20th Aug - Arrival in Geneva, Switzerland.
After leaving the hotel in Evereux the plan was to hit the road hard from the word go. But as we pulled into our first garage for fuel I noticed some oil on glens back tyre.
On closer inspection we saw that the bolt for the shaft drive oil filler was hanging off and leaking badly. We had some liquid metal, which I had got off my mate Seamus before I left and we *gunthered the bolt together after a few minutes. With a little help from a friendly french guy who told us where we could go to get a honda place to replace the damaged bolt. But our gunther job seemed good so we gave the Honda place a miss and got back on the road. We saw a bit of Paris, but mostly went around it on the ring road. It was great to see the Eiffel tower. Then onto Dijon and to the Swiss border and into Geneva.
We drove on the most stunning alpine roads I've ever seen. I remember going into a tunnel at the start of the alps and popping out in the most amazing valley I've ever seen. We got into Geneva at about 8:30pm where there was a football match crowd going to the main stadium.
Interference from Police radios made our Autocoms difficult to use. This happened a couple of time on our journey but was terrible withing a kilometer or two of the Geneva football stadium. We looked around a bit for somewhere to stay and quickly figured that the best idea would be to go get a camping spot. We heard there was a few around lake Geneva.
We went to get a few cans of beer for the camping, then as we went to leave Glens bike just died. We fiddled around with it for an hour and a half but eventually gave up. We stuck Glen on the back of my bike and we went off in search of a camping site. But we had been so long trying to fix the bike that they were all closed. We eventually just bonked into a nice camping site around the lake. That night we had a few beers and a sing song with some German dudes. We called it a night at about 1am. Tomorrow we would have to figure out what was wrong with Glens Sick Bike which we had to leave back in Geneva City.
(*Gunthering - The process of completing of a task in the quickest possible time at the expense of quality or attention to detail*)
On closer inspection we saw that the bolt for the shaft drive oil filler was hanging off and leaking badly. We had some liquid metal, which I had got off my mate Seamus before I left and we *gunthered the bolt together after a few minutes. With a little help from a friendly french guy who told us where we could go to get a honda place to replace the damaged bolt. But our gunther job seemed good so we gave the Honda place a miss and got back on the road. We saw a bit of Paris, but mostly went around it on the ring road. It was great to see the Eiffel tower. Then onto Dijon and to the Swiss border and into Geneva.
We drove on the most stunning alpine roads I've ever seen. I remember going into a tunnel at the start of the alps and popping out in the most amazing valley I've ever seen. We got into Geneva at about 8:30pm where there was a football match crowd going to the main stadium.
Interference from Police radios made our Autocoms difficult to use. This happened a couple of time on our journey but was terrible withing a kilometer or two of the Geneva football stadium. We looked around a bit for somewhere to stay and quickly figured that the best idea would be to go get a camping spot. We heard there was a few around lake Geneva.
We went to get a few cans of beer for the camping, then as we went to leave Glens bike just died. We fiddled around with it for an hour and a half but eventually gave up. We stuck Glen on the back of my bike and we went off in search of a camping site. But we had been so long trying to fix the bike that they were all closed. We eventually just bonked into a nice camping site around the lake. That night we had a few beers and a sing song with some German dudes. We called it a night at about 1am. Tomorrow we would have to figure out what was wrong with Glens Sick Bike which we had to leave back in Geneva City.
(*Gunthering - The process of completing of a task in the quickest possible time at the expense of quality or attention to detail*)
