katowice who helped us on our way when lost again, and a myriad
of others who risked quite a lot to talk to us in Eastern Germany and
finally getting nicked in East Berlin by a copper who appeared to have been
beamed down from outerspace demanding hard currency.

The road trip from Oslo to Bergen with a stop in Flam. The scenery is
just beautiful!!

Max

On 11/10/05 13:54, in article 8t9nk1le6jiupjvbgvpenjvo46om3h5k8t@,
"DDT Filled Mormons" <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:

> Unforgettable.

Well, so is food poisoning.

I thought the climb of the Pyrenees and visiting Andora was a great drive.
The back country of Nice is spectacular in parts, the perched hill towns.

I still remember the trip up the Jungfrau as being great, although
our daughter turned blue at the high altitude.

"The Reid" <dontuse@fell-walker.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Following up to chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and
> prestwich tesco 24h offy
>
>>> the ferry from Inverness to Shetland was nice, good food,
>>> seabirds, dolphins, Fair Isle with rainbow round it.
>>
>>I wouldn't usually put airplane journeys down as memorable, but I took a
>>'daytrip' from Orkney to Shetland once in a 4-seater aircraft. We flew
>>from Kirkwall to Lerwick flying over Fair Isle, and the weather was
>>amazing.
>
> Now does that count as public transport? :-)

Where was that mentioned in the OP?

"Martin" <me@> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:48:19 +0100, The Reid
> <dontuse@fell-walker.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Following up to Martin
>>
>>>As good as airport bus from Linate to Malpensa in dense fog in the
>>>middle of the night?
>>
>>my friends landing at Ryan's "Barcelona" (Gerona) and trying to
>>take a taxi to their boat in the marina.
>
> The passengers of a flight from Turkey to A'dam last weekend. Because
> Turkish airlines are not being the most reliable in the world, many
> Dutch people specify a Dutch airline when they visit Turkey. On this
> flight at Istanbul, the Dutch owned plane had an engine problem and
> the passengers were transferred to a Turkish owned Airbus. When it
> took off there was a loud bang and all the luggage lockers opened
> After a while the plane went temporary out of control when the
> autopilot tripped out. The plane returned to Istanbul to have the
> autopilot fixed. The plane took off again and again the autopilot
> tripped out and the pilot lost control, again the plane returned to
> Istanbul. Amazingly only 20 passengers refused to get back on the
> plane when it made it's third attempt to fly to A'dam. The 20 who
> rebelled were flown back by a Dutch airline the next day.

Just remember, any landing you can walk away from is a good one. It's
considered a huge bonus if you can use the plane again.