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Taking the scenic route: my 1000-mile motorbike adventure from England to Estonia.
Palanga beach, Klaipėda, Lithuania, Kiel ferry, Bennekom, Netherlands, Jelgava, Latvia, Parnu, Estonia, spatial perception, freeride mountain biking, north shore mountain biking, Ténéré, Roberts barracks, Osnabruck, Germany, Battle of Arnhem, 1st Airborne division, Parachute regiment, A Bridge too Far, Major-General John Dutton Frost, 115 provost company Royal Military Police, Bennekom, Arnhem, Netherlands, John Frost bridge,, Yamaha Ténéré, motorbike adventure, Op Dryout Chris Shirley MA FRGS Palanga beach, Klaipėda, Lithuania, Kiel ferry, Bennekom, Netherlands, Jelgava, Latvia, Parnu, Estonia, spatial perception, freeride mountain biking, north shore mountain biking, Ténéré, Roberts barracks, Osnabruck, Germany, Battle of Arnhem, 1st Airborne division, Parachute regiment, A Bridge too Far, Major-General John Dutton Frost, 115 provost company Royal Military Police, Bennekom, Arnhem, Netherlands, John Frost bridge,, Yamaha Ténéré, motorbike adventure, Op Dryout Chris Shirley MA FRGS

Taking the scenic route: my 1000-mile motorbike adventure from England to Estonia.

In summer 2022, I rode my Yamaha Ténéré motorbike over a thousand miles from my home in the UK across Europe to Estonia – one of my longest motorbike trips ever.

The endeavour was tiring, navigationally complex (for someone who’s only ever ridden a motorbike in the UK and US), yet bags of fun. I took a ferry to the Netherlands, rode to northern Germany (stopping at an old Army base I was posted to in 2007), took another ferry to Lithuania; and finally rode to Estonia’s capital city of Tallinn, via Lithuania and Latvia.

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