Can I hire a Defender in Germany?

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Originally Posted by OLD

Thanks Carlos - will certainly be contacting Hans. I'm hoping that his English is better than my German...

Regards

Martin

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Most of the Germans you meet will have English better than your English.

Just to back up what Manic is saying - I've lived in Germany three times in total, the first time in the south, second and third times in the west near the Dutch border.

The south is by far and away the prettiest area. If you started somewhere like Baden Baden, go south through the Black Forest, into Switzerland, head east into Austria, then loop back north into southern Germany, you'd see the best of the scenery and is doable in 2 weeks. The whole area is stunning, lots of mountainous areas with little lakes everywhere, pretty little villages and seemingly a Schloss on every peak.

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Originally Posted by Dougal

Most of the Germans you meet will have English better than your English.

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In the cities and tourist areas, yes. Not so much off the beaten track.

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Originally Posted by manic

Forget the Autobahn and huge distances, with two weeks you could do a loop around south Germany, Switzerland, Austria - by shortest route on all the little byways!

I did it in a 200tdi with a chinese sat nav. We asked our often ridiculed sat nav to take us from Zurich to Hohenschwangau near Füssen (chitty bang bang castle) on the shortest route. And I tell you, some of the roads and scenery it took us along were just incredible.

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I found Hohenschwangau a bit boring, especially for the entry price. Neuschwannstein however was well and truely worth it.

I went in the middle of winter, the scenery was amazing, but the German wood-piles even more so. The forest everwhere was littered with perfect stacks of wood all of graded size and cut to matching length and neatly stacked for drying.
The Bavarians take their winter preparation seriously. The ones that didn't froze to death centuries ago.

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Originally Posted by sheerluck

Just to back up what Manic is saying - I've lived in Germany three times in total, the first time in the south, second and third times in the west near the Dutch border.

The south is by far and away the prettiest area. If you started somewhere like Baden Baden, go south through the Black Forest, into Switzerland, head east into Austria, then loop back north into southern Germany, you'd see the best of the scenery and is doable in 2 weeks. The whole area is stunning, lots of mountainous areas with little lakes everywhere, pretty little villages and seemingly a Schloss on every peak.

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Thanks Dave :thumbsup: For no particular reason, the south appeals to us. We'll work on route that way once we know where the 'must attend' family party is being held.

Regards

Martin

No problem Martin.

Let us know when you've got your start point organised, and I'll see if I can pass on any other places to visit.

After writing my post above, I went on a trip down memory lane. I went looking for pictures of my times over there, and found an old one of my school
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...013/06/979.jpg

This was taken about 40 years before I got there though! Part of it was a monastery that dated to the early 17th century, and was our Maths block.