Road Trip Planning

Our driving plans for 2024 includes a trip through the Black Forest in Germany. We thought we’d share our planned route on Google Maps. Click here to access the map.

The route takes us on a 5:45 hour circuit from our hotel (the historic Hotel Hofgut Sternen) taking in some great roads (based around the infamous B500), some great scenery, and an inviting length of de-restricted autobahn.

The route also offers the chance to visit lots of local sights, including:

We’re looking forward to putting the plan into action!

We’re planning on using Waze for the GPS, so our ‘'pace notes’ (click here) have a list of Waze points that we’ve pre-programmed into the app. Google’s limit of via points (and tendency to offer 100 different options for a route even AFTER you’ve done that) drives us mad. And as for Garmin … the final straw for that came after a map update which broke all of our previously planned routes and sent us off to extensive incorrect detours!

Feel free to “Edit Stops” in the Google Map to suit your own journey.

Photos will follow on our Facebook page later in the year.

What's best - Waze, Google Maps or GPS?

What's best - Waze, Google Maps or GPS?

Bonnes Routes is all about the driving. Our route planning skills were put to the test on our recent road trip around South East France. We used Google Maps to share the meticulously planned routes with Team UK to drive some superb roads (see previous news for our routes). Our car used Google Maps, and as we were leading, this was backed up by a Garmin GPS. On our return trip we decided to have a competition between Google Maps, Garmin GPS and Waze to see which one performed best. So what was the verdict?

1232 Miles of French Heaven

1232 Miles of French Heaven

While we live in a lovely part of France with some great driving roads we thought it was about time for a road trip of our own in April. We joined up with some petrol-head friends who were driving from the UK to Monaco and back in five days! This called from some serious route planning, which was one of our original inspirations for Bonnes Routes.

We planned to meet up with Team UK at Grenoble to drive Route Napoleon. So not only did we plan our own route, we also provided the route planning for the four cars we were joining. Many hours of street-viewing roads on Google to see if the roads were suitable, and poring over Michelin maps to find the green scenic routes, resulted in numerous Google Map routes with routing points (to pick the best roads), and catch-up stops (for if the cars got separated).

Read more to see how we got on and get links to our maps.