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By road

If you are lucky to have someone willing to drop you off at the start, it is between 850km and 950km (depending upon the route taken) from Calais to Oberalppass which is on Swiss Route 19 between Andermatt and Chur. With your own vehicle, the most convenient place to leave it is Basel, from where trains can be used to reach Oberalppass on the outward journey and which can be reached by train from Rotterdam on the return. Basel is between 675km and 850m from the Channel ports.

European Bike Express operates a coach service from northern England, picking up en-route across England to the Mediterranean. Cycles travel in a dedicated cycle trailer and handlebars need turning, but otherwise cycles remain intact. There are drop-off points in eastern France at Nancy, where you can catch a train to Basel, or Mâcon for trains to Geneva. Details and bookings are available at www.bike-express.co.uk.

Intermediate access

There are international airports at Friedrichshafen (Stage 5), Basel/Mulhouse/Freiburg (Stage 9), Strasbourg (Stage 10), Karlsruhe/Baden (Stage 12), Köln/Bonn (Stage 19) and Düsseldorf (Stage 21). Zürich airport is 14km from Teufen (Stage 7) and Frankfurt airport 24km from Mainz (Stage 16) (note: Frankfurt Hahn airport is in the Hunsrück mountains 50km west of Bacharach and is not close to the route). Düsseldorf Weeze is 18km from Kalkar (Stage 23). Amsterdam Schiphol airport can be reached by train from Arnhem or Rhenen.