During the return trip, I had picked a small hotel in the tiny town of Eloise near the French/Swiss border, confident that its location at a dead end should at least ensure a good rest for the next day. Wrong! With windows wide open because of the heat, the town's night-time peace and quiet were shattered by an articulated car transporter getting stuck trying to turn around in the square opposite, most probably another victim of satnav. An accompanying truck was also boxed in and thoughtlessly kept his engine running throughout. It went on for ages with locals out of bed running around in their shorts and trying to be helpful - a cacophony of noisy diesel engines, reversing beepers, airbrakes and people shouting. It was finally extricated from the square and reversed out of the village so silence prevailed once more. So, the good rest for what turned out to be a long wet ride the following day was well shot!
The trip totalled 2,200 miles of mostly hot dry weather with a couple of days of high winds, heavy rain and some lightning, many tunnels including Mont Blanc. The European HOG Rally 2011 is in Biograd, Croatia, in May so will probably be a bit cooler, 1,400 miles away, hmm? And, the Sustenpass was missed out on this trip. Maybe both? The Harley's clean again, serviced, and ready to go.
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