The Dolomites and more

Joybringer said:

Needless to say, the actual route planning is taking a little longer than planned, but I visited that wonderful maps emporium, Stanfords, on Friday, and now have an armful of Michelin paper maps to supplement my Basecamp/Mapsource efforts. I intend to use a mixture of a) my own routes from previous journeys, b) plagiarised routes from others here, c) research, and d) pot luck I will post route files/jpgs here as and when.

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Wapping said:

Good jaunt




The Mapsman fellow has a good selection: http://www.mapsman.com/ and is very helpful, too.

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JON12A said:

Due to my snoring at a level that can shake a room I request a single room unless a fellow snorer wishes to compete in same room for the grand decibel world series. This noise level is only made worse by alcohol so good job this is a tee total group:.
John

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neil 23 said:

Looks like a great trip Mark, but planning on going to Norway next year, fancy a detour ?

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wessie said:

Hypothetically, I'm happy to share a room with some random person off the internet that I've never met - I've done similar before and gone on a few cheap deals with MCi making up the numbers with a Billy No Mates.

There are a couple of things any potential room sharer would have to bear in mind. I snore like a bastard and I'm a poof. So, you'd need to match me up with a deaf person who has no insecurities about their sexuality. Or I'll take a single room.

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Joybringer said:

Fantastic response, thanks!

...and no-one spotted my earlier faux pas, a bastardisation of Belzano and Bormio - Bolmio, that well-known Dolomites town...

I meant Bolzano, but got a bit excited...

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JON12A said:

This noise level is only made worse by alcohol so good job this is a tee total group:.
John

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wessie said:

Hypothetically, I'm happy to share a room with some random person off the internet that I've never met - I've done similar before and gone on a few cheap deals with MCi making up the numbers with a Billy No Mates.

There are a couple of things any potential room sharer would have to bear in mind. I snore like a bastard and I'm a poof. So, you'd need to match me up with a deaf person who has no insecurities about their sexuality. Or I'll take a single room.

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JohnnyBoxer said:

Day 1

May I suggest somewhere in the Black Forest, near Strasbourg direction about 350 from Calais or Zeebrugge and thus the need to avoid Switzerland (tolls, expensive food etc)

Day 2 - then cut down from the Black Forest, nice roads in the Ravensburg direction then down skirting Bregenz and down a fairly scenic Austrian m/way to Innsbruck and then over the Brenner, taken the old road from the summit and drop into the Dolomites near Bressanone - easili done 9.30-5pm and about 350 miles

Easiest way to get down or back

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JohnnyBoxer said:

Day 1

May I suggest somewhere in the Black Forest, near Strasbourg direction about 350 from Calais or Zeebrugge and thus the need to avoid Switzerland (tolls, expensive food etc)

Day 2 - then cut down from the Black Forest, nice roads in the Ravensburg direction then down skirting Bregenz and down a fairly scenic Austrian m/way to Innsbruck and then over the Brenner, taken the old road from the summit and drop into the Dolomites near Bressanone - easili done 9.30-5pm and about 350 miles

Easiest way to get down or back

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JohnnyBoxer said:

Day 1

May I suggest somewhere in the Black Forest, near Strasbourg direction ( I have 2 hotel suggestions) about 350miles from Calais or Zeebrugge and thus the need to avoid Switzerland (tolls, expensive food etc)

Day 2 - then cut down from the Black Forest, nice roads in the Ravensburg direction then down skirting Bregenz and down a fairly scenic Austrian m/way to Innsbruck and then over the Brenner, taking the old road from the summit and drop into the Dolomites near Bressanone - easiliy done 9.30-5pm and about 350 miles

Easiest way to get down or back in just 2 days

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wessie said:

This is the route I would take as I haven't done the Brenner yet. The Timmelsjoch was too tempting on the 2 occasions I was travelling that direction.

My suggestion would be for everyone to rendezvous at the Rhine crossing point hotel near Strasbourg or wherever, so that people can take different ferry options. As I am 260 miles from Dover or 160 miles from Pompey my preferred option would be overnight from Portsmouth to Le Havre (£60 credit note in my account due to a cancellation last year) or maybe a Chunnel the night before and bomb down to the Laon Premiere Classe. The latter would cost me an extra day in leave but would facilitate some time in the lumpy bits south of Metz before heading to the Rhine.

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JON12A said:

What about planning a couple of days at the BMW gig at Garmich usually first weekend in July . Maybe Friday and Saturday then continue with the trip ?. Just a thought.
John.

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JON12A said:

What about planning a couple of days at the BMW gig at Garmich usually first weekend in July . Maybe Friday and Saturday then continue with the trip ?. Just a thought.
John.

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Joybringer said:

Off to the NEC tomorrow, but I'm hoping to get some routes - or at least descriptions of said routes - up here at some point on Sunday

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