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This weekend the activities around the Easter celebration started in Austria. Easter markets are held almost in every town. Therefore we took our Bonnie's and started a little tour to reach one of those markets in Forchtenstein.
The market was situated in most parts of the Forchtenstein Castle.
Besides all the handicrafts made of various materials, there was also an interesting culinary offer.

I tasted a bun filled with meat loaf from game meat.









The crocodile hanging in the entrance hall has protected the castle from enemy attacks since 1706. It has obviously been useful, because the castle could never be taken.











Happy Easter to everyone!

 

Fantastic story about he crocodile @Markus . Looks like you had an interesting and enjoyable visit. Lovely pictures as well
And a happy Easter to you.

 

@Markus thank you for the lovely photos - such beautiful scenery and skies. I hope that you and your wife have a lovely Easter.

 

@Mrs Visor: Many thanks to you!
The weekend was marvelous! This week is crazy. Temperatures from -3 to 15 degrees changing every few hours in both directions. Rain, snow, sunshine is permanently changing. By the end of the week it should get better.

 

What wonderful architectural and scenic photos, @Markus! Thanks for taking the time to snap the pics and share them here. I really liked the ones with the Easter bunnies in them, too. A very Happy Easter to you and Mrs. Markus!

 

@Sandi T: Many thanks to you!

 

Spring is finally starting to show here in the desert South-West. Warming up, and the wind is dying down. Looking forward to getting "Lola" out there. I want to convert her taillight to LED before the season starts. I have a bunch of LED 1157's in my lighting drawer in the garage. Just need to find a minute to get to it. Enjoy the season everyone. ...J.D.

 

Helmut is on call for work today, so I went out by myself for a lovely ride - set out early when it was still pretty chilly to try and beat the worst of the holiday traffic and barely saw any for the first hour or two - and then the whole world seemed to come out onto the roads .I had a lovely time - first stop was the Honey Cafe in Bronllys, then the Owl's nest in Llandovery and finally Abergavenny bus station.

I am also exceptionally thankful that I fitted a radiator guard to the Street Triple as I hit a pheasant that suddenly flew out of a hedge when I was going quite fast headed home…I stopped and had to pick a lot of pheasant feathers and general gore out of the guard and mudguard and thankfully the only damage seems to be a very slight crack in some mudguard plastic. The bike then STANK when I was sat in traffic in town and I got a few looks at the petrol station removing more gore from the bike. I wondered why people were looking at me when I went to pay and when I got home noticed my left leg also had a good amount of former - pheasant on it .All in all I feel like I got off very lightly, it was a very big bird!!

 

I thought about Sesame Street when I wrote that .

Heart rate came down pretty quickly, I pretty much got it head - on and lower down on the bike, so it was a big thump, but nothing unbalancing. The guilt is still there - those birds are suicidal .

 

Finally some heat from the Sun, 15°

 

Added SW Motech SysBag 10 to the Speed Twin

 

Yikes! That must have been quite unnerving when you hit that pheasant, @Mrs Visor. And then quite gross when you were cleaning it off your bike and later your leg. I'm glad that your bike wasn't any more damaged than it was and especially that the collision didn't cause something worse. Otherwise it looks like it was a beautiful day for a ride. Nice to see so many bikes out! Thanks for sharing the photos.

 

Need to have a proper clean of the radiator guard today and my trousers are hanging on the line this morning drying having been put straight into the washing machine .

 

Bloody hell, that could have been MUCH more serious, Mrs V. Glad you came out of okay, if a little smelly.

 

I have just spent some time cleaning bits of pheasant off my Striple’s radiator guard with plenty of patience and a soft, short - bristled brush and cooked bits of pheasant off the headers. Had a very through look at the bike and my assessment of one tiny crack yesterday being the only harm done seems to be correct, fingers crossed .

 

Changed the brake fluid and bled the brakes (Speed Triple RS). Checked the bike over as MOT due soon and the horn decided to remain silent. One of 4 things, switch, wiring, relay or horn itself. Turned out to be the horn but managed to fix it by turning the small tone adjuster screw and it came back to life.

 

Went for a lovely ride up to the H cafe near Oxford for breakfast and then to OnyerBike near Bicester for tea and bread and butter pudding. Nice bloke at Onyerbike let me ride his rather smart Monkey bike around the car park, never ridden one in my 62 years and it was really good fun. Saw what appeared to be a little squad of "community speed officers" or some such. Little group of Blakeys if ever I saw one, any sympathy I might have had went once I saw their quasi police jackets and tabards and the officious buzz of excitement a motorcycle instilled in them, but I always stick to 30 in 30 zones.

 

Glad you are ok. Some years ago I hit a deer on a motorway at motorway speed resulting in one dead deer, my pillion wife with a broken ankle and broken toe and a mangled radiator. Miraculously the bike didn't go down.

 

That was some impressive effort keeping upright!!

 

A lot of luck involved methinks