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First trip in Germany, advice pls
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I had a girlfriend who spoke about 5 languages fluently, she had a natural gift for such things. I speak fairly abysmal French but can generally make myself understood, so she tested me one day and concluded I had the language skills of a 5 year old, I was rather pleased until she pointed out that it wasn’t meant as a compliment!
If I ask for a beer in the UK, in ungrammatical, heavily accented English, I always get a beer.
Likewise in German, I'll also get one. And often a smile too!
Please and bitte help also.
You should be ashamed of yourself young man...........If I ask for a beer in the UK, in ungrammatical, heavily accented English, I always get a beer.
Likewise in German, I'll also get one. And often a smile too!
Please and bitte help also.
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I can order beer in French, German, Spanish, Italian and Russian, that covers most places
One cannot live on beer aloneI can order beer in French, German, Spanish, Italian and Russian, that covers most places
Thank you for the answers.
Gold star for the OP?
I have roughed you out a six day jaunt, length 1,200 miles and counting….
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1. Yes, I know you want (would like) 10 days but I’ve ended it in the Black Forest, where you’ll easily fill another four days, even if some of the days will not be 200 miles individually. There are umpteen links on the forum and / or ideas on the web as to where to ride and / or what to see and do in the very popular ‘Must do’ Schwartzwald.
2. It is very rough.
3. The yellow hands are each about 200 miles apart.
4. The hands are not recommendations as to where to stay per-se, they are simply ‘mile posts’, for want of a better word.
5. As you want to spend time in Germany, I have purposely not included the Vosges, though you could mix them in:
Likewise, amending the return to come up through the Morvan or wherever on the eastern side of France.
6. On the same sort of mucking about theme, you could fool around in the Pirmasens sort of area, before cutting across to Baden-Baden on the way down:
There again, you could kick that all into touch and go to the Eifel / Harz instead…. Or, pretty much curve up to the Baltic coast, go down to Berlin, Dresden, then Passau and work your way back via Garmische….. it’s a big place, Germany….. or go to the bits that people miss out…..
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1. Yes, I know you want (would like) 10 days but I’ve ended it in the Black Forest, where you’ll easily fill another four days, even if some of the days will not be 200 miles individually. There are umpteen links on the forum and / or ideas on the web as to where to ride and / or what to see and do in the very popular ‘Must do’ Schwartzwald.
2. It is very rough.
3. The yellow hands are each about 200 miles apart.
4. The hands are not recommendations as to where to stay per-se, they are simply ‘mile posts’, for want of a better word.
5. As you want to spend time in Germany, I have purposely not included the Vosges, though you could mix them in:
Likewise, amending the return to come up through the Morvan or wherever on the eastern side of France.
6. On the same sort of mucking about theme, you could fool around in the Pirmasens sort of area, before cutting across to Baden-Baden on the way down:
There again, you could kick that all into touch and go to the Eifel / Harz instead…. Or, pretty much curve up to the Baltic coast, go down to Berlin, Dresden, then Passau and work your way back via Garmische….. it’s a big place, Germany….. or go to the bits that people miss out…..
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Thank you Wapping, that’s very helpful
Thank you Wapping, that’s very helpful
It’ll give you a start, I hope,
Just as an add on, you could have a lot of fun, riding around in a very small area on the way back:
I have just spent three days there, entirely in the area below, staying in Simmerath (in the middle) simply as the town suited what I wanted to do:
Zoom in on a Michelin map, to see what I mean.
Conveniently, the route in post #49, takes you through a part of it. Worth a detour, as Mr Bibendum says.
PS I told you it was a big place, Germany 
I have just spent three days there, entirely in the area below, staying in Simmerath (in the middle) simply as the town suited what I wanted to do:
Zoom in on a Michelin map, to see what I mean.
Conveniently, the route in post #49, takes you through a part of it. Worth a detour, as Mr Bibendum says.
PS I told you it was a big place, Germany
You’re a gem, thank you once again. I owe you a pint…
Warming to a theme. If your wife likes to see ‘stuff’ and (very understandably) doesn’t want to traipse around ‘war stuff’, a neat idea might be to include Koblenz.
Thirty five minutes by train from Cochem. That at least would be different.
Me? I’d stay in Koblenz, probably.
This works as well, if you don’t ride 200 miles every day for 10 days. Take a day off….. Germany won’t vanish before the next time you go, I promise.
Thirty five minutes by train from Cochem. That at least would be different.
Me? I’d stay in Koblenz, probably.
This works as well, if you don’t ride 200 miles every day for 10 days. Take a day off….. Germany won’t vanish before the next time you go, I promise.
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Carrying on with the idea of Koblenz, you could use the attractive city as a hub, returning to it from riding these circular suggestions:
For example, you could chop the first one into two, riding down southwards from Koblenz to the bottom and then back up again to Koblenz.
Via the popular ‘must do’ towns of Cochem, Bernkastel-Kues etc.
Courtesy of Motorrad magazine 22/2021, available via Readly.
Play around in the Motorrad website: https://maps.motorradonline.de
You can’t break it.
You can ask your search engine to translate it in to English:
Courtesy of Motorrad magazine 22/2021, available via Readly.
Play around in the Motorrad website: https://maps.motorradonline.de
You can’t break it.
You can ask your search engine to translate it in to English:
For example, you could chop the first one into two, riding down southwards from Koblenz to the bottom and then back up again to Koblenz.
Thinking about your wife’s wish to see ‘stuff’, how about riding the length of the Romantic Road?
Here’s a GPX file for it:
It’s about 300 miles, so maybe break it into two or even three days if you want to stop and see things.
This rough 550 mile route will take you from Calais, via Koblenz (see above) to Wurzburg:
From the end of the Romantic Road at Fussen, back to Calais, is about 700 miles:
It cuts through the Black Forest, Luxembourg and the Belgian Ardennes.
Here’s another way of looking at it:
Overall, some sort of reworking of these should give you a pretty decent 10 day holiday for you AND your wife to enjoy.
The basic total length 1,550 miles. This distance over 10 days gives 155 miles a day, well within your target distances per day. It then allows you some time to see things (better known on these pages as ‘stuff’) and / or have a day off.
Here’s a GPX file for it:
It’s about 300 miles, so maybe break it into two or even three days if you want to stop and see things.
This rough 550 mile route will take you from Calais, via Koblenz (see above) to Wurzburg:
From the end of the Romantic Road at Fussen, back to Calais, is about 700 miles:
It cuts through the Black Forest, Luxembourg and the Belgian Ardennes.
Here’s another way of looking at it:
Overall, some sort of reworking of these should give you a pretty decent 10 day holiday for you AND your wife to enjoy.
The basic total length 1,550 miles. This distance over 10 days gives 155 miles a day, well within your target distances per day. It then allows you some time to see things (better known on these pages as ‘stuff’) and / or have a day off.
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Always comes up with a fantastic worthwhile trip
What have you decided on OP?
