Inspiration Required - Netherlands & Harz Mountains
I am warming to your juant, better than some of my own
If you have a full seven days between getting off the ferry and getting back onto it, how about....
1. Get off the boat at the Hook of Holland
2. Bite the bullet and get to Rinteln, place of your birth and the ‘start’ of your holiday, as quickly as is decent. One day.
3. A day in Rinteln or a least a long morning, as it looks like quite a nice place. One day gone or better still go the two and half hours from Rinteln to Goslar in the afternoon, to get to Goslar around say 17:00. Two days gone.
4. A relaxed two days riding the criss-cross route, suggested above. Find a town you like the look of about halfway along. Four days gone.
5. You are now at the eastern end of the Harz.... bods often forget that they have to come back!
6. Three days to come back.... If you went right to the end (Kelbra) which is not compulsory.... direct it would look like this.
350 miles, using motorways, doable in a day, depending on what time your boat leaves. So we know you can get back and you have plenty of slack.
7. Then, look at something like this to come back. It’s 500 or more miles but you can lob in motorways, particularly after the Belgian Ardennes and you have three days to do it in. You could do it in two and have a day off somewhere in the Ardennes, or you could put the spare day into the Harz.... or just reserve it for slack.... or come back a day earlier.
It’s difficult to plan bods’ jaunts but I always suggest having a bit of slack in it somewhere. That being said, I do like to push people a bit, as they can often go further (especially towards the end of a holiday, when they have got into a rhythm) than they think they can. There again, I want you to have a good time and, not least, still be married when you come back.... or ditch the witch in the Harz