It's time to take to the road with this selection of stunning handpicked trips throughout France and Germany. The trips are suitable for campervanners, motorcaravanners, long-distance cyclists basically anyone on a set of wheels, especially those who like to go camping, wild or otherwise (although details of finding alternative accommodation are also included). Whether you're a novice motorcaravanner or experienced road tripper, solo adventurer or family group, these self-guided tours will provide the inspiration to set out and explore as slowly and leisurely as you like the less obvious regions of France and Germany. There are routes of all distances, from day/weekend trips of no more than 30 or 40 miles to routes of 1,000 miles and more for those enjoying a longer holiday. Collectively these routes explore the very best scenery that France and Germany offer from coastal views and mountains, forests and national parks, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, vineyards, lakesides and riverbanks, islands (including parking up and visiting car-free islands), to pastoral idylls, wilderness and vibrant cities brimming with architectural heritage. No end of adventures await! Travel the Route Napoléon (France's first ever signposted route following Napoleon's trek through the Alps on his return from exile) or the Bertha Benz Memorial Route (named for the wife of inventor Carl Benz and the first person ever to make a long-distance road trip). Explore the Gorges du Verdon, the Grand Canyon of France, visit Dorgogne's annual Strawberry Festival, or walk into Poland along an eight-mile seaside promenade at the seaside resort of Heringsdorf. Packed with practical advice, tempting photographs and inspirational itineraries, Camping Road Trips: France & Germany is the essential handbook to your European adventure.

Autorentext

Caroline Mills is an experienced travel writer, and has spent a lifetime camping, caravanning and motorcaravanning. Her travels in a motorhome have taken her extensively throughout the UK and mainland Europe, from Portugal and southern Spain to the Baltic States, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Russia. For the past twenty years most of these European camping road trips have been either alone or companioned by her three young children, often wild camping.

Caroline writes extensively on the subject of camping, caravanning, campervans and motorhomes. She contributes regularly to magazines, national newspapers and websites in the UK and abroad, such as Practical Motorhome, Practical Caravan, Camping & Caravanning and Discover Touring, of which she is the freelance editor. She is author of The Camping Pocket Bible and Cool Caravanning.

Zusammenfassung
Handpicked road trips in France, Germany for campers, caravan, motorhome, cyclists. Inspirational self-guided tours. Includes the Route Napoléon, the Bertha Benz Memorial Route, the Gorges du Verdon, Route des Vins d'Alsace, Alpine Road.

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Introduction

How to use this guide

FRANCE

1 Channel Hopping

2 Turkey Twizzlers

3 Carousing at the Carnival

4 In the Footsteps of the Fallen

5 The Land that Time Forgot

6 Searching for Cider

7 Coasting the Atlantic

8 Le Jardin Français

9 All Calm in the Land of Fizz

10 Free France

11 From Water to Wine

12 Gardens Galoire

13 Mustard & More

14 Chasing Waves: To Bayonne & Beyond

15 Driving me in Seine

16 Romance of a River

17 Seeing Red

18 France’s Grand Canyon

19 Provender in Provence

20 The Flight of the Eagle

21 Basque in the Pic of the Pyrenees

22 Twin Peaks

GERMANY

23 From Port to Resort

24 By George, it’s Germany!

25 An Eifel Lot to See

26 Mannheim & Woman

27 Musical Interlude: The Harmony of Forest Bathing

28 European Union

29 A Natural Quartet

30 The Alpine Road

Index