You have all the correct words but not in the order they were originally written.
Southern Germany, where you do park safely?
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The answer to what seems to be your two questions are all in the replies:
A. The area as a whole is considered reasonably safe. That doesn’t mean motorcycles are not stolen, but it’s safe enough.
B. Use your security. You’ve lugged it with you so you might as well use it. Don’t be tempted to arrive and then say to yourself, I’ll check in, get changed, shower, wander to the bar and do it later.
C. Yes, a garage at a hotel is maybe nice, obviously. Just make sure you don’t get boxed in by other bikes, who might not be leaving quite as early as you and visa-versa. Yes, the details of the garages might be brief. What do you want, a written and signed affidavit as you wing your way around, all devil may care, booking on a whim? Are garages vital? No.
D. If you do garage your bike, still attend to point B. If you don’t intend to, leave the weight behind.
Do you have similar concerns between Rotterdam and the Black Forest on your way to the ‘unknown’ of southern Germany?
PS Do not neglect the pound of butter in your fridge.
Enjoy your holiday.
maybe people noticed but then read the text in the post without feeling the need to resort to pedantry about the subject line's incoherence
It may be pedantic to you but reading correctly the post was asking a question that those who cannot read weren’t answering. You in fact were answering a question you wanted to answer. It is a regular thing on here. People answering questions that were in fact never asked. This time it was, as has been admitted to, written with the words asking a different question than was intended.
We as a group are looking at southern Germany next year as a trip and a poster stating how safe it is for parking was actually pretty reassuring.
I agree, some helpful replies and encouraging.The answer to what seems to be your two questions are all in the replies:
Do you have similar concerns between Rotterdam and the Black Forest on your way to the ‘unknown’ of southern Germany?
Enjoy your holiday.
I suppose I am thinking about the whole trip, but anticipate blasting down with just one overnight in the middle each way (I suspect somewhere around Saarland) so will take heed. Thankfully it looks like little rural hotels are plentiful.
Thanks
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It might be different next year….. or even this, if the OP gets his bike nicked.
Nah, he’ll follow your advice and have the butter in the fridge.
Foolish not to, irrespective of the year or destination.
When I go to Germany I like to Park in Flensburg.... or Husum, Friedrichstadt, Laboe, Ploen or even Kappeln
well safe, no bother, never has been...
bit of a commute to the south, then again the south is full of southern shandy drinking Koontz in my opinion why the hell would anyone got there... is beyond me...!
well safe, no bother, never has been...
bit of a commute to the south, then again the south is full of southern shandy drinking Koontz in my opinion why the hell would anyone got there... is beyond me...!
I still do not understand your beef. I read the whole post and felt I gave an answer which the OP acknowledged with a like. I felt I was communicating with the OP. You? Not so much.
any large city with good transport links and close to international borders is likely to be a target for thieves. Especially when there are no border checks ...
The way I read it, which is exactly how it was written the post was stating how much safer motorcycle parking was in southern Germany. That is what the post was saying. Why you seem to think it said something else I’ve no idea.
The original post was pretty helpful for me as I’m currently arranging a bike trip to that area next year. The post subsequently got changed which made it less helpful as it now appears to be asking about safe parking. Why you seem to have a problem with that is again beyond me. The reason I wasn’t communicating with the OP was because his post originally seemed like a post advising that parking is indeed much safer in southern Germany. This didn’t need a reply.
On a side note, at a hotel in Wertheim, I had to park outside, but it was a gated car park and it rained in the evening, I forgot to put my cover over, but I came out the next morning and found this 
The Hotel night staff had a cover that someone had left behind, so put it over the Stelvio to keep it "dry".
I had to chuckle when I walked out in the morning, as the cover must have been for a scooter, but I wasn't complaining
Don't forget the butter in those sensible precautions, which luckily in Germany is still ............ Butter, so no linguistic contortionism for the OP to go through for that final piece of mind.
The Hotel night staff had a cover that someone had left behind, so put it over the Stelvio to keep it "dry".I had to chuckle when I walked out in the morning, as the cover must have been for a scooter, but I wasn't complaining
Don't forget the butter in those sensible precautions, which luckily in Germany is still ............ Butter, so no linguistic contortionism for the OP to go through for that final piece of mind.
