GPS -> Slovenia

Hi!

I'm planning a trip to Slovenia in august.

Going france, germany, austria, slovenia (1000 miles, friday to
sunday?)

Staying a week, then a week for slovenia, italy, switzerland
and france to come home (to england.)

BUT, I'm really god at getting lost! And have been thinking
about gps.

Prolly can't afford the works with autocom noise reduction etc.
but prolly don't need voice - I do like navigating.. Something
to ensure I can find where I am on a map would be helpfull or a
good back up.

Anybody have cheapish solutions they are happy with? I was
thinking palm pc with simple gps unit and software might be
the way as it's multy use (the pc bit.)

Thanks for any suggestions.

If any have tips for these countries they will be welcome too!

mico
thundercat

 

I prefer the other one...

Did you enjoy it then?

 

Ah, I'm off there in July, was going to take the bike down. Then
realised that Easyjet are doing it for sixty quid, which wouldn't even
pay for a third of my fuel, let alone ferry, hostel, fiddling with the
old international cover etc.....
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Having just been there on EasyJet I'm intending to go back on the bike....

 

Zlatorog (green label)?

Very much so. I'd like to see more of the country such as the
mountains & Adriatic coast rather than just Ljubljana & Bled.
There's a market for a taxi firm around Bled though - walking
from Lesce-Bled station to the lake and back in 30C temperatures
was not good!

This time I went with a mate, but and I'd like to go back again
with my SO. There's no way she'd go on a bike though so it would
be EasyJet again.

 

We did mountains, missed the coast unfortunately - and the whole eastern
part of the country.

Especially the bit where the path disappears Did you go down what
logically seems to be a walking path but just ends up at a pile of rubble
and the river?

Indeed. I presume you would have seen the bikes whizzing through Bled
heading out towards the mountains? Lovely road just outside town - very fast
looking but also very pretty.

Except for the bit where a landslide has closed one lane.

 

They looked impressive from a distance.

Yes ) I think it's the start of a cycle path that they
haven't finished yet. And we went down the bit just by the bridge
where there was a 'pedestrian' sign[1] but that just went into the
middle of nowhere too.

That's it. We were there all Sunday afternoon - lovely scenery[2],
good food, cold beer, all against the back drop of the sound of dozens
of bikes that you could hear starting to give some beans as they got
out
of town.

Oh dear.

[1] As the Armco barrier started, on the RHS of the road there was
a track next to a sign (white circle, red border, person walking)
so we thought it might be a track to cut off the hill & corner
which we could see that was where the road went. It wasn't.
[2] Both the mountains & the good looking Slovenian women.

 

This always puzzles me - is the temperature of the beer the most
important thing about it? I mean, I can understand the merkins going
on about "Ice-cold beer" because their stuff is so shite you wouldn't
want to taste it, but in the UK you (we) should really know better.

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I agree - to an extent.

IMO, taste is the most important, but on a hot day it needs to
be refreshing too. And a cold beer does this better than a 'warm'
beer[1].

[1] Even real ale should be served cool (around 11-12C I think).
It's a misconception put about by foreigners that in Britain we
drink warm beer.

 

Er.. that was a NO pedestrian sign.

There was a road towards a Pension on the LHS that did cut off the hill and
corner (well not cut off, but avoid the traffic).

 

Ah, seems obvious now! Still, since we weren't driving at all while
we were there, we didn't bother learning the Slovenian Highway code.

We saw that, but that could have been a third unwanted detour
so carried on by the road-side. There was a steep embankment
a bit further on on the RHS that we went over to cut a bit off though.

 

Yeah, but a good beer always tastes better than a bad beer. The local
brew here in Basel (Warteck) is pretty piss poor stuff, but there's a
pretty decent microbrewery here too. I'd rather have a slightly
off-cold example of the laater than any amount or tempertature of the
former.

And in more news...

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I found Union a bit too yeasty/gassy.

Mind you I bought a couple of cans back so I will compare again at some
point.

CHeap as chips in the Merkator

 

Taken out of context, I found that quite an amusing phrase.

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Alex
BMW R1150GS
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Windy's "little soldier"

 

Is it a good thing that I've been whooshed?

 

By far the cheapest is to forget expensive mapping GPS's, and their
very expensive maps, and to get a cheap non-mapping GPS which you'll
use in conjunction with paper maps. You can still make up routes, sets
of useful waypoints & landmarks, etc., using free PC software and (or
cheap) public maps which you can then load into your GPS. Much cheaper
and more flexible than having to rely on the maps which your GPS
vendor can provide, which in the case of countries like Slovenia may
not be of the best quality anyway.

Take a look at the Garmin Geko 201 or Garmin Yellow eTrex models. For
motorcycle use (e.g. attached to handlebars) you'll probably need to
squish the batteries in with some thin foam in order to stop the
vibration causing intermittent contact and consequent switch off.

 

Hey thanks.

I'm looking into it. Maybe I'll spend some of the save
on some nice braided hoses ;O)

mic
thundercat