The Eifel - Ardennes Green Route

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The Eifel-Ardennes Green Route or Eifel-Ardennes Green Road (German: Grüne Straße Eifel-Ardennen, French: Route Verte Ardennes-Eifel) is a cross-border, tourist route, about 500 kilometres long, which links the Ardennes to the Eifel. It runs from France via Belgium and Luxembourg to Germany mainly on quiet by-ways.



For seveveral years I've been seeing signs for this route (and have certainly ridden significant chunks of it, probably without realising) but I've never really bothered to look into it before now. It looks OK and would make a reasonably pleasant way to cross the Ardennes into the Eifel

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Useful, thanks.
I'm going away for a week at Easter. if some friends come I will have the Easter weekend in Bouillon with them, so they can get back to work easily, then do a few days solo, maybe using Koblenz as a base.

If the friends do not commit to Easter weekend then all plans are off as I will go where the best weather can be found...
 
I have created the route in BaseCamp, along with its optional loop Hosingen (start of loop) - Hoschied - Vianden (end of loop) - Roth an der Our. It is 285 miles, starting from Rethel in France; the roads taken look OK, so easily doable in a day. As it takes you straight past the 'ring, it might well make a reasonably nice way to get there from NE France. From Sinzig at the Gerna end, it's across the Rhine by ferry and onwards to the east....

Route is hosted on Dropbox as a .gpx file, created on a Mac. On download it should open straight up in BaseCamp or in Mapsource. Anyone using a Mac might find that it opens as a load of words in a text file. Do not panic! For some unknown reason the original .gpx file can gain a .txt extension. Download the file as normal, save it and then rename it by cutting off the .txt bit but leave the .gpx bit. All should then be good.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8btc02frp...ethel to Sinzig (with optional loop).GPX?dl=0

It looks OK:

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Richard

PS It might be obvious, but... if you are starting from the German end, you'll need to reverse the route.
 
Anyone going to the Eifel, might like to look at this from Motorrad & Reisen magazine March / April edition 2019, available via Readly.

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Download it from the M&R website using the tour code.

From Sinzig at the top of the route in the opening post to say, Daun, in the route suggestion above is no distance at all:

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And you’ll find yourself near Koblenz, which could lead you to this thread:

https://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php/547254-Koblenz

Which, with a bit of imagination, could be stitched together.
 
Bad Bertrich is a nice, quiet village to use as a base. Stayed there with a group for 3 nights in 2018 before moving further east.

This is the hotel recommended above https://www.hotel-am-schwanenweiher.de/en/ which is the other end of the village to where we stayed. The road in between the 2 hotels has a range of eateries and alternative accommodation. There's a large spa and a private hospital that seems to specialise in orthopaedics, so there are quite a few crusties wandering around in the day, exercising new hips.

Our hotel was http://parkhotel-badbertrich.de/ which has a nice setting with a large garden. We dined out every night in a less formal setting but breakfast was very good. Garage parking across the road in Petersstrasse.
 
Bad Bertrich is a nice, quiet village to use as a base. Stayed there with a group for 3 nights in 2018 before moving further east.

This is the hotel recommended above https://www.hotel-am-schwanenweiher.de/en/ which is the other end of the village to where we stayed. The road in between the 2 hotels has a range of eateries and alternative accommodation. There's a large spa and a private hospital that seems to specialise in orthopaedics, so there are quite a few crusties wandering around in the day, exercising new hips.

Our hotel was http://parkhotel-badbertrich.de/ which has a nice setting with a large garden. We dined out every night in a less formal setting but breakfast was very good. Garage parking across the road in Petersstrasse.

Bad Bertrich ?

Sounds more like an unfortunate episode on Grindr !!! :)
 
Bad Bertrich is a nice, quiet village to use as a base. Stayed there with a group for 3 nights in 2018 before moving further east.

This is the hotel recommended above https://www.hotel-am-schwanenweiher.de/en/ which is the other end of the village to where we stayed. The road in between the 2 hotels has a range of eateries and alternative accommodation. There's a large spa and a private hospital that seems to specialise in orthopaedics, so there are quite a few crusties wandering around in the day, exercising new hips.

Our hotel was http://parkhotel-badbertrich.de/ which has a nice setting with a large garden. We dined out every night in a less formal setting but breakfast was very good. Garage parking across the road in Petersstrasse.

Thanks, Wessie.

The observant will see that the suggested route takes the rider close to the ‘Must do’ ‘ring, too.


PS I once stayed in a sanatorium type hotel in Baden Baden for one night, the entire town being booked out for some festival or other. It ranks as one of the strangest stays of my life; a glimpse of a possible future.
 
Bad Bertrich ?

Sounds more like an unfortunate episode on Grindr !!! :)

We did call it Bad Bertie.

It was all a bit cisgender as some woman from West Wales, resident there, took a fancy to me which caused some amusement amongst my companions.
 
If your camping in the Bitburg/Vianden area then this is a fantastic site https://www.camping-dreispatzen.eu/en I stayed there when it was under the previous owners but the site is in a fantastic location, flat field valley trees little river great bar.

I have used the site 3 or 4 times and as a base for the area cant think of a better one. the site is sort of split into two sides one bike/cycle/hike camping then separated by the buildings and showers the caravan camper side. on the camping field bit, there are BBQ to use and a small 20x30 tent with tables and set up so that if its raining you can do your cooking in. All in all great facilities.
There was some wifi but phones worked well so internet if you needed it, books and games to borrow, we had a very drunk game of cludo or some such.
 
Great stuff Wapping.

I have some biker mates who live in Nideggen and I've ridden round that area many times. Nideggen itself and also Monschau are great places to stay as a base. Monschau is particularly pretty, with accommodation to suit most budgets and the local roads are excellent.

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