Monster road trip ,3000+ miles in old FIAT

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MDL111 said:

Thank you for posting all the pics - impressive trip
Suggest you go up a5/a3 rather than a8 to get to Calais - a little less traffic usually - although nowadays it seems there is always traffic in Germany ....

Thanks.
When I got home I looked at maps online.e to see the suggested route for Munich or Stuttgart to Calais,it wasn't the route I chose.
Mileage is pretty similar at roughly 600 but going via Nuremberg was about 2 hours less in time.

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I will add,I used the route I did because I had already been down that way this year and was relatively fresh in my poor memory.
I don't use a sat nav but I do carry some rather dated map books.
The route was if you're familiar,Munich,past Stuttgart on A8, up to Landau,onto the single carriageway to Pirmasens,that was where the tunnel was and the road got flooded due to torrential rain on Thursday.
Then Saarlouis,Luxembourg etc north.
Not the best route by far.

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Same here Mishima.

The car ,with it's large Italian tricolour stripe on bonnet certainly got some looks for the whole week I was down there.

On the Friday after finishing watching the cars from my layby ,I headed for home ,using the MM route and when I went through

both Fucecchio and Monte Carlo ,no not that one ,I was directed by police to stay on the MM route ,rather than the diversion for

normal cars ,kids waved and everything.

As I said earlier ,this was my 4th time at the MM .I would go every year if it wasn't quite so far away.

I love it !