Thank you. Yup, I have a big collection of routes, which I have been tidying-up and looking at some more. The whole Covid thing and not going away or even out in any significant way, got me to planning some jaunts for when the world returns to some sort of normal. I was lucky in that I was able to get away last year for a month in August to lap France, all in a year when (if you’d asked me) I thought I had done nothing. Doing nothing now, means I have got to do something useful for the future. I do though wonder how many posts will pop-up when the travel restrictions are lifted, with bods urgently requesting routes for THEIR holidays, which somehow seem to have crept up on them, as if by magic over the past however many months it will be?
The B500 has certainly changed a lot (from an enforcement point of view) over the years, but I guess a lot of other ‘Must do’ places and roads have, too.
I like the German touring magazines, of which Tourenfahrer is but one. I thought I might use the time to pick out some of the most popular areas that bods might visit, to give them some ideas. Not least I hoped to show that, with just a little imagination (mixed in with a bit of effort) it’s possible to create holidays, rather than just post a multi-line request for ‘Great roads, no motorways’ sometimes over a thousand miles in length, on UKGSer.
I liked the route suggestion in the opening post, as (to me at least) it sets the imagination going.
(A) How would I get to Freiburg? Could I fly there and hire a bike, if I was pushed for time and had to start my journey in the north of Scotland or Ireland? Could I truck my bike there and fly down or even drive?
(B) Might it be an idea to find a hotel in the middle, roughly where the purple blob thing is?
(C) How long would I set aside to ride the 600 plus kilometres? The magazine suggests two days. Would I take three or four days, if I wanted to stop, take pictures, lie in bed until 10 AM or take up wild flower pressing?
(D) What lies in the big green area above? How might I find out? If there is anything, how might I join it up?