{"id":108,"date":"2017-04-10T21:08:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T19:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/?p=108"},"modified":"2018-06-12T23:09:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T21:09:31","slug":"scotland-2018-final-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/blog\/2017\/04\/10\/scotland-2018-final-teaser\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland 2018 &#8211; Final Teaser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time to lift the curtain and show what I&#8217;ve been up to these last few days. Obviously the night picture was at Travem\u00fcnde harbor from aboard a ferry. I was hoping to catch some nice sunshine on the Baltic sea the next day, but this is what I got for my troubles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/?attachment_id=110\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-110 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ferry_fog-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ferry_fog-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ferry_fog-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ferry_fog-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ferry_fog-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ferry_fog.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, no boat trip lasts forever, so early Sunday morning after an exceptionally boring stay on a Finnlines ferry, where the biggest distraction is the visit to the on-board Sauna, I finally arrived in Vuosaari, Helsinki.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O67LpvS93T4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oh right, the reason for taking the ferry. Well, here it is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/en\/scotland-2018-final-teaser\/bmw_wohoo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-111\" src=\"http:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bmw_wohoo-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bmw_wohoo-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bmw_wohoo-768x458.jpg 768w, https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bmw_wohoo-1024x611.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bmw_wohoo-800x477.jpg 800w, https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bmw_wohoo.jpg 1812w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BMW R 1200 GS, 03\/2011, 14000 km and now my new pride.<\/p>\n<p>When I started thinking about the trip to Scotland I also wondered if I would be comfortable doing the 3000+ kilometers going to and around the Highlands and islands with my Drifter. And well, what can I say, I always fancied a nice and big Enduro, so the &#8220;Cow&#8221; was the only possible choice, really. \ud83d\ude42 Oh my, and what a ride it is.\u00a0I was afraid that the height and the different sitting position would make it uncomfortable, but on the contrary. I bought the bike near Augsburg in Germany and had to go all the way to Travem\u00fcnde in one day, and it was easy going. With my red rocket I would have been sore and bone tired afterwards, nothing whatsoever with the Bavarian bomber.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the means of travel is settled the hard part starts, planning the waypoints, sights and night stops, coordinate the ferries and on and on. Fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to lift the curtain and show what I&#8217;ve been up to these last few days. Obviously the night picture was at Travem\u00fcnde harbor from aboard a ferry. I was hoping to catch some nice sunshine on the Baltic sea the next day, but this is what I got for my troubles: Well, no boat trip lasts forever, so early<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/blog\/2017\/04\/10\/scotland-2018-final-teaser\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,32],"tags":[19,68,15,17],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-travel","tag-19","tag-bmw","tag-motorcycle","tag-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holtmanns.eu\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}