November 9^th 2006

It’s all about

Motorbike touring in the European Alps,

recommendation for the best motorbike hotel

and excellent local cuisine

Dear motorbike touring friend,

what you find here is the translation in process of the German domain Alpentourer.de from Dietrich and Heidi Pals, who travel through the European Alps since over 25 years. Born near the Lake of Constance, the triangle between Germany, Austria and Switzerland, we document our travel experience now since several years on the internet to avoid the classical tourist trap for foreign travellers. If you ask people outside Germany what they know about the Eropean Alps regions, they normally tell you - Matterhorn, Top of Europe, Sankt Moritz and maybe Davos. But that’s not the European Alps.

The translation status as per today is the following:

• Index, about us, home: Done
• Apine passes overview: Done
• tyrol: Done
• sarn-valley: in process
• Photo Gallery: will always be in German just use Google translate
• Weather: Done
• Weblinks: Done
• Accessories: Done
• Roadbooks: Done
• Unique places: Done
• Travelogues: in process

The European Alps are hostels on 5.900ft. which you can reach by motorbike on outstanding roads, where you meet the local Swiss farmer in the evening at a beer, where you can look into a real alpine dairy without a tourist group and eat the local specialities at normal rates. The European Alps have places you never have dreamed about and we would like to explore this for you, especially when you travel on a motorbike.

Since we received more and more E-Mails from all over the world asking us, why we have deleted the former English pages, we are now again in process to translate the whole internet site, which will take some time for sure. We had to delete the English portion, because of a traffic limit of our former provider and the traffic from outside Europe had just exploded.

We have fixed this issue now and will translate over the time all relevant important information on our website into English language. Nebertheless, all guesthouses and hostels we reference do speak English and there is no language barrier if you go there. They hosted already guests from the UK, Scottland the USA, Scandianvia and Japan.

If you would like to have more background information and where to stay in the Alps, when riding a bike, getting a rental motorbike or you would like to have a complete trip organized, just contact us. We have connections to the local motorbike hotel ring, which is a group of four cosy hostels/hotels in the Alps who will organize that for you. That does include baggage transport if you plan round trips. And guess - the organization of that complete tour is free of charge as long as you stay within these hostels/hotels. All hosts drive motorbike themselves and will be happy to take you on tour.

So now enjoy our internet documentation, pass by frequently and look for updates and enjoy motorbike travel in the European Alps region.

Dietrich & Heidi Pals

D-41812 Erkelenz-Holzweiler

Germany

Dietrich Pals   Heidi Pals