7-day Euro road trip route advice

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Considering a solo Euro road trip in a few weeks. No real agenda other than driving some good roads, avoiding traffic, a bit of an escape etc.
I'm fine with driving decent distances each day if the rewards as worth it. Still to decide if I'll book hotels in advance or go rouge and just wait and decide each day where I want to head to.

It'll be the overnight ferry from Newcastle to Amsterdam (Ijmuiden).
Considering the following:

Spa, Belgium
Reims, France
Baden-Baden, Germany
Stuttgart, Germany
Nürburgring, Germany
Back to Ijmuiden, evening departure, overnight ferry, home.

Was originally planning to head down to the Alps passes, but doubt I'd have enough time in 7 days, and probably still risky with them not being open yet.

Any advice on roads/routes/hotels/beers welcome.

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plenty said:

If based in Newcastle I'd be heading to Scotland, personally.

I live in Scotland , hence heading to Newcastle for the ferry.

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Thank all, appreciate the suggestions - I'm google map-ing all this out to see what I think I can fit in.
As I'm planning to head away the last week in May, I'm a bit concerned the Austrian passes might still be closed (?) or still a bit too wintery for fun driving.
Anyone been down there at that time of year?

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Ah ok. I'll leave all that for this time then. Will probably have another Euro road trip later in the year, so will save the passes until then.
For now I'll stick to northern Germany, Belgium, maybe Lux, as per plenty's advice.
Cheers.

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Boleros said:

What are you driving out of interest?

McLaren 600LT

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Medic-one said:

We done Baden-baden, Reims, Stuttgart and the Alps 2 years ago, quite a bit of info about it in here :

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

We spend 16 days, but mainly because we didn't want too long journeys (4 - 5 hour max) and had a quite a few hotel stops for a night or 2 along the way.

If done alone with less stops I'd say it's pretty doable in 7 days.

It's partly your fault I'm doing this in the first place
I've read through your road trip post plenty times, and thought I fancy a bit of that! The write up info and pics are great.

I think this time won't go as far as Austria/Switzerland, as I don't want to get all the way there and find the good roads still not ready for fun driving. So I'll save that and should be able to get down there later in the year when I'll have a couple of extra days too.