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CZ16 - Route to Czech

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I have had a look in a bit more depth now that we have booked hotels on the way out to Brno. To cut down the second and third days a little so that we arrive at a decent time in Czech on the Friday afternoon I built in the overnight in Gent.   Day 1 - I can easily have the Thursday off to get ready and leave but Neill may be working.  According to Tyre/Google Maps from my house to Gent is around 134 miles.  So I reckon a Shuttle no later than 1800, and earlier if possible, is the way to go. When you add the hour time difference on it starts to look like a very late arrival. Day 2 - this is a longer day,  that Tyre reckons is over 400 miles and around six and a half hours in the saddle. We'll need to look at fuel stops as the Rocket has a range of about 200 miles at 70mph. The third day is a shorter day but as a lot of it is on the Czech motorway system so a bit of an unknown quantity. The D1 was from Prague to Brno was terrible the last ti