This tyre looks much older this evening. Today we moved south from Luzern into the Swiss Alps proper. Riding into Andermatt we liked the feel of the place and booked a (rather expensive) hotel room early in the day. Thereafter we were finally able to leave the luggage behind and give the Ducati its head over the Furkapass and Grimselpass. Actually much of the ride was rather sedate. It would have been tantamount to sacrillege to ride fast over these mountains and...

Hello again. Sorry for the delay. Since i last wrote from Frankfurt a lot has happened although not many kilometers have been travelled. We left Neu Isenburg looking for a tyre shop in the rain, and went about 60km before we found one that sold 'all types' of tyres, and fitted them very fast, once we had paid cash up front. We were hungry for lunch so walked a few hundred meters along a country road from the tyre shop and found a bistro that was closed. Inside w...