The trips
Six dossiers, newest first.
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The 2027 plan · Würzburg route
Frankfurt → Bruges → Ghent → Bamberg → Sokolov → Plzeň → Kout na Šumavě → Maxlrain → Andechs → Munich → Nuremberg → Frankfurt
Two nights in Bruges, two in Bamberg, both Czech brewing towns and a night in a Franconian castle brewery, with the long Ghent → Bamberg day split at Würzburg. The route this archive has been building towards.
15 days14 nights2,306 km driving
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Franconia, Bohemia and the Alps
Frankfurt → Merkendorf → Plzeň → České Budějovice → Bad Reichenhall → Munich
Three nights in a village brewery, two with Budvar, three under the Watzmann with Salzburg across the border, then four in Munich.
16 days13 nights1,406 km driving
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Franconia, Bohemia and Advent
Frankfurt → Memmelsdorf → Plzeň → České Budějovice → Berchtesgaden → Munich
Late November: Christmas markets opening, brewery tours half empty, and the other Budweiser in its home town.
16 days13 nights1,062 km driving
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Bamberg to the Allgäu
Frankfurt → Bamberg → Nuremberg → Essing → Traunstein → Schönram → Berchtesgaden → Nesselwang → Missen-Wilhams → Munich
Village breweries and two nights sleeping above the brewhouse, then a week in Munich at the end of October.
18 days16 nights1,561 km driving
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The first European loop
Munich → Bamberg → Düsseldorf → La Trappe → Antwerp → Brussels → Bruges → Westvleteren → Chimay → Zwiefaltendorf → Munich
The trip that started it: Altbier, Trappists, lambic, and a Swabian village brewery on the Danube on the way home.
17 days14 nights2,089 km driving
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Munich by rail
Munich · Andechs · Aying · Bamberg
The first one, and the only one without a car: nine nights in one hotel, with day returns to a monastery, a village brewery and a Rauchbier town.
10 days9 nights730 km by rail
Drafted, not yet walked
Six routes built from research rather than memory.
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