I will start by Eurostar and go home by ferry to the UK. Priorities are food, wine, beer, etc, and I will be mainly camping. Anyone done a similar route? Any bits to skip, bits I'm missing? Any details I might be missing?
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I will start by Eurostar and go home by ferry to the UK. Priorities are food, wine, beer, etc, and I will be mainly camping. Anyone done a similar route? Any bits to skip, bits I'm missing? Any details I might be missing?
by Advanced-Key-6327
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You go around Morvan, I have never been there myself but from what I have heard it must be beautiful. Would definitely incorporate that.
Generally, I would incorporate all the parc naturels you see on the map 🙂
Enjoy!
The west coast is really beatiful to skip in my opinion 🙂
Nothing to offer but I wanna join you for this!
Just commenting on the distance. For 6 weeks, it would be around 50 km per day. Every day.
Sounds plausible and, yes, somewhat relaxed.
That’s for 6*7 = 42 days. Your average would of course go up, if you’d stay somewhere for multiple days.
But, then again, with only 50 km per day, it’s easy to make up “missed days” (as far as average is concerned), by doing a bit more on other days.
I was biking in the Grand Est, and I warn you that it’s a bit empty and boring. You could skip that by train if you wanted.
Check out the Vennbahn along the German, Belgian, Luxembourg border. I was there in August and it was A+.
That whole part of Belgium south of Brussels is run down and nasty. I was there and regretted it. Lots of abandoned industrial warehouses.
Good on you for avoiding Paris. It’s a nice city but hard to bike in or out of.
Not sure if you already did, but try to incorporate as many red routes from the [OpenCycleMap](https://www.opencyclemap.org/) as possible. In France, those are generally well thought out.
A personal recommendation from me is to incorporate the the EV5 and EV6 through Strasbourg, Colmar, Mulhouse and Besancon. It’s full of vineyards, romantic villages and deep river valleys.
Personally, i like to bike more distance per day than that, but I realize that everyone has different interests and priorities.
If this is your first long trip, id have some possible detours planned in case you find the miles passing quickly. You could keep going north to the Netherlands before dropping down to Belgium (assuming the end point is predetermined)