2026 Stockholm back to Milan, Wed September 16, 2026

Hotel Veduta dell'Adamello → Milan Mototouring → La Perla Rooms Soronno

WedHotel Veduta → Milan Mototouring

Two Parts:

  1. avoiding highways Hotel Veduta dell'Adamello to Villa d'Alme near Bergamo (3h45m 151km)
  2. on highway Paladina near Bergamo to Mototouring (32m 47km) saves about 30 minutes if I'm running late

Transport from Mototouring to La Perla Rooms Soronno

walk to the Via Del Ricordo Via P.Te Nuovo bus-stop, get bus 53 to P.Le Udine Via Carnia

take the M2 towards Abbiategrasso, 10 stops to Cadorna FN (Lambrate, Piola, Loreto, ..., Moscova, Lanza, Cadorna)

take the RE7 2169 Como Lago train 3 stops to Soronno (Domodossola, Milano Bosiva Politecnico, Saronno)

Walk 800m to La Perla, Via Guglielmo Marconi, 27, 21047 Saronno VA

Next morning, to MXP:

Walk 800m back to the Saronno station

Take the RE54 327 train 2 stops to Busto Arsizio, MXP T1 (Terminal 1)

How it all turned out

DayStartEnd km my time GoogleTime %over
1 Stockholm Naantali, Finland 184 km 6h19m 4h13m +50% ( over) ferries and wasting time on purpose
2 Naantali Helsinki, Finland 466 km10h34m 6h09m +72% ( over)
3 Helsinki Haapsula, Estonia 154 km 3h19m 2h05m +59% ( over)
4 Haapsula Võru, Estonia 373 km 8h58m 4h36m +95% ( over) museums
5 Võru Riga, Latvia 316 km 6h27m 4h23m +47% ( over) lots of dirt roads!
6 Riga Vilnius, Lithuania 337 km 5h30m 4h31m +22% ( over)
7 Vilnius Mikolajki, Poland 394 km 9h17m 6h03m +53% ( over)
8 Mikolajki Warsaw, Poland 228 km 4h46m 3h26m +39% ( over) short day
9 Warsaw Kraków, Poland 368 km 10h6m 5h50m +73% ( over) salt mine tour
10 Kraków Luleč, Czechia 393 km11h32m 5h24m +14% ( over) not counting into Brno and back
11 Luleč Salzburg, Austria 475 km 9h41m 6h48m +42% ( over)
12 Salzburg Ljubljana, Slovenia 402 km 9h26m 5h47m +63% ( over) A lot of dirt roads?
13 Ljubljana Chiaulis, Italy 273 km 6h48m 5h57m +14% ( over)
14 Chiaulis Bolzano, Italy 289 km 6h56m 5h59m +16% ( over)
15 Bolzano Coredo, Italy 287 km 8h09m 5h55m +38% ( over)
16 Coredo Temù, Italy 218 km 6h30m 4h36m +41% ( over)
17 Temù Milan, Italy km + % ( over)


Total: 5,357 km over 17 riding days (Expanded from 14 planned, Odometer showed x,xxx km covered).

Averages: 315 km/day 7h45m elapsed time 6hrs google maps time + 17% on moving time +47% including breaks (min +14%, max ~+100%)

Started in Milan at 16,230
Left in Stockholm at 25,500 (9,270 km --- 5,775 miles)
Finished in Milan at 30,965 (5,465 km --- 3,405 miles)
grand total 14,735 km or 9,180 miles ---- that's a lot for the rear tire!