5-week, 8000km road trip to Crete and back

Prologue This is a write-up with some pictures of our holiday tour to Crete in summer 2025. My gf, let's call her J., got her license last year, and two days later we departed for a tour of the Alps. We ended up riding about 4000km through Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and France. Gorgeous, but also well-traveled and well-known territory. For this year we wanted to do something a bit more…