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Trip to Lake Constance via France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany & Austria
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Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:41 pm
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As I mentioned in other threads, I had an idea to go to the Bavarian Alps this year. I put a message in the Fb group used by my regular touring pals and had good interest. The core of the group will be away for 2 weeks with others dropping in and out at various points. One wife is flying in and out of Memmingen airport, just doing the Alpine bit. One couple leave us on day 4 to head to Italy.
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Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:29 pm
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Enjoy.
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Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:39 pm
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Looks like a good trip, good balance of days on and off the bike. I also always prefer Portsmouth, always less chaotic than Dover. |
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Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:22 pm
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Zitat von Freddyfruitbat im Beitrag #2 if we hadn't a room in Kent then my friends from near Oswestry and I would have got a Tunnel on Day 0 and stayed in the Ibis Budget in St Omer in France as it is cheaper and gives you a head start in France. We would have ended up spending over £95 for the night though, as we tend to end up eating meat cooked over fire in https://www.restaurantles3caves.fr/
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Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:45 pm
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Living in East Yorkshire means we usually travel on P&O out of Hull to Rotterdam for our annual trip to Germany. Last year this came in at about £500 for two bikes with evening meals both ways. |
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Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:02 pm
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Zitat von Alda im Beitrag #5 As already said, even a cheap hotel is not what we would call cheap now. A hotel plus food is going to cost you £100 in each direction so you are down to £400 for the ferry when you take that out. You would do an extra 250 miles each way so about £70 in fuel, and say another £30 for tyre wear. Is the ferry worth £300 or £150 each way to avoid those 5 hours riding to Kent? What about Harwich to Hook of Holland? Still over 200 miles but no passage through Greater London. Is the ferry any cheaper? My friends from near Chorley prefer it to Hull.
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Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:25 pm
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I haven't come across the other threads in case you posted the dates, my plans include south-north Austria via Grossglockner, Schwarzwald, Rhine, Cologne, Hamburg and back.
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Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:33 pm
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Zitat von Valks im Beitrag #7 day 1 is 31 May and we will be leaving France on 13 June, the day before the Euros start. I wanted to go further east in the Alps but hotels were scarce and expensive for my group size near Tegernsee south of Munich. One theory is that many Germans will have booked their holidays in the mountains in early June so they have booked all of the cheaper hotels. Those hotels south of Munich will be very popular during the tournament as it is one of the major host cities.
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Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:12 pm
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In 2019 I took a river cruise through Germany. The side trip to Luxembourg included a visit to the American military cemetery and the cemetery for the Nazis. Very sobering.
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Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:32 pm
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Zitat von zer0netgain im Beitrag #9 yes, visited many of the formal memorials but the most moving ones are the less formal ones to the Maquis, i.e. French Resistance that you encounter by chance. Usually at sites where a group was summarily executed by the Nazis. I have encountered two in my travels. One in a forest in the Ardennes and one at a mountain pass SW of Annecy. I felt very uneasy riding near the Natzwiller Concentration camp in Alsace. It's where the Nazis sent the gays. They were forced to mine local marble which was used to aggrandise Nazi HQ in Berlin by Albert Speer. Many were worked to death or murdered if they were broken.
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