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The Vosges is fab with kids - lots of good hiking, Gerardemer for pedaloing, and an amazing luge track.
The cheese shop in Gerardmer is the 8th wonder of the world
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1 camping triglav and the eco turismo behind it are very good.
2 saverne is indeed a nice spot and handy for the motorway.
3. Vosges Nord is indeed a bit tree-y but nice nonetheless.
3 Vosges sud is a bit more interesting.
4. Going south again the Jura is very nice.
Nuremburg is brilliant. Massive medieval walls, interesting castle, underground tunnel trips, sausages, railway museum and that’s before you’ve got on the tram to go and see Hitlers Zeppelin grounds and the visitor centre there. Playmobile land is close by too depending on the age of your family.
I keep meaning to reply but never get round to it.
Sounds daft, but if you go to NUE and the kids are of that age (5-23) then defo go to Palm Beach swimming pool. It is amazing. Always the highlight of my kids' trips to see Oma.
Also agree with Playmobil land.
And the fraenkische Schweiz. Lovely place. Loads of short but hard rock climbing, and a bit of MTB ( limited by the 2m rule. And Teuts' complete inability to understand what MTB actually is)
Also fichtelgebirge good. With MTB uplift at Ochsenkopf.
We stayed in the Black Forest in 2017, ended up leaving a day early as we got cabin fever due to not being able to see anything but trees. This was good fun though https://treetop-walks.com/schwarzwald/
If you're that way inclined and the wife & kids can stand you being a big kid for a bit there's also the Unimog Museum
the fraenkische Schweiz. Lovely place. Loads of short but hard rock climbing, and a bit of MTB ( limited by the 2m rule. And Teuts’ complete inability to understand what MTB actually is)
The 2m rule doesn't apply here... it's a Baden Württemberg thing and Franken is in Bavaria, but not really Bavaria (a relative newcomer thanks to Napoleon gifting Franken to Bayern after the Bavarians sided with the winning side (again) during Napoleon's march through the German lands).
Agreed that for most Germans their idea of MTB is gravel roads and saddles wedged up your arse.
If anyone gets over to the SE of East German this place is lovely.
https://www.saechsische-schweiz.de/
It's on the Elbe cycle route which we took from near Berlin to Prague. Most of our travel in Germany has been on bikes:
Bodensee-Königsee radweg
Paris-Berlin
Part of the Baltic route
Part of the North sea route
Down the Rhine, up the Mosel
Parts of the Donau radweg
Black forest trails
Copenhagen-Metz
Bodensee radweg (can be dangerously busy in August at some times of the day)
There are many more to go at, nearly all the big German rivers have cycle routes along them. Bikes are fine on anything but ICEs to get to start or end points, or skip a bit you're not interested in. It's a great way to see Germany with mini-campings for cyclists along the popular routes. There are bike hire companies on the popular sections of the routes if the OP wants to try the radweg experience. It's a bit like Compostelle routes, do one, you get hooked and look forward to the next one. Holland, France... too but OP has a route in mind. If you fancy riding a particular mountain/road/radweg there will always be somewhere to rent a roadie, MTB or tourer.
Re German beer
I usually drink weißbier/hefeweizen and my wife will drink the local Helles style beer
We've spent a lot of time on holiday in Germany and Austria in the last 10-12 years but they nicest beer we've had was last year in the Chiemgau Alps near Chiemsee. Most beers were local from Traunstein or Rosenheim and they were outstanding. I'm not sure if it's the local water or a different kind of method but it had a subtle creamy quality which I'd never had before.
