Countdown to our Adventure

Well its a week to go until we start on our long planned motorcycle trip across 8 of the most famous Alpine passes.  Passes that have starred in many a TV programme, programmes like Top Gear  and films like James Bond  007 have made these roads so famous.
We will be travelling on our BMW K1600 GTLE motorcycle and our planned journey will take us 3 weeks and cover about 3000 miles, this is one of the joys of being retired

The plan is that we travel from our home in the North West of the UK to Hull and take the ferry to Zeebrugge, from there we will travel through Belgium Germany Switzerland into Italy and criss cross  back and forth across the Alps and eventually arrive in Austria for our homeward bound trip through Germany and Belgium back to the ferry.
This is not the 1st time we have been abroad on our bike but this is the 1st time we have travelled alone and booked the hotels. Although we will see some beautiful scenery and fantastic places feelings of excitement are often outweighed by feelings of trepidation, will the routes go to plan, will the hotels be habitable, will the bike be OK, will we have the right clothes for the weather which we expect to be literally from one extreme to another. We can only wait and see