There are many ways to travel about Europe. If it's your interest to find the best way to do it then this article is not for you.
When you are covering a significant distance, you will probably want a fuel gauge that works. The one on the scooter did not.
When your fuel gauge does not work, you will probably want an odometer so you will know how far you have gone since you last got fuel. The odometer did not work either.
What remains is becoming a human calculator. Open with where you started and then try to determine where you are. Compute how many kilometers are between the start point and your current location and divide by the number of kilometers the vehicle goes per litre, assuming you have any idea what that figure might be. This could work well if you have a GPS but there was a problem. I didn't have one.
So what really remains is driving for an hour and a half as that would be about ninety kilometers and I knew the scooter needed to be filled at about one hundred and twenty kilometers so this would give me a thirty kilometer safety margin. But there's a problem with this approach also. It only works if you have a watch and, well, I didn't have one of those either. There was another way to determine the time ... stop in a petrol station.
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