Four Romantics on the Romantischer Strasse
After a very successful tour from St Malo to Montpelier three years ago ( Manche 2 Med ) and last year's sweep across Southern France from Nice and over the Pyrenees to Barcelona, our courageous couples needed a destination. Although we really enjoyed Northern Spain the restaurants have such late opening times that it isn't really compatible with tandem Touring. Verity had fancied the Romantischer Strasse on Southern Germany ever since we visited the fairytale walled town of Rothenberg ob der Tauber. The route goes South and ends up at the fairytale castles of Mad King Ludwig. From there we could join the Via Claudia Augusta - a cycle route following a Roman route over the Alps into Italy. We could get flights to Frankfurt with a return from Venice - a couple of nights booked at the beginning and a few nights at the end close to the airport and (we hope) a source of cardboard boxes to repack the tandems. Everything else we can invent as we go.