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Long Response Posted by EGD [Email]  (#663) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from EGD) on Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:22:11
In Reply to: Dublin to Switzerland......, Mike Lynch [Profile/Gallery]
, Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:36:12
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Some of my route info may be dated since I did most of these routes in the 80s and 90s.
Skip the idea of returning through the Pyranees / Northern Spain. Both areas are spectacular but they really are another trip entirely. In other words, try to slow down a bit and enjoy the trip. If you try to do too much you may end up seeing nothing at all, etc.
I assume you're not spending much time in Paris (it's worth months of visiting all by itself). Either way, at some point you have to traverse France to reach Bern.
1st Suggestion(s) to Bern: Enter France at Le Havre and take a sweep just north of Paris. Perhaps, LeHavre - Rouen- Compiegne - Reims - Verdun - Nancy - Colmar - Mulhouse - Basel (CH) and then Bern. You get some WWI battlefields, and some beautiful wine country in Alsace. Or you could go a bit further south through Champagne like so: LeHavre - Rouen - Compiegne - Troyes - Reims - Dijon - Besancon - Neuchatel (CH) - Bern.
2nd Suggestion to Bern --
Enter France through Cherbourg, and then go on an arc south of Paris as follows: Cherbourg - Bayeux / Omaha Beach - LeMans - Blois / Loire River Valley chateaux - Auxerre - Dijon - Besancon - Neuchatel (CH) - Bern.
From Bern to Garmisch-Partenkirchen you might go like this: Bern - Interlaken - Chur - Davos - Landeck (Austria) and then to G-P from the south. You could even go into Italy from Davos to Merano and then up to Innsbruck and then G-P. That route is spectacular.
If you want more of Germany, go Bern - Luzern - Lindau (Germany) and pick up the Deutsche Alpenstrasse just east of there all the way to Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Once in G-P, I recommend taking the train to the top of the Zugspitze (go early as it'll cloud up in the afternoon in the summer), or continue on the Alpenstr. to Berchtesgaden (Germany) and Salzburg (Austria).
For your retun to Dublin, you could do a broad sweep including northern Italy like so: G-P - Innsbruck - Merano (IT) - Como - Torino - Grenoble (FR) - Le Puy - Perigeux (Dordogne region) - La Rochelle - Nantes - Quimper - Roscoff. You can get a ferry from Roscoff to Rosslare (or at least you could before). This route will take you across some beautiful areas of France, and will give you a good look at Brittany and France's Atlantic beaches.
Enjoy your trip!
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