'ring and N Europe trip ideas

[Janosh]

Hi all,

I'm planning my next road trip and have this loop in mind:

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Calais,+Franc...

I'll be travelling with my wife and we have about 10 days for this trip.

The first stop will be 2 nights at the 'ring, then planning to head towards Amsterdam and the coast before looping back towards the tunnel.

Any advice and recommendations?

[Janosh]

Thanks for the heads up - but I'm too worried about the wife, she's done about 20,000km of touring on the back of bikes over the years... and loves driving our current S2000

I'm more interested in whether there are any interesting roads to drive between the 'ring and Amsterdam and any good / fun places to stop.

• Definition of good place: vibrant town, sandy beach, historic, cultural, etc...

If there are none of the above on the suggested route, then I suspect we'll just go to the 'ring and then on 'holiday' elsewhere.

[Janosh]

Any thoughts on this as an alternative: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Calais,+France/N...

As background, we recently (last month) drove to the Italian coast via the Alpes, last year did the Milau bridge & South of France and 2 years ago did a 'Stelvio passes' trip.

I'm keen to hear suggestions around this (potentially uninteresting?) Northern part of Europe, focusing on going to the 'ring and back

[Janosh]

A final decision has been made and we're going to the 'ring for 2 nights and then stopping in Brussels for 2 nights on the way home... Following some of the advice on here and experience from previous trips, it'll be nice to have 1 full day out of the car.

I'll report back (with some pictures) in a few weeks