[welshwizard]

I'm doing this journey in two stretches next week on my way to Munich

I'm taking the Hull-Zeebrugge ferry and arriving in Belgium on a Friday morning I intend on arriving in Munich on the satureday afternoon.

Does anyone have any recommendations which is the best overall route to take?

 

[MartinR]

Originally posted by WelshWizard:
[qb]I'm doing this journey in two stretches next week on my way to Munich [/qb][/b]

Not done Munich but I have done Stuttgart although it was via Calais. However, I guess the route from Belgium south is similar. I just hit the main autobahns via the outsikirts of Frankfurt. No particular problems apart from a few roadworks which were a bit scary in a LHD Mercedes S-Class due to the narrow lanes

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[sgould]

Well, you are starting in the wrong place

If you're on your own and needing to simplify the navigation, I would have gone to the Hook instead and out through Arnhem so you could follow the A3 to Nuremburg and then the A9 to Munich.

However..

Brussels - Aachen - Cologne gets you back on that route. The A3 is the M1 of Germany and it's 2 lanes in places and can get very slow, especially between Frankfurt and Wurzburg.

If you want a more scenic route, that's not too slow, you could try Brussels - Namur - Luxemburg and then either of two routes.

A31 to Metz - A4 (toll) to north of Strasbourg - A35 - across the Rhein - A5 to Karlsruhe and then the A8 to Munich.

or

Luxembourg - Trier - A1 - A62 - A6 to Ludwigshafen then down under Mannheim and Hockenheim and the A5 south to Karlsruhe and the A8 to Munich. Probably not best on your own 'cos there's lots of route changes.

I would expect the Luxembourg - Metz - Strasbourg route to have the least traffic, if only because the French are too mean to pay tolls

This is the way I would go.

When we go to Landsberg am Lech (our twin town west of Munich) we go across the channel to Calais and use the French autoroute A26 - A4 to Strasbourg and pay the toll just for the relaxation of having a drive on a motorway with very little traffic.

 

[welshwizard]

Thanks Will

 

[burre]

If you go the way down from Trier on A62, you'll come within less than a 5 minute drive from my place. If you'd like, you can come this route and I can meet you for a lunch break on the way. Let me know if you make this choice and I'll pm you some more info. But yes, the French route will probably have less traffic.

 

[welshwizard]

That'll be great Eric, thanks. I leave the Ferry at 9am on Friday morning. Alas, I will be in the 'other' car though...

 

[burre]

I should have Friday off from work. I'll find out for sure Monday and ler you know. If you leave the Ferry at 9 am, I forsee you getting into Germany around 2 PM or so. I'll look at the route you'd be taking and see if I can think of a good place to meet.

 

[welshwizard]

I will be staying in Karlsruhe on Friday evening, PM me if you would still like to meet up Eric.