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When to eat

Breakfast usually consists of breads, jam and a hot drink with, in Germanic areas, the addition of cold meats and cheese and often a boiled egg. In Switzerland, the breakfast dish birchermuesli, made from rolled oats, nuts and dried fruit, is the forerunner of commercially produced muesli.

In Germany lunch was traditionally the main meal of the day, but this is slowly changing, and is unlikely to prove suitable if you plan an afternoon in the saddle. The most common lunchtime snacks everywhere are soups, and ham or cheese sandwiches. In Germany würst mit senf und brot (sausages with mustard and bread) and würstsalat (thin strips of slicing sausage served with sauerkraut (pickled cabbage)) are popular; while croque monsieur (toasted ham/cheese sandwich) and quiche Lorraine are widely available in France.

For dinner, a wide variety of cuisine is available, including Italian, Greek, Turkish and Chinese. Much of what is available is pan-European and will be easily recognisable. There are, however, some national and regional dishes you may wish try.