Those who have done a euro trip!

Glaucus

Glaucus

Glaucus

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Hey guys I know a lot have done a drive around europe.

I'd be interested to know, what software you used to plan the route and places you visited.

Roughly how much you spent and any other advice.

3 of us are thinking of doing it for 10 days next summer.
 
Autoroute/google maps to plan & tomtom/normal inbuilt sat nav's when over there.

Petrol is around the same price as here, so that will depend on how economical your car is. Hotels are roughly the same price too. Ferries and tunnel costs are advertised clearly on the relevent websites.

Its the same cost as doing a 10 day driving holiday here pretty much, just add the channel crossing.
 
Not really mate and i havnt been too far, last time i went we went all along the northern and down the western coasts of france, then back up to paris through loads of villages and countrified areas to see the usual touristy bits and visit disneyland.

Going soon again to le mans in june.
 
Thanks haven't got autoroute at the moment.

You stopping of anywhere? How did you decide where to go?
Any good resources on what there is to do and go in europe?
 
Hopefully doing a Germany & France roadtrip this year, want to do the 'ring, the Milau bridge, and some of the alps in one trip.

EDIT: Microsoft Mappoint Europe I find to be slightly better than Autoroute. Essentially the same app however.
 
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Software???

Good old road map last time I did it with my dad!
All the way to Crete. :D
He paid so I have no idea on costs. ;)
 
I had a photocopy of someone's directions from a Michelin site I think and no map :D

And we thought driving across Europe that would be a good idea :eek: :D
 
I used:
Paper Road Map V1.0
Pencil (release candidate HB)
Notebook (Rev A5, Spiralbound edition)

I did use Excel for doing an equipment check-list though :D
 
also interested in this because its in my plans for summer

i can imagine it going really wrong though lol but i guess getting lost will make it intresting:p
 
As You can tell this is the very early stages of planning, by no means set in stone. But this is roughly where I was thinking.
We would like a mix of drinking fun and more usual tourist(or less normal tourist) things to do.

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1) Bristol
2) cherbourg via plymouth
3) Whats interesting in middle France?
4) south coast again anything around Montpellier?
5) Rome Probably spend at least 2 days here, Pompeii day trip and obviously the collosuem.
6) Venice should be plenty to do there (possibly stop of at the Lambo factory on the way.)
7) Austria, none of us have ever been to austria so no idea where to stay or go there.
8) Krakow or Warsar - Poland awesome
9) Berlin or some where around there, again no idea what's around this area.
10) The obvious place is Amsterdam, but we all went there last year. (Antwerp, Brussels?)
11) Calais for some beer and back to bristol Probably straight drive from number 10 back to bristol


Taking turns to drive what would be reasonable driving distances? 300-400miles a say?
 
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Its warsaw and not warsall (thats a crappy place just outside of Wolverhampton).

All i can say is, when you book hotels, make sure they have parking, for example Paris is a nightmare to find a hotel with parking on site.
 
AcidHell2 said:
3) Whats interesting in middle France?
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le mans,poitiers,millau bridge. kind of along your middle route.

Done student gumball the other year and we just picked cities we wanted to go to on the way back, checked we could make it in the day travelling and just booked up hostels. Going to be doing it again this year and will probably do similar.

And in austria salzburg is glorious, absolutely beautiful city/surroundings.
 
Not sure about hotels.

I assume Europe has some sort of travel hotel chain. Which you can just drop into. So we could change the plan if we wanted. Also Hostels are fine with us and actually we kind of prefer them if we're staying more than one night.
 
Hi AcidHell2.

Firstly, What map software are you using there?

Secondly, From point J to I drop down into the Nurburgring if its somewhere you've never been before, well worth the experience.

From Point F to E, surely a visit to Modena home of Ferrari is in order? Never researched it but Im sure there must be a museum / collection located within that region?

As for sensible driving distances per day: yeah 3-400 is about right. More and it loses any fun factor quickly.
 
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