European Roadtrip + Stelvio pass (very photo heavy)

[Frimley111R]

Just what I need to see on a Monday morning in the office....

Looks amazing!

[CHLEMCBC]

Looks like a great trip. Boring question: where did you stay near the tunnel and was that where your first pic was taken?

[Ted Maul]

I did a trip to the Alps in Sep, if you have a drone I highly recommend taking it with you and if you don't, I highly recommend you buy one!

[TP11]

Great thread that inspired me! OP, looking at the following as a condensed version.

Folkestone -> Calais -> Luxembourg (1nt)
Luxembourg -> Baden Baden (1nt) Potentially detour via Nürburgring
Baden Baden -> Brienz via B500 (2nts to rest and have full day exploring the passes)
Brienz -> Bellagio (1nt)
Bellagio -> Bormio via Stelvio Pass (1nt)
Bormio -> Stuttgart (1nt)
Stuttgart (museums) -> Reims (1nt)
Reims -> Calais + Home

The only 2nt stay is to make the most out the alps passes. Most of the stays are to keep driving to reasonable levels daily and do a couple hours exploring local areas.

Any feedback on this, if you think there’s a better way of doing it or some stops to swap out?

Cheers!

[Imasurv]

Your route seems fine, similar to the OP (I've also borrowed some of his route and hotels for my road trip next year). Only comment is only staying 1 night in each place apart from the Alps - but as you are looking at a shorter trip I'm sure it'll be great!

My road trip route is over six weeks and so I have built in several 2 and 3 night stops and limited daily driving to around 4-6 hours with longer stops after the longer driving days.

[RDMcG]

Great stuff!...have driven most of this over the years and well worth it. Last time I did Stelvio was Sep 7 2024, and it closed for the season unexpectedly two days later due to unexpected weather, so was very lucky

[Red Devil]

Medic-one said:

After the Stelvio pass we did the Umbrail pass the Santa Maria, and from there we went towards Stuttgart.

The Satnav was set to include Toll roads which saved some time though when leaving Switzerland on the way to Stuttgart we stopped at this tollbooth and were told it would be CHF 34, to pass, which seemed more then previous roads, but we happily paid it and then accelerated away, only to arrive at this, without having a clue where we were, why there was a train in front of us, and where this train was going to take us...

Though the alternative was a 55 minute detour, so we were happy to drive onto this little train for the 25 minutes journey to wherever...

Your Sat Nav must have directed you to this tollbooth.- https://maps.app.goo.gl/GLBVpEcczGxXnJcQ8
The train goes through the 11.8 mile Vereina Tunnel to Klosters Selfranga. It's the world's longest on a narrow gauge line.
You could have turned left in Susch on to route 28 via the Fluela Pass.- https://maps.app.goo.gl/ArCgmJU5ErpKjNQT6

Been a long time: You had your Mitsubishi GTO back then.