A conversation over lunch has brought an interesting idea to the fore for 2015. Cycling from England, Warwick to be exact, to Munich in time for Oktoberfest. We're thinking doing it over 10 or so day, 100 mile days or thereabouts.
Anyone done anything similar or can offer advise on this idea?
This might give some inspiration:
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/a-little-report-from-my-trip-to-slovenia-pic-heavy
I went the other way last summer, flew from Stansted to Munich, then spent two weeks wiggling about back up though Germany, Austria, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Then we took the overnight ferry from Hook of Holland to Harwich and cycled back to Stansted. That was the worst part.
I planned the first few days as I know the south of Germany reasonably well, and had planned to arrive at a friends' in the Black Forest at the end of day 3, then after that we winged it, route was very nice, other than the area around the France/Luxembourg border.
From memory, rough route was:
Munich, Lenggries, Fussen, Lake Constance, Black Forest, Freibourg, Strasbourg, Metz, Luzembourg, Bastogne, past Leige, Maastrict, Rotterdam, the Hague.
...with a few other stops on the way in smaller places.
Would definitely recommend Metz and Freibourg, both beautiful old cities with campsites right in the middle of the city.
Even travelling at bike speed, we were amazed at how quickly the terrain changed from one day to the next.
Let me know if you'd like any more route info or places to stay, I can dig out the gps files if nec.
Ed