Originally Posted by
villofthehelm
... I want to avoid main roads for saftey reasons ...
I look for this too. I searched a lot and found interesting results.
For example, exactly from Calais to Berlin there is the Euroroute R1:
http://www.euroroute-r1.de/EN/Introd...te_R1/K407.htm
I did it from Wittemberg to Berlin in my
bicycle tour of 2009 and it was a wonderful way inside the forests!