Cycle touring in Europe

BT Humble

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.?

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! ;-)

Thanks,


BTH

Nick Payne

Around the Bodensee is about a week's fairly easy ride at 50-60km/day. There
is a bike route on either dedicated paths or quiet minor roads the whole way
around the lake - it takes you into Austria and Switzerland as well. Border
controls are pretty much non-existent. There are none between Germany and
Austria, and we just got waved through without being asked to show our
passports when entering and leaving Switzerland.

Nick

"BT Humble" <bt_humble@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:1a7894f0-ce02-4792-a3e0-16af9ab5c082@s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
> 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?

dabac

First you need to figure out what kind of riding you want to do. For a more relaxed ride you can tour the vineyards, and/or basically follow one of the big rivers as they meander through the landscape. Organised rides are(should be) available (that time of year too), with different service levels and degrees of support. Or you can head into the alps which are, all things considered, nearby. October isn't much of a holiday season (unless you're counting Oktoberfest, which isn't fully compatible with bike riding...) so I don't know if the organised, supported tours that runs during summer will still be available. Wouldn't surprise me if some of the smaller gasthauses at the higher elevations would be closed down for the season too.

Bringing your bike on the train is usually easy, so if you're unable to plan a looped itinerary it shouldn't be problem with riding out and then catch a train home.

If you're hoping to stay in towns and villages that mostly looks like fly specks on the maps some advance planning is recommended to make sure that you really have a hotel room and an operating restaurant available at the end of your day's ride.

G-S

BT Humble wrote:
>
> Does anyone here have any experience with cycle touring in the region,
> recommendations, etc.?
>

I recommend taking a photograph of yourself in traditional german
lederhosen (so we can point and laugh


G-S

Donga

On Jan 18, 8:57 pm, G-S <ge...@castbus.com.au> wrote:
> BT Humble wrote:
>
> > Does anyone here have any experience with cycle touring in the region,
> > recommendations, etc.?
>
> I recommend taking a photograph of yourself in traditional german
> lederhosen (so we can point and laugh
>
> G-S

Aw heck, you can do that in Hahndorf, when visiting SA for the Tour
Down Under.

G-S

Donga wrote:
> On Jan 18, 8:57 pm, G-S <ge...@castbus.com.au> wrote:
>> BT Humble wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone here have any experience with cycle touring in the region,
>>> recommendations, etc.?
>> I recommend taking a photograph of yourself in traditional german
>> lederhosen (so we can point and laugh
>>
>> G-S
>
> Aw heck, you can do that in Hahndorf, when visiting SA for the Tour
> Down Under.

I'm not sure that chances to laugh at BTH should be passed up wherever
they happen to occur... so sure... if BTH chances to put on Lederhosen
in Hahndorf then feel free to laugh at him ;-)


G-S

BT Humble

G-S wrote:
> BTHumble wrote:
>
> > Does anyone here have any experience with cycle touring in the region,
> > recommendations, etc.?
>
> I recommend taking a photograph of yourself in traditional german
> lederhosen (so we can point and laugh

You really want me to link to *that* picture, don't you?


BTH

G-S

BT Humble wrote:
> G-S wrote:
>> BTHumble wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone here have any experience with cycle touring in the region,
>>> recommendations, etc.?
>> I recommend taking a photograph of yourself in traditional german
>> lederhosen (so we can point and laugh
>
> You really want me to link to *that* picture, don't you?
>
>
> BTH

I'm immune to the effects of *that* picture now... *backs away slowly*


G-G

Theo Bekkers

G-S wrote:
> BT Humble wrote:

>> You really want me to link to *that* picture, don't you?

> I'm immune to the effects of *that* picture now... *backs away slowly*

What scares me is that he turned up at my house a few hours after taking
*that* picture, and left his undies behind.

Theo

G-S

Theo Bekkers wrote:
> G-S wrote:
>> BT Humble wrote:
>
>>> You really want me to link to *that* picture, don't you?
>
>> I'm immune to the effects of *that* picture now... *backs away slowly*
>
> What scares me is that he turned up at my house a few hours after taking
> *that* picture, and left his undies behind.
>
> Theo
>
>

I think he was geofrpahically confusing it with the 'undies for westies'
charity that's been running in sydney for a few years now.


G-S

G-S

G-S wrote:
> Theo Bekkers wrote:
>> G-S wrote:
>>> BT Humble wrote:
>>
>>>> You really want me to link to *that* picture, don't you?
>>
>>> I'm immune to the effects of *that* picture now... *backs away slowly*
>>
>> What scares me is that he turned up at my house a few hours after
>> taking *that* picture, and left his undies behind.
>>
>> Theo
>>
>
> I think he was geofrpahically confusing it with the 'undies for westies'
> charity that's been running in sydney for a few years now.
>
>
> G-S
>
Gawd... now that was a typo and a half :-/


G-S

Theo Bekkers

G-S wrote:
> G-S wrote:

>> I think he was geofrpahically confusing it with the 'undies for
>> westies' charity that's been running in sydney for a few years now.

> Gawd... now that was a typo and a half :-/

Msot of the lerttes are tehre. :-)

Theo
Tryin the theory that things read OK if all the letters are there and the
first and last letters are in place.

Resound

"Theo Bekkers" <tbekkers@bekkers.com.au> wrote in message
news:47917361$1@news.bekkers.com.au...
> G-S wrote:
>> G-S wrote:
>
>>> I think he was geofrpahically confusing it with the 'undies for
>>> westies' charity that's been running in sydney for a few years now.
>
>> Gawd... now that was a typo and a half :-/
>
> Msot of the lerttes are tehre. :-)
>
> Theo
> Tryin the theory that things read OK if all the letters are there and the
> first and last letters are in place.
>

Oh yaeh, taht difntelay wkors. It sltil wderis me out taht it deos but it's
a fnkuy tnhig awnyay.

GPW

I lot of people that I know have done the Danube river ride and
enjoyed it. I've ridden up to the Black Forrest fron Zurich which was
nice as well. But if you want awesome scenery and brilliantly marked
cycle routes its hard to beat Switzerland :-)
http://www.cycling-in-switzerland.c...ern_change.html
or go to the general website http://www.englishforum.ch and do some
searches on cycling.

Cheers
Greg