A DAY IN THE ALPS - SWITZERLAND // KTM 1290 Super Adventure S

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This was our first day of our Switzerland/France Tour in 2019. Most of our riding was in France but we had to get through Switzerland to get there and we made sure to ride some of the most scenic passes in the Swiss Alps.
We're going to Italy today, through all of Switzerland.
And it's going to stay like this. Sunny, blue skies and hopefully dry.
So we're on the first few kilometers heading through all of Switzerland, getting into Italy.
Right after the Swiss border, where we have a hotel.
So we're looking at almost 500 kilometers today of riding.
It's going to be a long day.
And of course we've got to mind the speed limit, since we're in Switzerland.
It's really expensive to get fined here for speeding.
So we're going to keep it exactly to the speed limit, as I always do in Switzerland.
We're at the top of Clausen Pass, the first pass of the day.
And it really pays to get up a bit early in the morning, because it's around 10 o'clock in the morning.
And it's still beautiful up here.
Not that it isn't beautiful during the day, but the morning is special.
So this is the first of many to come.
About 30-40 kilometers into our day.
So there's another 450 to go.
We've just arrived at St. Gotthard's Pass.
We're still in Switzerland.
We did a nice loop, covering three major passes.
Now we're off to Newfoundland Pass, where we'll have our late lunch.
So we just stopped at this little cafe here to get a little sweet snack,
because we couldn't take our lunch break at the Newfoundland Pass,
which was a bit of a surprise.
The pass was actually blocked, but we made it through the barrier.
It was blocked because of a landslide.
And we were just trying our luck to see if we could actually cross to the other side,
because not being able to cross the pass would have meant to go all the way back and around.
We would have lost probably an hour and a half, maybe even two hours.
Check this out.
Interesting building.
Woohoo!
So we made it to our final destination for the day.
We're in Italy, just behind the Swiss border.
The last pass that we rode down was the Grand Saint Bernard.
Really beautiful. The sun was already setting.
Perfect views.
So it was a really nice day riding some of the nicest passes in Switzerland.
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This is my dinner.
Excellent.
Steak in Italy.
Steak and beer.
Cheers.
Perfect.
