European trip, am I missing anything?

[0llie]

A group of friends and I are leaving for a roadtrip round Europe in just over 7 weeks. The trip is roughly 3k miles door to door, and we have ~10 days to do it.

The route we're taking is roughly (deep breath);
Route Napoleon
Col d'Turini
Monaco
Futa Pass
Imola
Maranello
Lake Como
San Bernadino Pass
Albula Pass (sp?)
Stelvio
Zillertal Pass
Grossglockner (REALLY looking forward to this one)
Voralberg Pass
MB Stuttgart museum
Darmstadt to Frankfurt A5 autobahn (where Rosemeyer was killed during his record attempt)
Nordschliefe



(Excuse all the waypoints!)

I've planned this myself after looking through some threads here and with suggestions from friends. I ask if I'm missing anything really interesting near-by, or if I should just avoid any part of the above?

I'd love to hear your thoughts

[0llie]

Thank you all for your suggestions, and apologies for replying so late (I'd forgotten I'd started it )

I can't believe I hadn't even considered the passes being open, I had wrongly assumed in May that we would be good to go. Thank you all for informing me! So the trip has now been postponed until early July to try miss the summer holiday rush (unless I'm missing something else here )

The route has been cut to remove Italy. We still drive across it, but straight from Col d'Turini to San Bernadino pass now, so we have found some extra time (I really wasn't mega fussed about Italy anyway, I was only there recently).

I've also taken everyone's advice on the driving hours per day. The route is now down to 2500 miles with the exclusion of Italy, but I've made sure that we don't drive for much more than 6 hours each day (apart from the first and last days when we need to cannonball across the autoroutes). I know Google Maps won't be hugely accurate, but it's a reasonable reference point.

Thank you also for the suggestion of the Porsche museum, we will add that to the list

And because I'm hopelessly impatient and want to go on a roadtrip now, I'm off to the Nurburgring in early May (It is open this time, unlike my last visit after a Spa trackday!)

[0llie]

Big E 118 said:

Can you post up a map of your revised route, we might be able to add a few more ideas!

For planning I use the free version of this http://www.tyretotravel.com/ as you can save and export to various sat navs.

Sure. It's not hugely detailed, but here it is;



It's pretty similar from before, so it's;

Route Napoleon
Col d'Turini
Monaco
Lake Como
San Bernadino Pass
Albula Pass
Stelvio
Grossglockner
Voralberg Pass
MB Stuttgart museum
Porsche museum
Darmstadt to Frankfurt autobahn
Nordschliefe

AdiT said:

We use TYRE to plan our tours then download to sat-navs. You do need a TomTom with "itinaries" though and not all have that. Also it doesn't like to let you plan a route that is closed at the time of planning and instead diverts yoou around and closed passes... unless someone has found a way around this; In which case please enlighten me.

Interesting stuff, thank you both. I rolled the firmware back on my old TomTom so I could use the itinerary function for a trip to Wales in 2013.

At present I'm using Google Maps which is shared with the My Maps/Google Maps app on my S4. I shouldn't need to use data once the route is planned (it should just work off of GPS), but I'm on 3's 'all you can eat' data plan with feel at home in each country we visit, though I know this is far from ideal. Once I'm back from 73MM this weekend, I will have to look into this more.

barpilot, I will reply to your PM shortly