18-08-2017, 10:26 PM
(18-08-2017, 08:10 PM)Andrew Fallon Wrote:(18-08-2017, 05:01 PM)Steve Jones Wrote:(18-08-2017, 04:42 PM)Ruairidh Dunford Wrote: Thanks Brian - I love an excuse to buy a good map!
I think Brian and I are talking about slightly different map books, Ruairidh. I think Brian's will be the 1:150,000 version. Mine is the larger scale 1:100,000 version with even more detail. As I understood it when I got mine, the 1:100,000 version was only available to ANWB members although that was a few years ago. No doubt Andrew will put me right if that's not the case.
Whatever, try and get the largest scale (and most up to date) map you can, particularly for Holland. The common ones at 1:200,000, 1:300,000, 1:500,000 scale and are the best part of useless for the sort of roads you'll be looking for. You can get individual sheets at a big scale made for cyclists but you'd need a big box to carry them all in
Steve
The ANWB 1:100.000 road map is available to members (€16.50) and non-members (€17.50) alike.
I think that the route through Germany could be good as an alternative to France. The German "Landstrassen" are excellently surfaced, relatively lightly used & often subject to 8okmh speed limits so less popular with the natives! Holland is a bit of a minefield...the Dutch A7 club may have some advice...it certainly is very busy & many towns have the centres closed & pedestrianized which plays havoc with non up to date sat navs! This summer I went through Holland, Germany & France in a 1955 ZA Magnette - which was ok on the Autobahnen at 70-75- but finding our way round Holland after landing at the Hook was "interesting". It all depends where you can cross to!
David