but having to chug along at 50kph in the middle of the countryside just because there's a couple of houses 70 meters from the road, certainly took the edge off the Black Forest for me. Excellent roads though.
The B500 (in my opinion well overrated) was teaming with police the last time I passed through. Both the Mosel and Rhein valley we didn't see any police and IMO much better roads.
A definite +1 for northern Italy . Only been down as far as San Marino/Rimini, but all very enjoyable. Rossi's home town of Tavullia is on my bucket list, hopefully next year.