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What about contacting a Tet linesman,?
i will also ask on Ukgsers..

crumbles wrote:

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What about contacting a Tet linesman,?
i will also ask on Ukgsers..

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could leave the van with my mate near rendsburg. for a few beer tokens and go to the viking days show...

it'll give you a feel for it all

www.wikingertage.de

One free tip. Many of the small roads are not shown on some maps.

ADAC do a Road map set for about £15, which come in a pack, covering the whole of Germany. Get it.

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Germany on a set of 20 double-sided road maps at 1:200,000 from ADFC the equivalent of Britains AA. Cartography is the same as in MairDumonts perennially popular Marco Polo series at the same scale, but presented in a smaller format and with more prominent highlighting of interesting locations. The set is supplied in sturdy zipped pouch with also includes a separate booklet containing an index. Each map covers two numbers shown on our coverage image (1+2. 3+6, 4+5, 7+11, 8+9, 10+14, 12+13, 15+18, 16+17 and 19+20) conveniently combining adjoining regions.

The maps boldly stress main roads and motorways in strong colours and main towns in large letters, but also show minor roads and villages in considerable detail. Road information includes toll roads, traffic restrictions and seasonal closures, gradient marking for steep roads, scenic routes, border checkpoints with restrictions, etc. Motorway services clearly indicate types of facilities available there. Railway network includes narrow gauge and tourist lines, and indicates car-loading terminal. Ferry connections show passenger only or car transport with, where appropriate, seasonal dates. Picturesque towns and natural areas of interest are prominently highlighted in contracting colours. Other tourist information includes campsites and youth hostels, various landmarks, ADFC offices, etc. The maps are particularly good for identifying geographical features: mountain and hill chains, valleys, national parks, etc, Latitude and longitude grid is drawn at intervals of 10'. An index for all 20 maps is in a separate 71-page booklet. Map legend, conveniently shown on both sides, is in German and English.
I think mine was about £8, bought years ago on a whim in a petrol station somewhere in Germany. It has proved invaluable.

Currently listed as out of stock in Stanfords but here it is, so Trevs mate will know what to look for.....

www.stanfords.co.uk/germany-..._9783826460548

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The TRF bods could play around in this:

www.ukgser.com/forums/showth...ouring-Germany


Hopefully this thread will show the bods from TRF how much there is out there but you have to spend a bit of time and imagination finding it. There is no off-the-shelf This is the best way go go from Kiel to the Baltic States (via Denmark???) and back again in an unknown number of days. Not least, the north Germany coast is not the most popular destination for blokes on motorbikes from England and the Baltic States even less so. The Alps, Black Forest and Harz are much more popular, not least as they are nearer and are not written off as Flat and boring, mate.

There is lots to see and do, all along the Baltic coast, into Poland, then into the Baltic States and, not least, coming back again...... and you aint even touched Denmark. To get them started, ask them to surf around in the German / Baltic sub-sections. They might do worse than stitching together some of the ready made routes, to at least look at them on a decent map. Then thy can fine tune them to suit. Will they be perfect? Who knows, not least as none of us know anything about Trevor and his friend. If they have a week to get there and back, then they had better get their skates on. If they have a month or more, then they are really cooking on gas.

Devon trf,help needed please.
Yup, you can spend days anywhere, ripping up the turnip fields or chilling with like minds...... but eventually, you have to get to the Baltic States and back again, apparently.

Heres some possible ideas of ways to maybe go from Kiel to the top of the Baltic States, ripped from assorted posts and threads in the travel sections of UKGSer. I have tried to put them into some sort of sequence.


















And a couple I found lying around:







The last one is maybe interesting as it suggests coming back by ferry. Bods often forget that they have to come back from places, too.

Here is something knocked together in under two minutes in Kurviger, doing nothing more than putting five place names in sequence, on my iPad. Its 2,000 km which, if nothing else, highlights the challenges set when somebody asks, Tell me how to go on little roads, with things to see and do and places to stay. Youd pay a lot of money (rip off, mate) to someone to organise that for you.





kurv.gr/GQbeB


I think the pair of them could make that lot into a pretty good tour but they will need to:

A. Make a bit of effort and apply some imagination. They know themselves and what they want, way better than anyone else. Time is definitely on their side in the planning department.

B. Get some paper maps, particularly if they intend to take small roads. Using Google maps and ViaMichelin or some of the assorted Tell me how to go from A to B software like Kurviger is great but theyll maybe not have their PC with them all the way. Paper maps, some paper and a pencil will not let them down, trust me on that.

C. Work out how long they have got A to B and back to A again. The more time they have, the more they can do, if they want to do it.

It would be great if they could share what they plan to do and what they finally did. UKGSer is free (or just £12) and its given them some help. Some reciprocity goes a long way in this section.

One last suggestion.

Tour organisers sometimes put maps of the tours they organise (and charge for, the absolute ****s) and sometimes just about enough details for anyone to work out where they must be going and staying.

Heres an example. It has a basic map, whilst the blurb tells you enough (in a foreign language, because that is what they speak but I dont) to all but recreate it.

www.schnieder-reisen.de/reis...as-baltikum-3/

Heres another. You can pretty quickly see that there is one all but preferred route to get across the three Bsltic countries, within the time period constraints.

kearider.com/motorcycle-bike...ticstates.html

Google something like: Kiel to Tallinn Motorrad or just about any similar combination of words. Then surf about. Its free and they cant touch you for it.