Adriatic MotoTours?

[pmdave]

Anyone have experience with Adriatic MotoTours, based in Slovenia? The principals are Matej and Marina Malovrh.

1. Is the eastern Adriatic area an interesting place to travel?

2. Is Adriatic MotoTours honest and reliable?

pmdave

[Crow18]

No direct experience, but what I've heard is that the scenery is second to none, and the roads are nicely twisty but poorly maintained. I have an old friend who runs a spa on Hvar in the summers, if you are into more earthy-crunchy yoga-ey mysticism than those of us in the Pacific Northwest encounter on a regular basis. Which I doubt.

I seem to recall AMT was featured in an issue of the Owner News a while back. Lemme check... Yup. February '07, page 68.

[pmdave]

Thanks, Crow.

I'll check out the ON ref.

Although Adriatic mentions that the roads are in excellent condition, I suspect that it's a matter of perspective. Compared to bomb craters, a few potholes might seem like nothing to talk about.

pmdave

[ROLLIFAHRER]

I planned to rent a bike from Matej and have him set up a custom self-guided tour. He speaks perfect English and bent over backward to help me out. As it trned out, I couldn't do the tour, but was toally impressed with AMT.

As far as the Adriatic--you can't go wrong. I have lived in Germany and traveled through Europe and I feel Slovenia is the ideal destination for a first trip. There is much to see and do in the capital, Ljubljana. Most everyone speaks English. The country is experiencing a lot of upgrading to meet EU standards. They were still on their old currency in '07, but Euros were accepted everywhere. Menus are in 3 or 4 languages including English. It's close to the Dalamtion Coast of Croatia, the Alps in Austria, and you can take a ferry across to Italy. It seems every restaurant is owned by a very young person, often a woman. The bar district in "The Center" is very cool. A river runs through town and there is a farmers market every day.

The history and architecture pretty much covers all of European history. Due to its remote loaction, it didn't get flattened in any wars, so you can dine in Roman era barrel vault cellars, visit churches from most every period, bridges, monuments, you name it.

Anyway, Matej will take good care of you,