I agree, Lee. Similarly, I agree that the difference in the two distances is nothing too worrying.
I have been looking at this some more and dropping in just a few ‘Must see / must do’ places of which (not unsurprisingly) there are loads. Can you ever do all the sites? No, of course not; unless that is you are German and lived there all your life. I also spoke to a German girl in the office, who confirmed that you’d see more of Germany than many Germans see in a lifetime, which I guess is not really that surprising. All in all, it’s all doable and the plan to ride the lot at an average of 150 miles a day for X number of days remains real. It has though got me wondering, how many bods on bikes have ever ridden the lot? Not that many, I guess? How many have ridden the lot in one go? Even less, I guess, too?
I have been looking at this some more and dropping in just a few ‘Must see / must do’ places of which (not unsurprisingly) there are loads. Can you ever do all the sites? No, of course not; unless that is you are German and lived there all your life. I also spoke to a German girl in the office, who confirmed that you’d see more of Germany than many Germans see in a lifetime, which I guess is not really that surprising. All in all, it’s all doable and the plan to ride the lot at an average of 150 miles a day for X number of days remains real. It has though got me wondering, how many bods on bikes have ever ridden the lot? Not that many, I guess? How many have ridden the lot in one go? Even less, I guess, too?
God willing, I still have a plan to ride the German Motorcycle Route, either in four separate parts (ie four visits to Germany) or maybe something as extreme as riding the whole 7,000 miles in one trip. The advantage of the latter is that I’d save three return Channel crossings. Due to assorted events this year getting in the way, it’ll probably have to be 2024.
I have done some digging around and discovered that Germany has no less than 46 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. This got me thinking that some must be somewhere near at least parts of the route, so why not go to see some of those that are.
The Rough Guide travel book people have made a free downloadable guide to the sites. It will now require me doing nothing more than locating the individual sites’ positions and marking them on my MapSource route map. Then working which ones I can go to see, without interfering too much with the aspiration of riding the Motorcycle Route. Similarly, as I plan to spend a lot of the trip camping, simply to hold down the costs, I plan on marking the most logical campsites to try to stay in.
https://go.roughguides.com/germanys...4.1222901131.1678387652-1404926458.1678387643
The e-book downloads really well into iBooks on my iPad.
I can then bolster this free book with Michelin’s Green Guide and anything else I can pick up (preferably free) on the internet.
Helpfully, the book has a simple map, which you can zoom in on, to make identifying the various sites’ locations easier:
Who knows, by the time I get back I may be able to do a bit more than count to ten and say “Hello” in German.