anonymouse
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Just back from a great week of driving in Germany. After some fine concerts and ballet in Kőln, Bonn and Baden-Baden, we spent a couple of days driving in the Black Forest before popping over to the Porsche Museum and the Taycan factory near Stuttgart.
The Black Forest has some superb driving routes but the best of them are minor roads off the main routes.
We used the Porsche “Roads” app (for IOS) to get the details of a route developed by Porsche Experience, called “Black Forest and Rhine Valley”. This took us through loads of fabulous curves and hills. It takes a few main roads but swiftly switches to backroads.
The Roads app is a good concept but very poorly implemented. The app contains lots of unqualified crowdsourced routes, many of which are complete rubbish. Its in-built navigation is hard to follow and cannot handle diversions — in our prep with Google Maps we found at least three parts of the route were closed and we needed to plan substantial diversions. The Roads map is also hard to read because little and major roads look almost the same. However some of the routes, like this one, are great. So we duplicated the map for this route manually into OutdoorActive, the app we use for planning hikes, and customised it for current road closures etc. So we had a great route and my co-pIlot directed us using this map.
Along the way we stayed at the very fine Hotel Bareiss, a superb family-run hotel in the Black Forest with a massive spa and 7-course dinners etc. Excellent hospitality.
The Porsche museum was fascinating and we enjoyed touring the Taycan assembly line. Recommended.
Needless to say the 4S Sport Turismo handled this drive flawlessly, from sharp bends and mountain roads to straight-line Autobahn driving (where it slid effortlessly to 250km/h before the traffic closed in again).
The Black Forest has some superb driving routes but the best of them are minor roads off the main routes.
We used the Porsche “Roads” app (for IOS) to get the details of a route developed by Porsche Experience, called “Black Forest and Rhine Valley”. This took us through loads of fabulous curves and hills. It takes a few main roads but swiftly switches to backroads.
The Roads app is a good concept but very poorly implemented. The app contains lots of unqualified crowdsourced routes, many of which are complete rubbish. Its in-built navigation is hard to follow and cannot handle diversions — in our prep with Google Maps we found at least three parts of the route were closed and we needed to plan substantial diversions. The Roads map is also hard to read because little and major roads look almost the same. However some of the routes, like this one, are great. So we duplicated the map for this route manually into OutdoorActive, the app we use for planning hikes, and customised it for current road closures etc. So we had a great route and my co-pIlot directed us using this map.
Along the way we stayed at the very fine Hotel Bareiss, a superb family-run hotel in the Black Forest with a massive spa and 7-course dinners etc. Excellent hospitality.
The Porsche museum was fascinating and we enjoyed touring the Taycan assembly line. Recommended.
Needless to say the 4S Sport Turismo handled this drive flawlessly, from sharp bends and mountain roads to straight-line Autobahn driving (where it slid effortlessly to 250km/h before the traffic closed in again).
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