European Road Trip in my VX220 - write up & pictures
Discussion
Roastie ITR said:
Cyrus1971 said:
Looks like you had a blast. PH sholud have more of this kind of sharing IMHO. Did you give the 458 Itallia a run for it's money ?
Cyrus
I'm sure if he was trying properly I wouldn't have seen which way he went. Seemed to be giving it beans on the straight, but slow through most corners.Cyrus
Agree about sharing these kind of trips, it's what inspired me to do it and I'm really glad I did.
Great trip and a great write up.
I have done several similar trips (in an Exige and Cayman S) and they are what driving is all about IMO.
Also think yourself lucky you have a missus willing to do a trip of that length in a VX220.
Stelvio is very overated and the other side is far better than the famous hairpin side. Hairpins get boring after the first few.
The Col De turini is better but the last time I did it was in a Bentley Continantal T which is a big bus to try and throw up and down there.
Glad you liked Garda. I stopped off there a few times and going back there for the first part of my honeymoon next year.
I have done several similar trips (in an Exige and Cayman S) and they are what driving is all about IMO.
Also think yourself lucky you have a missus willing to do a trip of that length in a VX220.
Stelvio is very overated and the other side is far better than the famous hairpin side. Hairpins get boring after the first few.
The Col De turini is better but the last time I did it was in a Bentley Continantal T which is a big bus to try and throw up and down there.
Glad you liked Garda. I stopped off there a few times and going back there for the first part of my honeymoon next year.
sagarich said:
Cracking write up! Really enjoyed reading this and would love to do something like this at some stage.
How did you navigate? Sat nav? Or was the misses operating the map?
I produced ITN files for each day of the exact roads that I wanted to drive that I then uploaded onto my TomTom. How did you navigate? Sat nav? Or was the misses operating the map?
Each morning it was just a case of selecting the correct route and then following the TomTom.
Looks great. Wished I done his before our first kid. No 2 seaters. No hundreds of miles in one go without I need the toilet are we nearly there het etc lol. Maybes when he's grown up. Might even want to do it then with me. Although I don't want to imagine the cost of fuel in 20 years time.
Actually here's a vid of me and my mate driving through some of the best roads I have ever experienced in Tuscany, complete with 80's music it felt like we were in a film such good times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEWKNcbQp-8&fea...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEWKNcbQp-8&fea...
Roastie ITR said:
I produced ITN files for each day of the exact roads that I wanted to drive that I then uploaded onto my TomTom.
Each morning it was just a case of selecting the correct route and then following the TomTom.
That's useful.Each morning it was just a case of selecting the correct route and then following the TomTom.
When we did ours, we only had (and still have the Tom Tom Start 2 (I think)) which has no extra memory slot. Not sure if we are able to do this? Is it done via the Tom Tom PC program?
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