Routes / Europe: Bavaria Tour
« on: August 02, 2007, 11:33:36 pm »i am not very familiar with bavaria nor the other countries you are going to visit. While you are riding I ll be somewhere between Glacier NP and Yellowstone.
However, if I can be of any assistance during preparation let me know. You might consider to give Tschechia a visit on your bavaria trip never been ther ebut heard a lot of good stuff. Otherwise I recommend the german railwaysystem www.bahn.de. Its rather good, fast and allows you to skip less interesting parts and be more mobile. You can take your bike on any regional trains (there might be a low fee, I am not sure if that applies in bavaria but I ll find out if you are interested) called Regionalbahn RB, or Regionalexpress RE the latters ones are running express while RB stops in every village. There are Intercitys IC which require reservation to be mmade for bikes. ICEs unfortunately do not take any bikes.
Also helpful might be the german youthhostel organisation www.djh.de which have a dense network of hostels. However, nowadays many are almost hotels and thus more expensive...
Jan