Zeebrugge - Strasbourg?

[sven]

Apart from rattling the first hundred miles or so off on the motorway, has anyone any recommendations for quick, scenic routes?

It's about 360 miles for my currently planned route via Verdun and we'd like to be in Strasbourg by 6pm. ISTR I disembarked the North Sea ferry at around 9:30am last time and I tend to "make progress" on A/B roads.

 

[Wapping]

Easy to plot on a map.

Get yourself a copy of the Michelin maps suggested in the sticky.... or use Michelin's own website: viamichelin.

Head down all and any roads that take your fancy, leaving yourself enough time to complete your journey within your time frame / daily and hourly riding plans.

 

[Deleted account Cooperman]

I'm heading to the lake at Gerardmer in the Vosges for the first stop.

Plan to Mway around Brussels, drop into Bouillon and then follow the river Meuse down to Verdun and beyond......(picking up as many Michellin green roads as I can).

Not sure how long it will take, but plenty of opportunities to bail out onto Mway if the clock starts ticking.

I think Tarka did some of this on his way back.

 

[John Armstrong]

You'll have about 8 hours riding (according to your timings) so after the 100 motorway miles that's 260 in 4 hours (the road out of Zeebrugge has lots of traffic lights) and assuming 2 hours of stops. So that's averaging 60 mph, which I'd guess will not be that easy to do. Will you have a pillion, be in a group?

YMMV though.

 

[sven]

I've used the Zeebrugge ferry before to an overnight stop in Troyes, which we reached at 5:30pm including about 100 miles of motorway, a leisurely lunchstop and about an hour at a WW1 British cemetery (solo, but leading a group of six bikes).

I find riding in a group adds a lot of time to the journey due to longer fuel and rest stops e.g. 330 non-motorway miles from Heidelburg to Chur via the Black Forest took nearly 9 hours in a group with pillions in 2004, but I did the same route solo in less than 6 hours the year after.

This time it's just my wife and me. Looks like we may have to resort to faster A roads and perhaps head towards Trier and then east of Luxembourg to cover the distance in reasonable time without too much motorway

After that the daily distances are all around 200 miles

 

[John Armstrong]

This time it's just my wife and me. Looks like we may have to resort to faster A roads and perhaps head towards Trier and then east of Luxembourg to cover the distance in reasonable time without too much motorway

Did Trier to Zeebrugge coming back from the Dolomites last year on an airhead. Used the motorway to get around Luxembourg then headed across country via Dinant and Mons (for some WW1 sightseeing) then motorways again to Zeebrugge. Attached is the route I was thinking of doing, but decided on the quicker option in the end.