Hi Forum, Sorry Ive not been on for ages, and missed you, but am back and after some comments please re our planned trip in a couple weeks time to San Marino and back for the GP... We have a week to get there, three nights in San Marino, and a week to get home. Was thinking Belgium Germany Austria down possibly and France home, but no itinerary what so ever. Sailing out & back from Dover. Switzerland expensive to ride? Prefer little toll road usage Don't mind a long day in the saddle (me and the mrs - both on blades of course) Thank you - Cant wait for your thoughts - I know theres a few experts out there Martin p.s. photos promised this year - sorry I failed miserably with a report last year - lots of excuses.....
That sounds an epic trip - similar time to me going to mugello for MotoGP a few years ago. I would go down via Austria and the Dolomites into Italy and back via Swiss alps taking in some passes. Germany always been good, I know a few can give you really good routes down / up through Germany - from Calais head via Belgium and you avoid tolls! The Sylveretta Pass in Austria is good, Arabba in Dolomites great place to overnight on way down. Zell am See / Kaprun good base and GrossGlokner pass good stop off point on way to Dolomites - don't laugh but for planning I often get a big map and use small post it notes with each night on them, and move them round to get a rough route, then use google maps to check distances / times and get advice to tweak it to what you want.
I've just got from my annual Alpine tour... but I envy you already Ok, how about: Calais - Luxembourg - Kaiserslautern -route 48 (great!) to Baden-Baden - epic B500 down to Schluchsee - Lake Konstanz - Fussen (Neuschwanstein Castle!) - back to Austrian Alsp, go to Solden and via epic Timmelsjoh Pass, which you can double with San Leonardo Pass - up to Vipiteno and down via SS508 route - down to Bolzano - next SS42 and SS43 to Molveno and finally Lake Garda. From there it is only 3 hours drive to San Marino I did this route last year, it was brilliant
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/C...82342010!2m2!1d12.457777!2d43.94236!3e0?hl=en Got no idea if that will work, but not typing it in lol Its a very rough route, not fully planned out and it goes a bit weird round Austria but gives you an idea, you will also see the Dolomite's which are simply stunning, then on the way home go over the Swiss Alps maybe via Andermatt?
I'm not sure if you mean the route I have proposed... Anyway, I don't have it as a google map, but a far better option is to use the Tyre software to create your own trip (using Google maps) and download it to your satnav (Tomtom or Garmin). That's what I do every time, as otherwsie you might have a perfect route planned using Google maps... and a hell of the trouble to 'plan' it on your own satnav.
I'm gutted to learn that Tyre is not supported by Mac - I wasn't told that when I handed over my hard earnt - btw nor did I ask!
