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03.10.2010.
To the end of the world

Grossglockner

Total change of plan! I thought I was gonna visit Wels and Linz, and then realized that it would be better on my way back... On the way back from what? From Grossglockner!!!! And in the end it turned out that it was also on my return from another country;)
But first things first: So Grossglockner ... A wish all the motorbikers have, including me; to pass the Grossglockner hohealpen road, so I decided to go trough Austria’s inland ... Now I know it was worth it, big time! And also because I have thought, now is the best opportunity (thanks moover from motori.hr forum for reminding and enlightening me - because I almost forgot about the idea and desire). Oh, now I have a sticker that I saw on a ZR -the same as my only red, the first of May this year in Porec ... That sticker will now take the same place on my ZR :D
So I said goodbye to my friend in Attnang and set off towards Gross ... On the road I get ideas like: go to Schladming, the famous ski-place.. Navigator takes me to local roads (excluding all highways options or roads you have to pay, except ferry options. That's why it wanted to send me once with a boat over the Danube :) but I didn’t let him! I arrive in Bad Gastein, the panorama is wonderful. I stop at some direction sign and on the right is a alpine roads for which I have to pay and my Nokia says to me to go to the left. I go left, pass under a railway, one mile later --- the end of the world ...And my Nokia tells me that after 200 meters I take the ferry
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Ferry turns out to be an alpine train, which would take me from Bad to Obervelach for 15 euros ... No, I will not! I would like to go, but somehow didn’t want to go, and also I have to pay to cross the road to Gross. And the scenario looked like you’re somewhere where there is no further. All around just hills and the railroad that gets lost in the gap somewhere between, with a majestic Austro-Hungarian arc on which it says: FRANCISCO JOSEPH I. IMP.MCMIX.
I studied the maps and concluded: I will go back to Zell am See, then to Gross, first I have to sleep (I saw some camp only 10 miles before) There where I turned my bike around where a couple of village houses and outside on the benches - gypsies . TTL end of the world! Going back, passing high above Bad Geisten; the view is wonderful, and the city and its buildings are beautiful! Turning up the hill because I'd rather be camping in the wild, also it’s cheaper. I ride and see a house, and then nothing, then again another house with the estate, etc. This is the formula of most of Austria, wherever there are hills .. And then I follow a branch road, which should end up somewhere, so if that end is a forest I’ll camp there. The road ends, but with a house; crap, and just as I wanted to turn around a old lady opened the fence for me, and I try to let her know I don’t want to enter, and then the dog that was next to her comes out, I pet him and a thought apears in my head- to ask for sleep, but automatically I start turning around and see a beautiful waterfall on the left side. So, they have a house where the road ends, then a small bridge before entering the garden, and the creek forms a waterfall. A beautiful isolated paradise. I am on a picometer to ask them. And the lady and dog were so dear, and then the waterfall ...But I go. And now, already late and I am telling myself, come on, that camp is close and on my return I miss the camp and start being ttl mad at myself and because darkness is falling and then, a drizzle...
I move in the direction of Zell and arrive in Taxenbach; I laugh at the name and want to pour some fuel, and the station... Does not work! I say to myself I'll sleep in Taxen because I have no other options. Am little nervous because it seems to me that it’s the only city on the fast road and there is nothing around, and in a Hof or hotel I just will not sleep! I take a better look at the map and find a road near the church, which takes up far into the hills. Excellent, near the church I already passed, I know that road! Going back and moving up. The same formula; steep climb, a farm, then nothing, then someones possession and fields where cows graze; I see something on the side, a way down the right and hidden by bushes and trees;)
I didn’t stop but I gave up when I had made 108 km on the reserve and when I entered a forest through a gate with loads of cattle dung [shit]. Back to the first potential position, proved to be ideal. Setup of the tent in the dark, eating cookies, and sleep. Out!
The first route is till the end of the world, and the second one, long and full of all things; ski resorts where I was in January this year, and other countries, the route to the top of the world; but about I still have to tell you a lot.

Ipak Grossglockner

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Totalni change of plan! Mislio sam u Wels i Linz; i onda ipak skontao da mi to moze biti na povratku... Na povratku s cega? Sa Grossglocknera!!! A na kraju se ispostavilo da je i na povratku iz druge drzave ;)
No, krenimo redom: dakle Grossglockner... Zelja svih "motoraša" pa tako i moja; proci Grossglockner hohealpen strass-om, pa sam odlucio da idem u unutrasnjnost Austrije... Sad znam: isplatilo se, big time! A i zato jer sam si mislio; sad je najbolja prilika (ovim se putem zahvaljujem mooveru s motori.hr foruma na podsjetniku i prosvijetljenju - jer gotovo sam vec zaboravio na tu ideju i zelju) Eh, sad imam naljepnicu koju sam vidio na jednom ZR-u istom kao moj samo bordo crvenom, prvog maja ove godine u Porecu... Sad ce takova naljepnica zauzeti isto mjesto na mom ZR-u :D
Dakle, pozdravih se s frendicom u Attnangu i krenuh prema Grossu... Putem dobivam ideje poput: otici u Schladming i glumiti Luku i Bornu (kao nije mi daleko; ali ipak se odlucujem na direkt varijantu) Navigator me vodi lokalnim cestama (iskljucene su mu sve opcije autoputeva ili placenih cesata osim ferry opcije. Zato me jednom htio poslati brodekom preko Dunava :) ali nisam mu dao! Stizem u Bad Geisten, kraj je predivan. Stajem kod nekih putokaza i desno je neka alpska cesta za koju se placa cestarina a lijevo mi nokia kaze da idem. Krenem ja lijevo, prodem ispod pruge, jedan kilometar dalje --- kraj svijeta... I nokia moja kaze mi da nakon 200 metara uzmem trajekt.
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Trajekt ispada da je kroz-alpski vlak, koj bi me odveo od Bada do Obervelacha-za 15 evra... Reko necu! A i isao bi; al mi nekak nije bilo bas da idem; a i cestu preko Grossa moram platit. A scenarij je sve kao da si negdje gdje nema dalje. Sve uokolo brda, i ta pruga koja se gubi u procijepu negdje izmedu; s jednim velebnim lukom iz doba austrougarske, na kojem pise: FRANCISCO JOSEPHO I.IMP. MCMIX.
Proucio sam karte i zakljucujem: ici cu natrag, prema Zell am Seeu pa onda na Gross; prvo moram spavati (vidio sam neki kamp 10ak km prije) Tamo di sam se okrenuo neko naselje od par kuca, a vani po klupama sjede--cigani. Ttl kraj svijeta!
Vracam se; prolazim visoko iznad Bad Geistena; pogled je predivan, a i grad i njegove gradevine su lepe! Okrecem gore u brdo jer radije bi ja kampirao na divlje; tako je i jeftinije. Vozim se po toj cestici uz brijeg i nailazim na kucu, pa nista pa drugu kucu s imanjem itd. I to je spranca u vecini Austrije; gdje god je brdovito.. I sad pratim ja ogranak ceste koji bi trebao negdje zavrsiti, pa ako je kakav sumarak da se ukampiram tamo. Cesta zavrsava, ali s kucom; sranje [dreck]
i ja se idem okrenuti, i taman tada baba je kod ograde i otvara mi; a ja masem da ne ulazim i onda pas koji je bio kraj nje izlazi i dolazi do mene; ja ga podragam i stvori mi se misao u glavi da pitam za spavanje; ali kao automatizmom; krecem se dalje okretati i uocim predivan slap s lijeve strane. Dakle; ekipa ima kucu tamo di zavrsava cesta, pa mali mostic prije ulaska u dvoriste, a potok koji premoscuje nastaje iz tog slapa. Dakle, predivni izolirani mali raj. I ja na pikometar da ih pitam. A i bačica i pes su bili tak dragi; i onda jos taj slap... I ipak odem. I sad vec je kasno i govorim si, ajde taj kamp je blizu, da jos za dana dignem sator; i vracajuci se tako fulam ja taj kamp i ttl ljut na sebe kad sam skobto da sam kamp profulo i to sto je vec mrak pao, i onda jos neka kisica; da ne bude trazenje spavanja kao proslu noc...
Krenrm ipak u smjeru Zella i stizem u Taxenbach; smijem se imenu i ocem tociti jer sam low s gorivom; i benzinska... Ne radi! I kazem ja dpavat cu u Taxenu, jer nemre drugacije. Ali malo zivcan jer mi se cini da je to samo grad na toj brzoj cesti i da nema nicega uokolo, a u Hof ili hotel necem! Ipak proucim kartografiju i skontam na velikom planu grada cestu kod crkve koja vodi gore daleko u brda. Odlicno, kraj crkve sam vec prosao; znam koja je to cesta! Vracam se i krecem gore. Ista spranca; strmo se penjem, a ono farma pa nista, pa posjed pa njive di se krave pasu; skuzim nesto sa strane, kao poljski put dolje desno i jos zakriven grmljem i drvecem ;) ipak idem dalje i odustajem kad sam imao 108km napravljenih na rezervi i kad sam usao u sumu kroz neka vrata i sa brdo stocnog dubreta [dreck] na makadamskoj cesti. Povratak na prvu potencijalnu poziciju; pokazala se idealnom. Slaganje satora po mraku, jedenje kekasa, spavanje. Out!
Prva ruta je do kraja svijeta; a ova druga; dugacka i puna svega; skijalista di sam bio u 1.mj ove godine; pa i druge drzave; je ruta do vrha svijeta; a o njoj vam jos moram ispricati.

Grossglockner

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to je za sada to! Pozdrav iz Zell am Seea. (s mekdonaldovog parkinga ;)

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