You've got 14 days off, no ties, you've been given £3000 to make a 'greatest motorcycle trip'

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I've also been to Crete twice, last time was in 2001 for the "Rally of Discovery" a drunken off road tour of Crete by motorcycle probably sums it up, first trip was in the early 90s and my first foreign holiday.
Anyway my experience of Crete by motorcycle is that the tarmac roads are really slippery and lethal if it rains, you're better off on the dirt, the national highway is interesting, with it considered normal to drive/ride on the hard shoulder and swerve round slow moving agricultural vehicles and stationary stalls with little old ladies selling fruit, the tour coaches are particularly dangerous.
We also stayed somewhere to the east of Rethymnon in the 90s, this was in August and the temperatures were in the high 30s and low 40s, the "apartment" had no air conditioning, but having been built on an old salt marsh was mosquito ridden, so at night you had the choice of being bitten to pieces or boiling with the windows closed, as you walked into Rethymnon there was rubbish with rats running round on it.

[Trinity765]

I'd pack my boots, gloves and helmet and fly to the Canary Islands - pretty good weather all year being near the equator and one of the sunniest places in the world. I'd stay in a luxury cave with sea views and hire whatever bike I could reach the ground on and ride until I was sick of hairpins. I looked into it a couple of years ago and I seem to remember that there's over 2,000 hairpins on Gran Canaria alone and plenty of ferries between the islands. Sold!

Yup. It's not too bad over here

Really? Living the dream

[Yorick]

I'd pack my boots, gloves and helmet and fly to the Canary Islands - pretty good weather all year being near the equator and one of the sunniest places in the world. I'd stay in a luxury cave with sea views and hire whatever bike I could reach the ground on and ride until I was sick of hairpins. I looked into it a couple of years ago and I seem to remember that there's over 2,000 hairpins on Gran Canaria alone and plenty of ferries between the islands. Sold!

Yup. It's not too bad over here

Really? Living the dream

Retired here 5 years ago

[asmethurst99]

Ferry to Santander and a slow ride home at my own pace (slowly) staying in decent hotels ...

[Bwana]

I'd head fr North Carolina and ride the Cherohala Skyway and the Dragon and have a mooch around that area in general.

Nice area to ride. Not counting the cost to get here, that 3K would go a very long way. I've spent less going cross country and back, east coast to west coast.

[Bwana]

I'd stay in nice hotels. No point otherwise.

I wasn't expecting us all to sleep in tents, that's why i gave us a decent budget

C'mon now. That's part of the fun. Figuring out the bare minimum needed to survive and packing it all on the bike, then pointing it where you want to go. Ride until you find something interesting to see, then back on the bike. Repeat as chance brings opportunity, Keep on in a general direction with no rules or real itinerary. Ride until you're done riding, then setting up camp in the evening after a nice ride, getting the reward meal, rising early, breaking camp, packing the bike and heading off. I like having one or two goals attached to a ride while letting the rest just happen.

[millemille]

.... do a week and try another Greek island what i have never been to before.

Have you been to Zante/Zakynthos?

That's the island that if I won the lottery I'd be buying a big villa and load of supermoto bikes and riding kit and have an open house for anyone who wants to come over and play...

[Couchy]

I’d do as much of the TET as possible on the 250

[Whysub]

Corsica was great-did two trips there with the VD supermoto group. I thought riding in the north was far more interesting than the south.

Also Albania again, as I loved the country and the Albanians. Forget all the bollocks about criminal gangs, tourists are very safe. Stunning scenery in the north in Theth, but the SH21 road that goes to the village requires hiring a 4x4 taxi as it's all but impassable on two wheels, as it's been churned up by the wankers running the 4x4 Adventure drives.

The ferry on the river from Koman is a great trip, but the roads at either end are gravel for some distance.

I spent a week riding there, but would like longer.

[cheb]

A slow thrash down to Portimao, do a track day or two, bit of socialising, and then back home.

Maybe next year.