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Colditz Castle Trip Plan 2021


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After the 2019 aborted attempted due to an overheating bike with an F1 error light as well, this years plan buggered due to the Virus apocalypse, 2021 has got to be 3rd time lucky :scratch:

So the rough plan so far for the journey gets us to the Castle & back with one day spare that I haven't figured yet.

The pics are stock from google but just to give you the idea :thumb:

Many thanks to [mention]Gerontious[/mention] for pointing me to https://www.tracesofwar.com/ It made a huge difference :cheers: :thumb:


Monday 10th May 2021


P&O Ferries Rotterdam, Luxemburgweg 2, 3198 LG Europoort Rotterdam, Netherlands


Het Nederlands Vestingmuseum, Westwalstraat 6, 1411 PB Naarden, Netherlands (73 miles)


Harsloweg 4, 6721 NM Bennekom, Netherlands ( 36 miles ) {109 miles Total}


[FUEL STOP] BP, Dr. W. Dreeslaan 25, 6716 AW Ede, Netherlands (4 miles)


Overnight Stop 113 miles that day (8 Miles of fuel used) 2 hours 30 minutes riding time

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Tuesday 11th May


[Dambuster Crash Site Memorial ]Flassertweg, 46446 Emmerich am Rhein (34 Miles)


[LEG STRETCH] Hanielstraße 31, 46242 Bottrop, Germany (38 Miles){ 72 Miles from Overnight Stop}


[FUEL STOP & FOOD] Aral, A44, 59457 Werl, Germany (90 Miles){124 Miles from Overnight Stop}}


Möhnestraße, 59519 Möhnesee, Germany (12.3 Miles) {136 miles from Overnight Stop}



Overnight Stop 170 miles that day (44 miles of fuel used since fuel stop) 3 hours 30 minutes riding time


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Wednesday 12th May



[LEG STRETCH] 51°17'02.8"N 9°22'09.1"E Rastplatz Firnsbachtal (45 Miles)


[FOOD & FUEL STOP] Westerlange 1, 37154 Northeim, Germany (53 Miles)(97 Miles Total )(141 miles of fuel used since fuel stop)



KZ Mittelbau-Dora Memorial, Kohnsteinweg 20, 99734 Nordhausen, Germany (46 miles)(143 Miles since overnight stop){396 miles Total} Including Kohnsteinweg 20, 99734 Nordhausen, Germany. Same location.


Rappbodetalsperre des TSB-LSA, Talsperrenbetrieb LSA , (Timmenröderstr. 1A, 38889 Blankenburg), Rappbodetalsperre 1a, 38889 Rübeland, Germany

(22 miles)[165 from overnight stop] {417 miles from P&O Total}


Veckenstedter Weg 43, 38855 Wernigerode, Germany (12.5 miles)[177 from overnight stop]{430 miles from P&O Total}


Overnight Stop 193 miles that day (100 miles of fuel used since fuel stop ) 4 hours 40 minutes riding time

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Thursday 13th May


[FUEL STOP] Nordhäuser Str. 19, 38899 Hasselfelde, Germany (13.2 Miles)


[FUEL STOP] Shell, A14, 04668 Grimma, Germany(123 Miles)


Colditz Castle, Schloßgasse 1, 04680 Colditz, Germany(13 Miles) (136 miles that day)[]{550 miles from P&O Total} 3 hours 10 minutes riding time

Two overnights

Thursday 13th May Friday 14th May, Depart Saturday 15th May

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Saturday 15th May


Große Diesdorfer Str. 90, 39110 Magdeburg, Germany


[FUEL STOP] Pflaumenallee 1, 39343 Erxleben, Germany


JU52-Halle, Zur Luftbrücke 1, 31515 Wunstorf, Germany


287 Miles

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Sunday 16th May


MarKo stand bunker, Strandboulevard, Hoek van Holland, Netherlands



P&O Ferries Rotterdam, Luxemburgweg 2, 3198 LG Europoort Rotterdam, Netherlands


201 Miles

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  • 2 weeks later...

PR Reid's Colditz books were my favourite teenage read and I loved the Colditz board game. Hope it all works out for you.

 

Thanks Throttled :cheers:

The 2009 trip which was literally 'let's just get there' couldn't be more opposite to this trip with fuel & food stops, leg stretches combined at the same time with something of interest to look at etc all planned into gpx files. The route planning has been profoundly enhanced with access to https://www.tracesofwar.com thanks again to [mention]Gerontious[/mention]

The return route initially was taking a northern path until I found the Vuren Fortress Bunker & a memorial to a crashed Lancaster bomber.

There are a few small mods I want to do to my bike & get some miles in to get bike fit as we will be in the saddle for 8 out of 10 days. I actually like the endurance side of it.

If anyone wants them I can post the gpx files here, I think [mention]Stu[/mention]

Lancaster_Memorial_Papendrecht.JPG.e992b14882e87ad3d92739d4198459a6.JPG

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Not sure if this will work but here goes, each day is its own gpx file

I've updated the gpx files, deleted the old.

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I've been using GpsPrune (linux) to convert KML files from google my maps to GPX. It's not available for windows but if anyone on here uses linux here's the link or find it in your repository

https://activityworkshop.net/software/gpsprune/

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