A Short Break On My Harley Davidson – Visiting Historic Placed In Italy And Greece
December 10th, 2010 by Jason Pechstein, under Travel and Leisure. No Comments
I bet you had that sometimes too, that you just decide it is now time for a getaway. Just “What the heck” and take a short break. I bet you had that sometimes. You are just fed up and want to break out and you just want to feel the wind through your hair and just drive your motorbike. So, I got on my motorbike (a beautiful Harley Davidson) after I packed all my stuff in literally half an hour and then I still didn’t even know where my bike would take me. But my Harley was ready to take me anywhere.
I always wanted to visit the Boot (Italy) and the land of the ancient gods (Greece), so I decided my bike would take me there. And thus, I headed for the Italian border. Driving through the mountains and environment of Switzerland was great and my old Harley just sounded right when we climbed the Swiss mountains time and time again. Yes, no matter its age, you can always count on the Harley technology to take you anywhere. Harley owners know they can rely on their machine at any time. And thus, my machine took me to the Italian border close to Lake Como.
Italy was different though. Italians go crazy as soon as they get in a car and you really have to be careful when you drive a bike on the Italian motorways. Some of those Italian drivers tend to go crazy as soon as they get into their cars. Needless to say, when we drove from the north of Italy to Rome, we had some interesting experiences. Especially when you had paid for the toll roads and had to get from 20 lanes into 3… Boy! But then again, I must say that when you drive a machine like a Harley Davidson through the Italian landscape, you also get a lot of attention from the Italians, who love to see a great motorbike like my old Harley.
After we visited Rome and the Colosseum, we crossed the country to the city of Ancona to take the ferry to Hellas (in other words, Greece). We drove through the Greek country and ended up in the hot city of Athens (with a great nightlife by the way), but for us Athens was too humid and too hot, so we didn’t want to stay for too long. Thus we drove to Piraeus Harbor and took the (beautiful) ferry to the Greek Island of Crete (an incredible island). We drove around the island and visited some great and historic places. Heraklion, Chernossisos (where we ran into a bunch of young people who were having an incredible party), Chania and Malia (again a lot of young English party animals) were visited and we had a great time.
We saw Crete in all its facets and just kept driving all over the island. And yes, it is stunning. And yes, our Harley Davidsons were the talk of the town everywhere we went. We never saw a similar machine when we drove across the island and everywhere we went, people were waving to us. I really have to mention that: the Greek hospitality is amazing and if you ever have the time, you should take a trip to Greece or one of its beautiful islands.
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