Epic Euro Road Trip ideas

[Pennick93]

Next year some time myself and my good friend will be undertaking a 5,000 mile road trip through most of Europe in our modified Toyota GT86's, stopping off at Rotterdam, Dortmund, Munich, Zurich, Milan, San Morino, Naples, Rome, Florence, Genoa, Nice, Marseille, Barcelona, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Le Mans and finally Paris before returning home to Essex on an epic journey that will take course over what will hopefully be the best month of my life so far.

I'm asking for suggestions on routes to take between the various cities, mountain passes, best sections of the autobahn and anything else people have done on road trips through Europe that they think everyone else must do, not forgetting the essential trip through the Mont Blanc tunnel as well as the run round the Nurburgring.

I've decided to add Naples on to the list, to allow a drive down the Eastern coast of Italy, and then the Amalfi Coast.

Edited by Pennick93 on Friday 10th October 15:55

[Pennick93]

Next year some time myself and my good friend will be undertaking a 5,000 mile road trip through most of Europe in our modified Toyota GT86's, stopping off at Rotterdam, Dortmund, Munich, Zurich, Milan, San Morino, Rome, Florence, Genoa, Nice, Marseille, Barcelona, Bilbao, Bordeaux, Le Mans and finally Paris before returning home to Essex on an epic journey that will take course over what will hopefully be the best month of my life so far.

I'm asking for suggestions on routes to take between the various cities, mountain passes, best sections of the autobahn and anything else people have done on road trips through Europe that they think everyone else must do, not forgetting the essential trip through the Mont Blanc tunnel as well as the run round the Nurburgring.

Edited by Pennick93 on Thursday 23 October 12:45

[Pennick93]

I've found a vast amount of good roads between Zurich and Venice, as well as south-eastern France. Struggling to find any in northern Germany/ Denmark, Central and the eastern and western coasts of Italy excluding the Amalfi Coast, and in Western France! Any of you got any ideas for these locations?

[Pennick93]

Thanks for the replies and suggestions guys. Dcb, a lot of the cities are just resting points that are on our route, they aren't of any significance, such as Rotterdam, Zurich and Marseille. We're considering starting all the way up in Norway instead of Rotterdam, but that'd add a lot of miles onto the journey.

For the main cities, specifically in Italy, where we will be stopping for a couple of days to enjoy the city, we'll be parking outside of the city in a secure car park and getting the train in. After visiting Rome in June I will never even consider driving in that free-for-all!!! When it comes to Naples, it'll specifically be Sorrento to see Mt. Vesuvius and Pompeii and that'd just be a single day stop.

[Pennick93]

Wozy68 said:

Personally if you want a decent tunnel, in fact a fabulous (well as as fab as one can be) tunnel then Vielha in the Pyrenees is the one. Brand new and yes a 50MPH speed limit, but at least its free and you can free wheel from the tunnel crest downhill for over 10 miles into the town.

Definitely need to do a decent tunnel in the run, to get some good audio on the GoPros :P Had never heard of the Vielha tunnel before! How much traffic does it get?

[Pennick93]

Thanks fore more replies and suggestions guys. We've made the decision to include Norway, Sweden and Denmark in the start of the trip. To the people commenting on the roads in southern Italy, remember that this is a sight seeing holiday as well as a driving holiday. If it weren't for that then most of Italy would probably be excluded!