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Easter ride to Camargues and Provence

These pictures are from our trip to Camargue and West-Provence (village is Cornillon-Confoux):

Norge goes down

Have you ever wondered what happens to all that plastic fairing stuff when you drop the Norge? Well, I had to rode to west, all the way to Camargue to find out that Norge survives quite well.

After an "interesting" stop in a bar which would give inspiration to Stephen King's next bestseller, we were about to continue our over-night road trip, when the sky fell and knocked me and Norge down. A local peasant had reversed his white van from a parking lot, hitting Norge's top box from rear right and pushing the bike to the left. It was a total surprise to me, I couldn't even hear his approach beforehands. Only thought that flashed in my brains was "WTF, need to get away from the falling bike". Luckily missus was not yet mounted on the bike.

I guess we were lucky, no real harm for me and even Norge survived pretty well, just some scratches. An inspector from insurance company will check the damages next Wednesday, let's see then.