Dunkirk to Lucerne, Switzerland

[Allyc85]

Me and a mate are going on a road trip to the Alps and back home via the Belgian GP and need bit of advice on which route to take. We know roughly where we are going in the alps (famous last words!) but would like to know the best route to the Lucerne area in Switzerland as we will be leaving Dunkirk at around 9am and dont want to hit too much traffic. The quickest route according to google earth is this..

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&a...

Cheers for any advice

Edited by Allyc85 on Monday 2nd August 18:38

[Lambochick]

I guess that depends on whether you want a quick route or a scenic route. From the look of the route you have posted, it would appear that you want to get to your destination in just one day.

We have a trip later in the year which ends up close to your destination, but we have decided to make the trip down a two day event so that we can enjoy some of the quieter/twistier roads on the way down.

[Allyc85]

Yea we want to do it in a day as it will give us a day and a bit to play in the Alps before heading north to Spa

[G Man]

Did roughly that route earlier this year, cross the boarder into Germany there is a short stretch of unlimited motorway !!
You are missing the Route des Cretes and B500 in the Black forest which are stone throws away ... madness not to give them a try

[Allyc85]

they do look like great roads but we dont want to be rushing too much so will defoo consider them if we have time

How did you find traffic on your journey down there?

[G Man]

Speed was fine 130 kph on cruise, you will meet at least 1 speed trap, don't push to hard !!
Head to Andermatt and do the loop !!
Here is the Alpine passes map http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8...

[Allyc85]

The loops the plan before we head to Bormio for the night. Then it will be Stelvio and onto Belguim to relax and watch f1 cars scream past

[G Man]

Recommend http://www.vallechiarabormio.it/ for a hotel in Bormio

[Allyc85]

That looks a stunning place to stay, much better than the youth hostel we were planning on using lol. Will have to see how far my funds stretch after I have some work done on my cars steering tomorrow!

[Allyc85]

Not very far is the answer to that, ended up costing twice as much as I thought

Anyone else done this route, think we maybe staying in Lille thye night before so wont be such a huge mission.