Cycle touring in Europe

Tex

"BT Humble" <bt_humble@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> My lovely wife and I will be taking a 3 month European vacation from
> September-November this year. We'll be in Germany from mid-October
> for a few weeks, and were looking at doing a short cycle tour (or
> two). Something up to week long perhaps?
>
> Does anyone here have any experience with cycle touring in the region,
> recommendations, etc.?

crazyguyonabike.com is an excellent resource

geoffs

...
> My lovely wife and I will be taking a 3 month European vacation from
> September-November this year. We'll be in Germany from mid-October
> for a few weeks, and were looking at doing a short cycle tour (or
> two). Something up to week long perhaps?
>
> Does anyone here have any experience with cycle touring in the region,
> recommendations, etc.?

Where about in Germany will you be? Lots of different things in different areas.

Cheers

Geoff

Tadej Brezina

BT Humble wrote:
> My lovely wife and I will be taking a 3 month European vacation from
> September-November this year. We'll be in Germany from mid-October
> for a few weeks, and were looking at doing a short cycle tour (or
> two). Something up to week long perhaps?
> Does anyone here have any experience with cycle touring in the region,
> recommendations, etc.?

Well, Germany is quite big (not really in comparison to Australia, I
know), but nevertheless cycle-wise it is.
Where do you plan to stay? In the north, where it is flat, in the center
where it is hilly or in the south, where you may tackle one or the other
alpine pass in fantastic scenery on the border to Austria?

> Also, if you have any contacts in the region or suggestions of German
> equivalents of aus.bicycle that don't mind foreigners posting in
> English, I'd be happy to hear about it! ;-)

You're asking for de.rec.fahrrad. A very active group. English might not
be a problem at all.
As I am an Austrian I could give you some advice for the southernmost
alpine end.

Speaking of Austria:
The cycling route from Passau (border town DE-AT) along the Danube
through Austria, Slovak Republic and Hungary to Budapest ia a
mid-european classic!

If you need any info on that, don't hesitate to e-mail me.
Tadej
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<Martina Diel in d.t.r>

BT Humble

Tadej Brezina wrote:
> BT Humble wrote:
> > My lovely wife and I will be taking a 3 month European vacation from
> > September-November this year. We'll be in Germany from mid-October
> > for a few weeks, and were looking at doing a short cycle tour (or
> > two). Something up to week long perhaps?
> > Does anyone here have any experience with cycle touring in the region,
> > recommendations, etc.?
>
> Well, Germany is quite big (not really in comparison to Australia, I
> know), but nevertheless cycle-wise it is.
> Where do you plan to stay? In the north, where it is flat, in the center
> where it is hilly or in the south, where you may tackle one or the other
> alpine pass in fantastic scenery on the border to Austria?
>
> > Also, if you have any contacts in the region or suggestions of German
> > equivalents of aus.bicycle that don't mind foreigners posting in
> > English, I'd be happy to hear about it! ;-)
>
> You're asking for de.rec.fahrrad. A very active group. English might not
> be a problem at all.
> As I am an Austrian I could give you some advice for the southernmost
> alpine end.
>
> Speaking of Austria:
> The cycling route from Passau (border town DE-AT) along the Danube
> through Austria, Slovak Republic and Hungary to Budapest ia a
> mid-european classic!
>
> If you need any info on that, don't hesitate to e-mail me.
> Tadej

Thanks for that, and thanks to everyone who contributed. We've found
a German tourism site that has quite a bit of detail about routes,
organised tours, etc. Since we want to visit the Somme battlefields
(we both work for the Department of Veterans' Affairs, it sort of
grows on you) we were thinking of actually buying a couple of bikes
and lugging them around with us for a while. I'm guessing that Europe
gets the same kind of Chinese department store bikes that Australia
does? ;-)


BTH