Italy & Corfu road trip

My girlfriend and I originally planned to make it all the way down to Athens and across to the other Greek islands but money/time constraints meant that Corfu was as far as we got.

Still, we set off from Antibes in the south of France and took the coast road towards Genova, down to Pisa and all the way down past the bay of Naples. There we spent a day checking out the ruins at Pompeii before blasting eastward in one high-speed afternoon just in time to catch the ferry from Bari across to Corfu.

We had a week there on the beach and by the pool, riding the coast roads and visiting the places of beauty before catching a ferry back to Venice, taking a gondola ride in the morning then nailing it back to home in Antibes.

The best bits: the amazing coastal scenery in Corfu and the twisty Amalfi coast roads in Italy. Seeing sights like the tower of Pisa and Pompeii and just having 2 weeks with nothing to think about but where to ride to next. Trying to keep up with a Ninja-riding lunatic on the coast highway between Monaco and Genova.

The worst bits: the cheap (25 euros) tankbag I bought for the trip – one of the magnets was broken and jagged, so it wore through the material and scratched my tank up. The chain also gave up halfway so we had a stressful morning in Sorrento waiting for a mechanic to get a new one and get it fitted before we had to catch a ferry in Bari that afternoon.