As a bit of fun, I invested two euros in the article. It doesn’t have any GPS links. It does though show better where the 10 jaunts are located geographically:
Here’s the figure of eight route, blown up a bit:
As I guessed, the author started from Nürnberg, I assume as it’s the regional capital or maybe because from there to Happurg (the middle of the eight shape) is a nice road.
Anyway, the 10 are pretty good and would make instant holidays for anyone who happened to find themselves there. This is helped as er-minio has kindly set about carving them into biker friendly BaseCamp….. an impossible thing to attempt, apparently!
PS After my lap of Germany, I became quite a fan of the place. It’s not that far from Belgium / Luxembourg to go a bit further eastwards to say Mayen or Fulda to see what’s on offer.
That is from St Vith on the Belgium / German border (Battle of the Bulge territory) which an easy day’s ride from Calais or Rotterdam. Hopefully, the post and thread will give bods the encouragement to go elsewhere in Germany instead of going to the Black Forest again.
PPS It does show how much information and ideas there is available on the internet, often for free or for just a couple of quid (less than half a pint of London Pride) all available by just surfing around. I subscribe to the German touring magazines via Readly, not least as they are way better than anything published in the UK. I get ideas from them, which I shove up here. More importantly perhaps, I then do nothing more than put a place or German area name into Google - for example, Hessen - and then just add ‘motorrad touren’ and see what pops up. It’s a bit of DIY - which requires a bit of effort - but it’s a not unreasonable alternative to posting “Me and my six mates are off on Tuesday, we want great roads….”. You don’t have to speak German, I don’t. All you need is a bit of imagination (you pretty quickly learn some words) and have a tiny bit of faith that just because something appears in a magazine (paid for by advertisers, mate) it doesn’t mean that it’s automatically shite. They can’t all be bad or the magazines would have folded long ago. It does though make me wonder why the UK cannot support similar high quality publications; I guess the average British bikermate just ain’t interested?
Have fun, whatever it is you do.