Scenic route to the Nurburgring?

[jdwoodbury]

I am off to the ring for the 1st time in May, would prefer a scenic ride rather than trudge down the motorway. I am going on the bike leaving Calais 1st thing in the morning, can anyone advise on a good route to take that is do-able in a day leaving time for rest/fuel stops? I would suggest 500 miles absolute max...

[Johno]

We're using a variation from Ben Lovejoy's site . . . I have it as an .itn file for Tomtom if you want a copy then PM me . . . We've planned tje 'more enjoyable outbound route' at the bottom of the page.

Sceinc'ish route to ring

Edited by Johno on Tuesday 17th February 22:06

[jdwoodbury]

Thanks, very useful that

[Chris71]

Whatever you do, make sure you take the road from Adenau up to the 'ring. It's superb. In fact, most of the road from Adenau right out to the E40 is pretty good.

[handpaper]

Chris71 said:

Whatever you do, make sure you take the road from Adenau up to the 'ring. It's superb. In fact, most of the road from Adenau right out to the E40 is pretty good.

B257, awesome drive. I camp in Kelberg on 'Ring trips so I do it almost every day

[RobM77]

We always take my sat nav's "shortest route" from Spa to the ring. There's some amazing roads and it only takes about 5 minutes longer than the motorway route. It's very sat nav dependent though, as we tried it on my mate's Tom Tom and it took us down a tiny thin lane! I'll never forget the look on this tractor driver's face as he came round the corner to find a groundhugging jet black NSX blocking the entire road

I've always enjoyed that route though - it's worth finding on a map.

[sider]

One tip this summer.

I know it's not much - but it all helps!

We're going to Perpignan this year in the wife's bus - and rather than do the £75 Dover to Calais return with P&O, we got a £49 return with Norfolkline from Dover to Dunkerque.

It's only about 3 miles different - but all helps - and that £25 saved will get us a few extra bottles of plonk on the way back!!