http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/2005043003A collection from over the last 8 or so years. I forgot that I'd changed cameras so the jpeg names all starting IMG have shuffled them up. A lot of Black Forest, Eifel and Mossell valley. Colditz Castle is in there. Nice place, but the surrounding area near Leipzig isnt great, but not too far from the Harz or Sachsenring MotoGP and worth a visit.
I tend to only book up if going to a race weekend as accommodation is sought after. A lot of my trips are made up on the go. Last year I was going to go to Italy but when I got to Austria as the weather was bad in Italy so went to Slovakia.
Finding accommodation has been ok to find in most places, but I rarely travel in school holidays. There have been a few times where I've struggled to get somewhere. In the Harz once there was a trade fair/show going on and everything was booked out for 40 miles. Same in the Frankfurt area where there was a big motor show on.
Now I have got a Nexus tablet I can check roughly the area I am heading next day for accommodation and make sure I get somewhere nice, or at least dont worry about not finding somewhere when I get there if there is still plenty available. I use
www.booking.com. Its easy to look at the review comments and avoid the duff places. It also says if there is parking available which is handy for use bikers. Most of Germany in the areas I mentioned feels safe for keeping bikes out in the street but its better to have somewhere off road for piece of mind. I've found most places offer you a place for the bike in their garage when I check-in anyway, without me needing to ask. The only place I was told to make sure I park in their garage was in Aachen, the receptionist said 2 bikes had been nicked from outside the hotel this year. Very biker friendly the Germans.
A lot of cheaper B&Bs aren't on there though. B&Bs can be had for £25 in the Black Forest and other areas away from big towns. Hotels vary depending on the town/city, but most places up to €60 you can find some where good.
For photos I use
www.photobox.com as they dont limit you on the number of photos you can hold. I've kept an album of tours where I stick 10-30 from each trip in.
I down size the photos to make it quicker to upload them, and the quality doesnt suffer if you just run throgh the slideshow.
Register there, click on my photobox tab, and create new album, then add photos. An upload box appears which you point at your photos and select add all, upload and away it chugs. Once uploaded, there is a tab saying 'this album is private (change)' , if you click on change then click on 'share on the web' it should give you a URL which you can copy and give folks.
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