calais to nurbergring

[monty]

hiya all.

me and my mates are going to go to the nurbergring next year

Ive had a look at the map and it seems the e40 goes all the way to germany. it may be a bit longer but has anyone actually done this route

what other routes have people taken

it seems to confusing over there as they put 2 road names up like e412 and e40 together and it gets very confusing.

any tips

cheers
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[alec_h]

Haven't done it myself, but I think my stratergy would be to do a town to town route rather than Calais to Nurbergring.

i.e. Calais to Bruxelles, Bruxelles to Leverkusen etc. That is by no way my recommended route, just my recommended method
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[Jumile]

I've not done it myself, but I'm doing some planning along those lines too - and I agree with alec's sentiment. Here's a couple of options, using ViaMichelin's "Recommended routing" option:

• Dover-Calais-Nurburgring via Bruges, Brussells, Liege, etc: 269 miles (4h47m)
  
• Harwich-Hook of Holland-Nurburgring via Eindhoven, Venlo, etc: 220 miles (3h42m)

Personally, I'd favour an easy route using Harwich, Hook of Holland with perhaps a side-trip to Amsterdam, Nijmegen, then either Eindhoven-Aachen or Venlo-Monchengladbach-Cologne/Bonn to Nurburg. The Aachen route takes you through the High Fens, which should break up the major road grind. Plenty of historic places in the area, too (Remagen, Maastricht, etc).

You could even dodge all the big places in favour of the smaller towns. Depends on whether you want to "express it" to Nurburgring or see the intervening lands you're travelling through.
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[Ant]

i think thats the way we went (say think because i was doing 160 most of the way keeping up) takes around 5 hours and is very boring!
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[Nb]

We went this way to our hotel near the ring, the motorway bits were beyond boring. https://fyad.org/wbbm
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[MattEMulsion]

I've done the E40 pretty much all of the way from Calais to the general area of the Nurburgring. It is a long boring ride but dead easy to navigate.

You can take a ferry to Rotterdam and ride down to the Ring from there which is a shorter route but if you sail to Rotterdam it normally involves two overnight ferry crossings (one each way) and not only does this increase the length of your overall trip, but the ferries aren't exactly cheap.

It is certainly possible to get from the Midlands here to the Nurburgring in one day, without it being as excessively long day.
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[Phoenix]

Only took the E40 as far as Brussells where I turned off towards Luxembourg rather than carrying on to Leige. Not much to say, it's a motorway and it's toll free, bit round Brussells can be busy but easy to navigate. Just follow place names aswell as just road names, Brussells is posted all the way from Dunkerque, then Leige etc

[D O G]

See this thread, for routes and a bit of extra info.

You are total bastards for going, it is utterly awesome!

[Jumile]

For those who are unaware, my understanding is that E-routes cover all of Europe (and some of Central Asia) - using motorways and A-roads - and pay little heed to natural or bureaucratic borders. UK and Eire major roads have E-numbers, too - they're just not signposted (who knew?). The E5 route goes from Glasgow to Algeciras. If the number is EVEN then it's an east/west route, and if the number is ODD then it's an north/south route. More on this here and here.

Seems like a great idea to me. Just a shame some countries obstinately refuse to play ball, causing needless confusion for people coming from or going to those countries. But, I guess that's what we do whenever possible when it comes to Europe...
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[Nick__C]

Me and my friend were planning something along these lines next year once we're driving/riding.

Except we we're planning on going upto Hull then catch the ferry to Belgium then up into amsterdam ^_^ then down to germany....
good luck(Y)

[carlnicholson...]

I had a look at a route a while back but just couldn't afford it.

I was going to do any route through France, Belgium, Luxembourg then Germany, just to say I'd done 5 countries in one day! Might be as bit of a pain of a route but an interesting claim to be able to make!!
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