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Originally Posted by Tainen
Dackelone the BMW-routes.com website does not seem to load anymore.
I've got a may euro delivery for an M2 Comp that is being ordered here soon... but am having a hard time planning the trip. Never been to germany. some thoughts.
-wife would like to see the Austrian town where they filmed sound of music
-swiss alps sound fantastic
-maybe see the rhein and some castles?
-maybe see a concentration camp museum?
-maybe check out the nurburgring
I can kinda see a route forming in my head if I do these in that order, clockwise circling around munich for 7 days. is that an ok itinerary? we're ok with lots of driving, we love road trips.
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Humm... looks like BMW Routes is now offline. Not sure when they took it down. But I will try and help you plan your ED tour.
I would say try to drive less than 200 kms per day.
The drive from Munich to Salzburg(where the Sound of Music was filmed) is only an hour and half away. Buy your Austrian Vignette at any German gas station on the Autobahn BEFORE you cross the border. Go up to the Salzburg Castle(Fortress) at sunset or night... its spectacular! Take the venicular up to the castle.
The Salzburg castle is called:
Festung Hohensalzburg
You can take a train up the side of the mountain to get up to the fortress here...
Festungsbahn Salzburg
https://www.google.de/maps/place/Fes....0460729?hl=en
This biergarten(
Restaurant Stiegl-Keller) is quite nice just a short walk up the street from the bahn starting point up to the castle.
Restaurant Stiegl-Keller
https://www.google.de/maps/place/Res....0472866?hl=en
In Salzburg there is the AWESOME RedBull Hangar-7...
https://www.google.de/maps/place/Han....0073619?hl=en
Its free to enter and they have a amazing restaurant on the second level there too. Be sure to go to the restrooms downstairs!! You will understand when you go there!
Just outside of Salzburg is a small family run museum called
Manro Classic Auto Museum. Its a cool cute museum or cars and music rock and roll. But IF I had to only choose one car museum in Salzburg... go to
Hanger 7!
Manro Classic Auto & Musik Museum...
https://www.google.de/maps/place/Man....1604624?hl=en
Take a look at this thread of mine...
Places to visit near Munich while on ED...
https://f80.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh....php?t=1170588
I think you will find many ideas in the above thread. Just let me know if you have any other question.
Nurburgring is about five and half hours drive from Munich. As for the Rhein river... yeah sure... but I prefer the Mosel river... less crowded and much more beautiful. I'd say IF you drive up to the Ring... near Mayen is the town of Cochem... drive into Cochem and them drive South direction Trier(the oldest Roman city in Germany I think). The Mosel is great for wine and castles - but very flat roads. The back roads around the Ring are just awesome. There was once an active volcano(now not!) in this Eifel area. That is why for the many nice roads.
Concentration camp museum(Germans call them "KZ" lagger)... near Munich is the (im)famous
Dachau. There are many other concentration museums around Germany. Near Dachau is the Oberschleissheim Musuem & Castle next door. It's part of the Deutsches Museum and they house the world of Aviation in Oberschleissheim. It's quite cool if you are into aviation. I;ve covered it in my ED Museum thread bellow.
Also check out my
ED Museum thread here...
Dackel's European Delivery Museum Guide
https://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=494657
Personally I would skip the drive up to the Ring... and I would concentrate on driving around Salzburg and Austria and Northern Italy or Tirol area. Sourthern Germany is just AWESOME!! Drive for the day in Switzerland... but that country is so damn expensive... stay the night in Italy or Austria. The Swiss are crazy with their speeding fines too!
Dackel