I made it down to Austria on Thursday to meet up with an IRC friend nicknamed Turing.
He's living in Innsbruck for the moment, though he's about to go to Belgium for about 5 months for a change of scenery.
We went wandering around Innsbruck for a while, grabbed some food, and went to see Prometheus in 3D. Talked politics, countries, nationalism, and just caught up. I crashed on his couch for the night.
On Friday, we made a little run down into Italy for lunch. We took some side roads down, considerably extending the time we expected to be riding, but the sights were awesome. It went something like this; L38 through Patsch, Brenner Str/182 down to the border to Italy, then SS12 to Vipiteno, SS44 up, over and through what felt like 72 mountains to Merano, then SS38 into Bozen-Bolzano.
It is easy at least to get a Garmin to take this route; tell it to avoid tolls.
We wandered what seemed like endless pedestrian walkways until we found a great little restaurant. Mushroom risotto, mmm.
We blitzed back on the Italian and Austrian autobaun (with limits and tolls, meh). The tolls amounted to about eur13 for motorcycles.
We shook hands, I split off, with Turing going back home and with me continuing to Karlsruhe Germany for the night.
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