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Pictures - my 8278 km summertrip 17.8.-3.9. 2001
Myself still packing in Hyvinkää, Finland.
My first hotel room couple kilometers south from Frankfurt am Mainin, Germany.
Col de grand St. Bernard. Pass at the border of Switzerland and Italy
And another picture from the same place - only different direction.
Col de petit St. Bernard. Pass at the border of Italy and France.
And another picture also from here.
My apartment for 4 days in Tignes, France
A picture from top of Le Grande Motte 3452 meters. The closer peak is Mt. Pourri and at the back you can see Mt. Blanc.
Anoher picture from the same place. Here you can see one of the villages - Tignes Le Lac.
Little bit skiing and now you can see Le Grande Motte.
And another picture from the same place. And as you can see the weather was quite good.
And still little bit skiing downhill and you can see villages: Tignes Val Claret and Le Lac .
And after skiing back to village with "Funiculaire"=ski train.
My appartment from the outside.
Evening walk to the village of Le Lac. At background you can see a young fly-fisher.
A local kids with a bicycle with sidecar.
Local fishes in the protected area of the lake...
New tourists office in Le Lac.
The first of the passes I ride during my 400km daytrip from Tignes: Cormet de Roselend 1968m.
And the next pass:
And another pass: Col du Glandon 1874m.
And yet another: Col du Calibier 2645m.
And the last and the highest: Col de L'Iseran 2770m.
And more pictures from the same place...
...and third. During winter here is something like 3 meters of snow and you can ski here from the summerskiingarea.
And late evening picture from my balcony.
Next day I ride from Tignes to Nancy, France. And this picture is from central park of Nancy.
This is my friend Emmi, who worked the summer in Nancy. And at right is her roommate in there.
And more animals from the park...
There was also couple bears in there.
And another picture from the bears...
And Emu...
And couple of storks...
Simpasses...
...and moore...
...and yet another.
Couple of bambis enjoying the sunny afternoon.
And my hotel room from Nancy.
And yet another 1000km and I'm at the border of Austria and Czech Republic where my father had booked a room for us.
And next day we ride to Brno and watched the GP of Czech Republic. Here are some 125cc.
And a picture of a flagman...(missed the bike)
...and another :-)
And 125cc bikes on a lap of honor.
And next pictures from 250cc race...
...another...
...third...
...and there was also some others.
And yet another picture.
And my father after refressing watershower.
And yet another picture from 250cc race.
And from the public.
Crowds celebration after 250cc race...
...and it continued.
And picture from 500cc race.
And another where Valentino Rossi is closing the leader.
And a picture to another direction.
And from the public.
And Rossi celbrating his win on a lap of honor...
...and it continues.
And then starts the party.
People getting out of the moto circuit Brno.
And picture from my hotel room in Chioggia Italy - near Venice.
And if You look exactly You can see the see...:-)
And my room near Munchen Germany.
And finally waiting ferry in Stocholm Sweden to get back to Finland. And it had rained the last 1000km - and in Finland the rain continued...