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[Orchid288]

Hi we are off on our annual road trip and this year we have a dilemma as someone has given us a last minute thought, do we:

Ardeche, France and surrounding areas which is our normal holiday
Go through Germany, not been before, are they dog friendly etc as we have our dog with us.
Mix and match do a bit of both

Be interested in your experiences, I will put the same post on the France posts

Thanks in advance.

 

[mitzimad]

probably more dog friendly than france we could have taken our dog into the theme parks

 

[peterc10]

If you have been to the Ardeche, why go there again? Germany is very motorhome friendly with excellent Stellplatz (equivalent to Aires). See lots of Germans with dogs in their motorhomes so doesn't appear to be a problem. Why not try the Moselle or Rhine valleys or both if you have the time?

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[Chris]

I always recommend avoiding France

 

[hilldweller]

Go through Germany, not been before, are they dog friendly etc as we have our dog with us.

Germany is The Real Deal. Quality campsites, quality food, quality beer, quality wine. And quality sights to see.

Dogs are fine, they make wurst out of them and then you can really enjoy your dog.

 

[suavecarve]

We ve just done provence and ardeche for 6 weeks and spent the last 10 days in black forest rhine and just about to leave the moselle towards holland.
Our plan for September was the islands around the vendee.
Halfway round our first lidls shop in germany having already seen the diesel prices we are coming back to Germany.
The food shopping is substantially cheaper in Germany.
Probably going to try eastern germany

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[The Dudess]

Can thoroughly recommend the Moselle. Beautiful surroundings, inexpensive fabulous stellplatz and very, very dog friendly. We found that whenever we went to a bar or restaurant they would ask if the dog wanted a bowl of water before asking us what we wanted. They are even allowed on the boats which cruise the river. Can also recommend the Black Forest. We stayed here - great dog walking area.

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[jumartoo]

We've just travelled up the north west German coast heading for Denmark. There were many dog friendly beaches with clear signing.

We're on a Stellplatz on a marina at a place called Wackerballig at the moment. €14 with leccy, emptying facilities and toilets.

We're off to a lakeside Stellplatz at Sörup later today €10 all in.

 

[peterc10]

If you think Germany is cheap for diesel you are will love Luxembourg.

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[David and Sally]

Germany any day. Mosel. Go fill yer boots with everything magnificent.

 

[tacr2man]

Germany , after experiencing you wont bother with France , worth going via Luxembourg if you have decent sized tank Mosel is an easy start , stellplatze every 10 miles or less nice facilities and good VFM .

 

[Garfields]

All the above are fibbing to you
Germany is horrible, horrible, horrible

I keep tell people this and do they listen ? do they heck
I just keep going to prove its not nice.

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[Garfields]

As an aside anyone done the Alpine Strasse ?
Think that may be on the cards this year if the weather holds up

 

[Riverbankannie]

As an aside anyone done the Alpine Strasse ?
Think that may be on the cards this year if the weather holds up

We touched in and out of it this year, but found that it was easier going on the main road. It would only be worth doing in very good weather as you would only do it for the views and those mountain tops are obscured if there is any cloud.
Lots of good places to visit along the German Austria/ Switzerland border and we enjoyed it.

 

[Riverbankannie]

Hi we are off on our annual road trip and this year we have a dilemma as someone has given us a last minute thought, do we:

Ardeche, France and surrounding areas which is our normal holiday
Go through Germany, not been before, are they dog friendly etc as we have our dog with us.
Mix and match do a bit of both

Be interested in your experiences, I will put the same post on the France posts

Thanks in advance.

Do try Germany. Get an emissions sticker (we were stopped at a police roadblock down near the Swiss border and our sticker checked even though we were not anywhere near a city) and take extra cash as often cards not accepted at campsites.
Edit
I got my sticker from here
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You can collect one in person from one of their service centres for 6€ but I paid the extra to get one sent so I didn’t have the bother, was cheaper a few years ago but now 15€ and includes postage and allow you to pay by card.
Someone else might know of a better (cheaper) way ?

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[Garfields]

This one should be cheaper

Online-Antrag Feinstaubplakette - Berlin.de

www.berlin.de

Came within a week

 

[suavecarve]

As an aside anyone done the Alpine Strasse ?
Think that may be on the cards this year if the weather holds up

Did most of the alpinestrabbe last year. Went from salzburg area to fussen where we caught the (imho) bit of a let down romantic road as far as augsberg.
Definitely worth the alpinestrabbe. Highlights apart from the road were king ludwigs castles chiemsee fussen and a series of stunning lakes coming out of Berchtesgaden.
I dont know that paying to enter the 3 castles for 50 odd euros each was that good a value. They tell you the same story at each one. If i had to plumpnfor one it would be on chiemsee where you take a boat to the island. Good day out on the boats and an imitation versailles hall of mirrors