Having found the list
of suppliers from the internet; no easy feat since the Go-box admin site is all
in German, I hit it lucky with the pdf of suppliers and found a garage in the
nearest town in Austria to us, before Salzburg.
The garage simply had
an automatic machine which dispenses the go box complete with your contract. It
took me a couple of attempts after filling in the on-screen forms with personal
details and vehicle details, since the machine would not accept my debit card.
Fortunately I had €100 in notes and fed these in, and after printing several
pages of contract info to check, and instructions on fitting and interpreting the
various bleeps and tones and light flashes which all signify something, the
machine delivered my go-box. I almost danced with joy….!
After that we went to
the lovely motorcycle shop in Hallein, also sort of on the route to Salzburg,
where I had my Guzzi fixed when it sprung an oil leak. First we tried on some summer open helmets...
We spent a good hour
or so in the motorcycle clothing department upstairs from the bikes, and chose
some rain-suits, and then a proper female motorcycle jacket for Carol, in a breathable
and waterproof material with armour on the shoulders and elbows, and some new
summer gloves for me, with Kevlar armour on the knuckles. We also got some lightweight
open face helmets which are nicer in the heat of summer, and managed to
negotiate a 10% discount on the list prices.
Loading up was a little bit of a
challenge, but with one small helmet in the tailbag and one fastened on top, we
were fine for the journey home across the hills back into Germany. The bike panniers just swallow the stuff up.
In the evening we took
in the public music in the town square over a couple of beers which finished
the day off well. It was good old German squeeze box and oompah-pah.
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