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Tourguide academy - striving for perfection - Modultour 2017

Sunday, April 30, 2017 | Thomas Ritt / Malcolm Brunelli / Peter Kuhn / James Ashton / Marc Adamiak | News / Europe

A week of intensive training just came to an end. Lots of work, lots of fun, lots of rain and lots of interesting experiences - everybody just had a blast. Eight highly trained, ultra-professional tour guides couldn't wait to head out to their assigned tours, but before that everybody had to (and wanted to!) attend a safety course with instructor Tobi. The last highlight in a truly outstanding week. Looking forward to seeing you out on the road!

Eine Woche intensives Training hat soeben geendet. Viel Arbeit, viel Spaß, viel Regen und viele interessante Erfahrungen - hier kamen alle auf ihre Kosten. Acht erstklassig ausgebildete, hochprofessionelle Tourguides konnten es schon nicht mehr erwarten, endlich auf ihre ersten Touren zu gehen, doch davor mussten (und wollten!) noch alle ein Fahrsicherheitstraining mit Instruktor Tobi absolvieren. Der letzte Höhepunkt einer ganz besonderen Woche. Bis bald, wir sehen uns auf der Straße!

 

Day 5

Tag 5

Tobi from Australia looking a little nervous about hitting the European roads. No kangaroos here mate!

Tobi aus Australien sieht etwas nervös aus, beim Gedanken daran, auf Europas Strassen zu fahren. Kängurus: Fehlanzeige!

The entire group, ready to ride!

Die ganze Truppe ist abfahrbereit...

A great picnic spot near Truden, unfortunately the weather wasn't up to the standard of the location

Toller Fotostop nahe Truden; leider entsprach das Wetter nicht ganz dem Standard für diese Gegend

Malcom preparing for the afternoon's weather, with his personal grid-guy; Tom!

Malcolm bereitet sich auf das Wetter am Nachmittag vor; mit seinem persönlichen Grig-guy: Tom!

Alberto from Brazil super exicted about his Multistrada!

Alberto aus Brasilien ist super begeistert von seiner Multistrada!

Andi from Innsbruck - getting motivated for tonight's breifing. We are sure it's going to be awesome!

Andi aus Innsbruck - holt sich Motivation fürs Briefing heute Abend. Wir sind sicher, das wird grossartig!

Markus, looking super satisfied after his delicous Schnitzel - you can't beat the warm local meat

Auch Markus sieht super zufrieden aus - nach seinem köstlichen Schnitzel; warme Lökale Spezialitäten sind eben unschlagbar

Stephan, Alberto, Tobi & Tom super happy about the great free riding they had in the afternoon

Stephan, Alberto, Tobi und Tom: restlos begeistert nach einem genialen "freien Fahren" am Nachmittag

The boys on the Beamers! Tobi on his GS and Tom on the RT - these bikes were built for adventure!

Die Jungs auf ihren BMWs. Tobi auf seiner GS und Tom auf der RT - diese Bikes wurden fürs Abenteuer gebaut!

Day 4 - wet on the outside but warm on the inside

Tag 4 - durchnässt aber zufrieden

 

Unfortunately the weather wasn't on our side, but at least the team had big smiles at Lake Molveno! It's currently being drained for maintainance to the hydro-electricity plant, which made it interesting none the less!

 

Leider war das Wetter nicht auf unserer Seite, aber wenigstens hatte das Team ein breites Grinsen im Gesicht am Molveno-See! Im Moment ist dieser entwässert, um Wartungsarbeiten am Wasserkrafterk durchführen zu können. Das hat ihn aber nicht weniger interessant gemacht!

One of the Edelweiss beauties - looking good in a rare moment without rain!

Eine der Edelweiss-Schönheiten - schön anzuschauen in einem der wenigen regenfreien Momente!

James, literally "hanging out" with the Cubans Javier and Anivar at the San Romedio monastary.

James "hängt" sprichwörtlich mit den Kubanern Javier und Anivar im Kloster San Romedio ab.

The man himself - San Romedio - with his bear

San Romedio höchstpersönlich - mit seinem Bären

We made it to Gampen pass - with rain and 3 degrees

Wir haben es auf den Gampenpass geschafft - bei Regen und 3 Grad

Our most wisest guest, Markus from the USA getting the special treatment for his 60th birthday. What a way to celebrate such a fantastic milestone!

Unser weisester Gast Markus aus den USA bekommt eine Spezialbehandlung zu seinem 60. Geburtstag. Welch eine Art, solch einen fantastischen Meilenstein zu feiern!

It was delicious!
Javier and Anavar gave us a fantastic briefing both in English and Spanish about the next day's ride. So great to see the skill and effort of the Cubans to make this such a fantastic tour! Muchas gracias guys!
The group is enjoying the view in "Grumes" over the cembra valley

Day 3 - James and Marc - from Levico Therme to Bolzano

The next riding day started with a little rain but a very comfortable breakfast

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Der nächste Fahrtag startete leider mit Regen aber dafür gab es ein gemütliches Frühstück

A nice breakfast in togetherness
The Daily Briefing
The Briefer James
The birthday kid Mr. Hellrigl coming for his birthday ride
Mr. Wachter impatient to ride
First time rain gear for our cuban rider Javi
and gooooooooooo Alberto

Day 2 - Peter and Tom - from Bolzano to Levico Therme

Our first riding day in Italy started out of Bolzano and directly in to the lower part of the Dolomites. Already the first roads into this spectacular Mountains have been mind blowing and great fun

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Unser erster Fahrtag in Italien started in Bozen und führt uns direkt in den niedrigeren Teil der Dolomiten. Schon die ersten Straßen und Kurven in diesem spektakulären Gebirge waren unglaublich und bereiteten uns eine Menge Spaß

DAY 2
Ready to go!!! The group guided by Peter started from Hotel Scala in Bolzano!!!
James was as always really happy to ride!!!

A few sweepers and hair pins later we already reached our first fotostop with the Rosengartengroupe and the instructors started a conspiracy against the candidate.

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Ein paar Kurven und Kehren später erreichten wir auch schon unseren ersten Fotostop mit der Rosengartengruppe und die Ausbilder starteten eine Verschwörung gegen den Prüfling.

Conspiracy against the active Tourguide
First Picurestop with the beautiful Rosengartengroupclouds in the back

On the next section the Torguide had to handle some violations against the groupriding rules and than we arrived at our first highlight of the day a impressive chiche from the 15th century with his famous frescoes inside.

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Während dem nächsten Fahrabschnitt musste sich der Tourguide um einige Verstöße gegen die Gruppenfahrregeln kümmern bevor wir unsere erstes Highlight erreichten, die eindrucksvolle St. Helena Kirche mit ihren berühmten Fresken im Inneren.

The highlight of the noon St. Helenas chirch from the 15th century
The nice snack station in the back of the chirch
Tom loved it

Than suddenly the GPS break down but nevertheless we had a great ride to our picknick place.

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Dann plötzlich fiel das Navi aus, doch wir hatten trotzdem eine großartige Fahrt zu unserem Picknickplatz.

Malcolm and Andi, our van drivers, prepared a very tasty picnic in Trodena!!!
Dr. Stephan Kaltschmid
And everybody is happy!!!
Tom, our guide for the afternoon, briefed us really well about our riding day from Bolzano to Levico Terme and about the places we visited!!!

The group with the nice picknick place
Beautiful view of the "Val di Cembra"
Dr. Stephan Kaltschmidt and Mark enjoy the view from the panoramic terrace.
Panoramic view of the cembra valley.
Peter and Dr Stephan Kaltscmidt doing a photo shooting at the lakeside.
Lake Serraia in Baselga di Piné.
At Hotel Al Sorriso in Levico Terme, the guides driving the van, surprised the group with a boot beer =)

Day 1 - Transport and decorating the hotel

Lesson 1: loading bikes
On the road to Bolzano
Getting them off the trailer is easier than getting them on
The crew is prepping up the "Beach Flag Bike" in front of the tour start hotel in beautiful Bolzano

Day 0 - Luckily back in Mieming

The center of motocycle universe

All of the new Tourguides and also a few older ones meet in Mieming to start the fabulous Edelweiss Modultour to bring our skills to the top

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Alle neuen Tourguiedes und auch ein paar von den Älteren treffen sich in Mieming zum Start der fabelhaften Edelweiss Modultour um unsere Fähigkeiten an das höchste Level zu bringen

The annual training tour is just about to start. A team of 8 highly motivated rookie tour guides will be practising the chores of being a professional Edelweiss guide. Stay tuned!

Die alljährliche Modultour hat soeben begonnen. Acht hochmotivierte Neu-Tourguides werden eine Woche lang trainieren und lernen, was es heißt, ein professioneller Edelweiss-Guide zu sein. Bleib dran!

 

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Malcolm Brunelli
Saturday, April 29, 2017 at 18:26

Guys,
it has been a great experience in which we have learned a lot!!!
Thank you all and see you on tour!!!


p.s. always remember...Green for go! BAAAAM =)
Tom
Saturday, April 29, 2017 at 08:05

What a blast this tour was! The input of information and feedback is phenomenal.
I'm really looking forward to meet you guys again on a tour! Thanks to all for making this week so special.
Thumbs up!!!!
It truely is the best ride there is!
Björn
Friday, April 28, 2017 at 18:44

Hey Alberto nice to see you again! :-P
Aigars
Friday, April 28, 2017 at 07:10

Great to see Markus on the ride again! And happy anniversary Long life ride!
Björn
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 09:37

Looks like you are having a great time! I hope your "customers" aren't too hard on you
Have fun!
Claudia
Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 15:37

Hello everybody,
nice to see you... remembers me on my Moduletour
You will be surprised, what can happen on a tour.... have fun and a good time
Kind regards
Claudia
Eva Köfler
Monday, April 24, 2017 at 23:51

Hey guys.

Have fun and a good week

@peter: where do you got those stylish crocs from

Lg eva
Peter Kuhn
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 14:45

From the best Hotel arround Mieming were else?

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