Ireland to Georgia Summer 2011

[Nifty W650]

Hiya,

34 year old male seeks to escape the recession soaked rat race of Ireland 2011. He is looking to pilot his trusty W650 all the way to Georgia and back over the course of 6 - 8 weeks. Bike & Owner have done 3 week trip around other parts of Europe last year and both held up pretty well.

I like riding motorbikes but I'm far from a biker. I just find that bikes are a cracking way to explore new countries. Alas, I haven't really got that much knowledge of how to fix the bike if something goes wrong (but the bike is very well behaved, will have an extensive service before I head off and I'll have breakdown cover for the EU segment of the trip).

The proposed route would take in the more out of the way sections of Germany, Czech Rep., Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and then along the north coast and on to Georgia & Armenia. On the way back I'd like to swing by the southern coast (soak up a few skin ageing UV rays) and swing up through Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia and yada, yada, yada all the way back to the ferry.

Some days I like to cover monster mileage and others do sweet feck all. I'm very fond of nosing around a UNESCO site during the day and then painting the local town red at night.

Accomodation would be a mix of camping, hostels, pensions, hotels, luxury 5 star resorts or whatever takes my fancy at the time (or whats available).

I'm pretty easy going and have no apparent social dysfunctions (at least in my slightly jaundiuced opinion). I intend to have a rough plan of the trip but allow plenty of wiggle room to change my mind (if the trip takes me to Scandanavia instead ..... so be it).

Anyhow, I'd be interested in hearing from somebody who might be interested in tagging along for some or all of the journey.

I'm kinda pencilling in travel from June-ish to August-ish.

Any takers?