Champagne - Ardenne, not to be confused with 'The Ardennes' in Belgium though they do overlap a bit, is a region in north-eastern France, easily accessible from Calais and offers some good motorcycling roads.
The regional tourist office has put together a nice website that's brought together several of the excellent ViaMichelin suggested routes into one place. All the PDF's download well into iBooks.
http://www.champagne-ardenne-tourism.co.uk
Scroll down the website' opening page
Click on motorbike trips, lets go
Brings you to http://www.champagne-ardenne-tourism.co.uk/discover/motorbikes-trips
Click on the middle box, which will bring you to http://www.champagne-ardenne-tourism.co.uk/discover/motortorbikes-trips/motorbikes-trips
Click on any of the boxes, for example here's the 'Between the Marne (river) and the vines'
http://www.champagne-ardenne-touris...-trips/motorbike-trip-between-marne-and-vines
Click on the two short cuts to the PDF's. One will give a description and a small map of the route
http://www.champagne-ardenne-touris...t/files/between_marne_river_and_the_vines.pdf
the other a larger map of the route
http://www.tourisme-champagne-arden...s/files/carte_viree_entre_marne_et_vignes.pdf
Either or both should be easy enough to get the gist of what's there to see and ride.
You can also download a GPS version of the routes, too.
Repeat for the other suggestions and you'll have the lot. Bods often ask for ideas for a short break or a week away in France, reasonably close to Calais. The website should give them some easy to adopt ideas and some good riding. Want to find a hotel? Easy, just pick one of the towns on any of the routes, go into TripAdvisor or Booking.com and then choose one that suits you. Better still, look at the suggestions built into other parts of the same website, you'll find them. Another idea would be to try: https://relais-motards.com which are 'biker friendly' (whatever that means) sites, lodgings, hotels, digs... choose your own names.
Richard
PS The same website's suggested WW1 route and itinerary looks OK, too
http://www.champagne-ardenne-tourism.co.uk/discover/first-world-war-14-18
http://www.tourisme-champagne-arden...rande_guerre_et_agenda_du_centenaire_2016.pdf
Use it in much the same way. Muck about, you really cannot break it. It's worthwhile seeing the French sites which in reach from the Somme southwards, all the way to Switzerland. If nothing else it'll serve to remind bods that it was very far from an entirely British sacrifice.
The regional tourist office has put together a nice website that's brought together several of the excellent ViaMichelin suggested routes into one place. All the PDF's download well into iBooks.
http://www.champagne-ardenne-tourism.co.uk
Scroll down the website' opening page
Click on motorbike trips, lets go
Brings you to http://www.champagne-ardenne-tourism.co.uk/discover/motorbikes-trips
Click on the middle box, which will bring you to http://www.champagne-ardenne-tourism.co.uk/discover/motortorbikes-trips/motorbikes-trips
Click on any of the boxes, for example here's the 'Between the Marne (river) and the vines'
http://www.champagne-ardenne-touris...-trips/motorbike-trip-between-marne-and-vines
Click on the two short cuts to the PDF's. One will give a description and a small map of the route
http://www.champagne-ardenne-touris...t/files/between_marne_river_and_the_vines.pdf
the other a larger map of the route
http://www.tourisme-champagne-arden...s/files/carte_viree_entre_marne_et_vignes.pdf
Either or both should be easy enough to get the gist of what's there to see and ride.
You can also download a GPS version of the routes, too.
Repeat for the other suggestions and you'll have the lot. Bods often ask for ideas for a short break or a week away in France, reasonably close to Calais. The website should give them some easy to adopt ideas and some good riding. Want to find a hotel? Easy, just pick one of the towns on any of the routes, go into TripAdvisor or Booking.com and then choose one that suits you. Better still, look at the suggestions built into other parts of the same website, you'll find them. Another idea would be to try: https://relais-motards.com which are 'biker friendly' (whatever that means) sites, lodgings, hotels, digs... choose your own names.
Richard
PS The same website's suggested WW1 route and itinerary looks OK, too
http://www.champagne-ardenne-tourism.co.uk/discover/first-world-war-14-18
http://www.tourisme-champagne-arden...rande_guerre_et_agenda_du_centenaire_2016.pdf
Use it in much the same way. Muck about, you really cannot break it. It's worthwhile seeing the French sites which in reach from the Somme southwards, all the way to Switzerland. If nothing else it'll serve to remind bods that it was very far from an entirely British sacrifice.