Supermarkets ok, but for cafes beer is cheaper !
I used the Ride magazine's routes, which I adapted to suit our needs. As per Wapper's post above.
Hope you have better weather then we did.
You really could do very much worse, OP.
The good thing is that Simon W and RiDE have hacked out a pretty good route that is reasonably divided into days to cater for the 'average' biker. Display the routes on your computer and then just amend them a little to suit your needs. If you think you can go further (or do less miles) in a day, great, do it. Want to go somewhere else? Just tug the route around a bit. You CAN do it, I promise.
In the thread:
http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php/443849-Porsche-15-passes-in-four-days
I tried to show how it's possible to take one route (15 passes in 4 days, from a Porsche sponsored book; dreadful things, cars) and add to a route from RiDE (by bikers for bikers) to create one holiday. You could do something similar for yours, for sure. Draw on lots of sources to do it. It's reasonably fun and you get to learn about your holiday as you go along. All good preparation for departure day.
Hi can anyone recommend any routes they may have undertaken from Calais to Switzerland?
There will be 3 of us on the monday morning eurotunnel, gets us into Calais around 9.30 am euro time.
My plan was to head down and have an overnight stop somewhere in between Calais and Interlaken where we will be based from the Tuesday evening until the Friday morning. Don't mind motorway for an early push to eat the miles , but be nice to have some A type roads in afternoon.
Ardennes area? Voseges? Military interest always good?
Not wanting anyone to set me a planned route or the like , but some help would be much appreciated as never been over that side of France and Switzerland before.
Thanks Baz.
....made a few routes up based on the Ride one, then a couple of fast roads without tolls . Put it by the lads and concession is fast roads to our first nights destination ( in the voseges). Then the next few days at a leisurely pace and scenic roads and passes.
sorry you can't make it fella !
I hate you....
Like the sound of thatGreat, you (and RiDE) have done it!
It shows anyone that it can be done and your mates will owe you a beer or more. Which is nice.
sorry you can't make it fella !
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the thing about Switzerland is that prices vary massively some people just stop in the first place they get too and suffer the prices, look around a bit and you can usually get a better price, it is still going to be more expensive than here in part due to the low Pound and the fact they have the highest minimum wage in Europe (I believe) COOP's are usually very reasonably priced for basics and its worth picking up a few bottles of water,beer,wine,coke or whatever takes you fancy from them.hi how much is a decent coffee?
Good value café at the end of the one way (at a time) road at the top of the Grimsel, it is in Hermans book, but easy to find as it the junction is right opposite the other cafes at the top of the pass with a timer showing how long until the lights change. We stopped a few years ago and were surprised how few people bother to ride down there, which may explain the very reasonable prices. Hoping to stay there one year as it looks like a great location for a stopover.
There are a few dead end roads in the book - all around the Andermatt loop and all very pretty, none add exciting twists and turns, but the views are good, the one between Andermatt and the Susten has a nice café at the top - but the prices are a bit steep.
The restaurant at the top of the Nufenen was good value last time we used it (2010) it was a bit like a motorway service station kind of affair with food pre-cooked, but the prices seemed reasonable at the time and the food was surprisingly tasty.
The Goulash Soup is always a good choice for lunch