Doc does…. Maybe something else in Thüringen - Rhön, Germany

[Wapping]

Doc,

To add something else to your for thoughts for a holiday in the Thüringen - Rhön area of Germany, I have dug out a whole bunch of ideas.

The first set of seven are a bit of an assortment:

 

[Wapping]

 

[Wapping]

The next seven, all come from one hotel, that centres on motorcycle holidays.

All the routes start from the hotel, which makes life pretty easy.

The hotel is:

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www.konrad-zuse-hotel.de

Find it here:



Google tells me that there are other hotels in the town, too.


I guess the good thing about the hotel is that the town it’s in, is a pretty decent size. This suggests that there might well be plenty of bars / restaurants / things to see and do:

Hünfeld

Hünfeld - Wikipedia

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There is also a train station, which might be good, if you wanted to have a day off the bike and go somewhere else.

 

[Wapping]

 

[Doc]

Wapping your a star thanks very much.

 

[Wapping]

No problem.

If I was going, I think I’d maybe stay in Fulda and then use some of the hotel’s routes in posts #3 and #4.

 

[Wapping]

Here’s another, centred on Fulda:

And another three not far away:

 

[Wapping]

As you can see (and as Wessie said in another thread) the whole area is littered with routes. It’s a popular holiday destination for lots of Germans, not only those on motorbikes. That means there’ll be hotels by the dozen, too.

As with many places, the advertisements for many of the hotels used to mention motorcycling. These adverts have changed a lot over the past 10 to15 years, many now promoting walking and bicycling. That doesn’t mean that it’s suddenly become bad for motorcycling overnight. It’s just an example of the new ‘Green’ world we live in and, not least, that bods walking and cycling all like just the same sort of roads and scenery as someone on a motorcycle or in a sports car. At heart, we are all the same.

What might be interesting to do, would be to go to see where the ‘Iron curtain’ used to run, dividing Germany between east and west. Because nobody was allowed within several hundred metres of the steel and concrete wall which crossed Germany north to south from the Baltic coast right the way to the very south, nature took it back. Large parts of the Thüringen region are now part of a UNESCO site, saving the ‘nature’ that grew up in an attractive area as a whole.

 

[Wapping]

Well done, Doc for deciding to go somewhere ‘different’ again.

You could create a great set of holidays, ‘doing’ each of the German political regions, as they all offer something different.


This holiday will take you to sort of this bit:



So plenty more to go!

 

[Doc]

We do enjoy visiting Germany

 

[wessie]

What struck me when we went to the area this year is the size of Bavaria. The hotel I recommended overlooks the River Main that forms the border with Bad Württemberg. The hotel is on the southern bank of the river and you would expect it to be be in Bavaria, but it is in Bad W and you look across to Bavaria on the north side.
The border between the states does weird things near there, with a triple point involving Hessen as well.

 

[wessie]

Bavaria is over 3 times the size of Wales and has over 4 times the population. It's 10% bigger than Scotland and has 2.5 times the population.

 

[Wapping]

I must confess that, outside of the ‘must do’ places, I rather ignored Germany, usually heading to France instead. Doing a lap of Germany, by riding all the way around the edge, made me realise how much I’d missed doing.

As Wessie says, the place is huge and every area is different. I still intend to ride the German Motorcycle Route at some point…. Hopefully all of it before I push up the daisies.

GPX - The German 'Motorcycle route'

https://www.motorradstrassen.de/touren/motorradstrasse-deutschland In several threads and posts I have pointed bods in the direction of the German 'Motorcycle route' which (as its name suggests) is a dedicated set of suggested joined routes, covering the four quarters of Germany, north, south...

www.ukgser.com

 

[EVskiy]

Germany seem to be largely avoided by the folks. I like it over there. It suits my somewhat orderly nature.

Come May/June. I might be with wifey in tow head to Austria again, not least as I was invited by my classmate from blooming yonks ago to come and visit. She and her hubby are even willing to put us up for a few nights. So my plan is to explore Germany a bit more on the way in and out of Austria. If I wasn’t tied down to marriage, business etc, I think I’d wind down somewhere in the southern Germany or Austria. Instead I a now stick in this broken trough of a country, where every f*cker in the politics want to r***e dry for the shirt of be my back. Here is hoping they get their sh*t together and things will be rosey again in a decade when or so. Unlikely but here is hoping.

Thanks Wapping and Wessie for some good suggestions. I sure will investigate the possibilities of mixing up a tour. Probably the only tour I’ll be doing next year anyway, so got to be good.

 

[Posh Pete]

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Check this out Doc. You can also ask them for a copy of their booklet for English speakers.

 

[Wapping]

I have found this one, which sort of starts near Fulda, but it’s nearly 450 miles long. It would make a good, three day holiday jaunt.

 

[Doc]

I have found this one, which sort of starts near Fulda, but it’s nearly 450 miles long. It would make a good, three day holiday jaunt.

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Thanks again,
We don't mind the odd one night. But otherwise we prefer a 2 or 3 nights somewhere and explore from a base. For us anyway and especially the boss it becomes a chore.
Still looking for a base like you say Wapping with a few amenities.

 

[Wapping]

Still looking for a base like you say Wapping with a few amenities.

That’s just a matter of looking at a map, and finding a town or large village that suits. Much of Germany is now covered by Google’s excellent Street View, which can give a very good idea of what it’s like. Similarly, putting the place’s name into Google, will often ping up enough basic details.

Likewise, putting the route(s) you want to ride onto a map and finding a town central to all or some of them, works too.

To my mind, Fulda looks pretty good.

 

[Wapping]

People knock Google but, at heart, it is a fantastic free source of (often) some pretty good information. Here’s Fulda, just as an example.

It has a map, showing that it’s near a major motorway. Motorways are good if you want to get somewhere else quickly. It also has a pretty large railway station, similarly useful if you want a day out. Two seconds more on Google, will tell you where the trains go to.





Down the side of the Google map screen, there is a column with all sorts of information, too.








56 minutes to Frankfurt’s central station, to have a look at a big city. Or, if you get up early, two-and-three-quarter hours to Munich central station. Get a train at seven’ish and you’d be in the ‘capital’ of southern Germany for a look-see by 10 o’clock. A bit less to Cologne. Just three hours to Berlin; get a train at about 06:30. Wander about or use Google to find you the ‘10 best things to see and do in……’.

Just tap away and let your imagination do the rest.

 

[Doc]

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