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Title: Perspective
Post by: GSXKING on Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 09:30 AM
Those of you trying to understand our travelling distances in Australia.
This overlay gives some perspective.
Pete's (Rynglieder) travels always blow me away.
Title: Re: Perspective
Post by: Mr Gee on Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 10:02 AM
 :rofl2:  :happy1:  :lol:  :whistling:
Title: Re: Perspective
Post by: Eric GSX1400K3 on Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 10:19 AM
On that map Chris, i have driven from Portugal to Southern Turkey in 6 days, taking 3 days to get to the Italian border.
Title: Re: Perspective
Post by: KiwiCol on Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 11:57 AM
It's no wonder the big lap is called what it is. :onya:  :clapping:
Title: Re: Perspective
Post by: GSXKING on Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 03:08 PM
Col I wonder what the population comparison would be also.
Lots of parts of Australia uninhabited.  :boogie:  :coffeescreen:
Title: Re: Perspective
Post by: KiwiCol on Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 03:41 PM
Just guessing here, but I reckon Europe will have a few more peeps than Oz.  :rofl2:
Title: Re: Perspective
Post by: Hooli on Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 06:42 PM
Interesting my trip up Norway last year got to about the top of Oz. Romania didn't get to your east coast though.
Title: Re: Perspective
Post by: Hooli on Thursday, 12 March 2026, 06:16 PM
Having a few mins spare this morning I've marked the approx location of some places I've ridden too for comparison. I even rode back from most of them  :whistling:

I forgot to mark home, so you'll have to google Doncaster, South Yorkshire but it's about halfway up the UK.
Title: Re: Perspective
Post by: KiwiCol on Thursday, 12 March 2026, 07:05 PM
There's a bit of a riding gap around Poland, Belarus & Ukraine, you might go there next trip eh? :whistling:
Title: Re: Perspective
Post by: Hooli on Thursday, 12 March 2026, 07:23 PM
Quote from: KiwiCol on Thursday, 12 March  2026, 07:05 PMThere's a bit of a riding gap around Poland, Belarus & Ukraine, you might go there next trip eh? :whistling:

I'd love to do a lap of the Baltic & a slight diversion to St Petersburg along the way. Latvia etc looks amazing with all the old towns & so on.
Title: Re: Perspective
Post by: Eric GSX1400K3 on Thursday, 12 March 2026, 11:23 PM
Youve seen a lot more of "Ozurope" mate.

Latvia and Estonia are amazing, at least thats what my mum and dad said when they went a few years back.
Title: Re: Perspective
Post by: Hooli on Friday, 13 March 2026, 12:31 AM
There's still a lot more to see, even in the places I've been. So it's kinda lucky there's not much outside of europe I'd really want to see. Nothing really that tempts me enough to ever fly long haul anyway.
Title: Re: Perspective
Post by: GSXKING on Saturday, 14 March 2026, 11:59 AM
On the Oz map I've ridden from as far north as Cairns to as far south as Phillip Island from my home of Brisbane and west only as far as Roma. Plenty in between those points as well.
Title: Re: Perspective
Post by: Jeykey on Sunday, 15 March 2026, 12:39 AM
That´s one hell of a lotta k´s! Nice perspective! If you take out the sea it would a whole lot of travel here in Europe, even more countries.