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Driving Report: Birmingham to St Anton, via Munich, and back!

 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead
What a great drive. Smile Here are our timings and distances (route to Munich - where my brother lives - supplied by RAC Route Planner web site).

Friday 7 January 2005 – set out from Birmingham at 3.50am – M5 / M42 / M40 / M25 / M20 – stopped for petrol – arrived at Eurotunnel terminal at 6.45am (205 miles) – caught 7.33am train.

Left Calais at 9.15am (local time). Headed north to Dunkirk, then east to Lille, through Belgium to Luxembourg, then to Saarbucken and Karlsruhe. Picked up the A8, then past Stuttgart, Ulm and Augesburg. Arrived Munich at 7.00pm (total mileage from Birmingham: 801).

Directions were impeccable but needs a passenger to navigate – route between Saarbucken and Karlsruhe via the B10 is slow.

Traffic conditions were reasonable throughout but may have been assisted by a Bank Holiday in Germany on 6 January and people taking Friday off.

On Saturday morning, after a brief tour of Munich City Centre, left about 9.00am and headed south to Garmisch (roads congested) and then onto Austria. Stopped en route for breakfast and arrived at St Anton at 12.30pm. Checked into hotel, hired skis and hit the slopes at about 2.00pm. Mileometer showing 937 miles from Birmingham.

Return journey – Saturday 15 January - left St Anton at 7.30am. Headed north to Ulm and then west to Karlsruhe. Lost our way briefly, but headed south into France and picked up the autoroute to Strasbourg, then onto the A4 and east to Metz and Rheims and A26 through to Calais. Arrived Calais (672 miles from St Anton) at 5.30pm after two half hour stops.

Drove off the train at 6.10pm (local time) and back in Birmingham for supper at 9.10pm. (Total return mileage: 1814).

Verdict: Brilliant Very Happy had never driven like this before and would never have guessed that we could have started out from St Anton after an early breakfast and been back in Birmingham for a late supper! French autoroutes were a dream with virtually no traffic. Can maintain a constant 80/85mph – cruise control a bonus.

As for St Anton, that’s another story. Enjoyable, but for a three week fifty-something skier, it was tough (as the guides say) and only just manageable. However, did most pistes – reds (including ski routes) from top of Valluga and Rendl, the Kandahar – Galzig by mistake Shocked (wide but icey black). Earlier very mild weather taking its toll, snow wearing thin, with ice beneath and stones coming through at the top of Valluga and Rendl. Constant snow making during day and night when temperatures permitted. Most off-piste had been skied out or bare.

Had a great day at Zurs and Lech - more relaxing pistes (holding snow better) and more off-piste opportunities for those inclined.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Thanks for this, Colin. Valuable stuff. Food for thought here....
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