Help with a weekend-ish european road trip.

[dreamz]

Basically me and a few of my relatives *all lads* are planning a wee road trip.

What we want to do is hire a decent minibus - around 5 lads *all in mid 20's early 30's* and drive - stay a nite or two in some nice places

at the moment this is the trip i sorta have in mind

from east london down to dover cross over france down to strasbourg (are there any worthy diversion to be taken? any points of interest along that route? battlefields etc?)

from strasborg over to zurich across the alps to milan then down to torino then back over the alps over to lyon then dijon through paris and then back upto london *though i wouldnt mind going via normandy to see the landings*

stay friday night in strasbourg
stay satuday night in milan maybe torino
stay sunday somewhere in france and get back to the uk monday

after torino the route is flexible - as long as we pass thru paris and maybe via normandy to see the wwII landing sites. anywhere you can recommend to go thru france and stay the night???

[2something]

Strasbourg and Colmar are nice, plenty of excellent wine tasting nearby.

Haven't looked at the map, but I think you need to go through the Gotthard tunnel to get to Milan (if you don't want to go over the pass) and traffic can be a complete nightmare at the weekend. Also if you need the toilet before you hit the tunnel, don't wait and get stuck in a massive traffic jam 50 metres into the tunnel ! The Italian part of Switzerland is beautiful and you can go swimming in the lakes.

Not quite answering your questions, but hopefully of some help.

[dreamz]

no no thanks for the words

i think we will b going over. cant see much of abroad in a tunnel

as for the wine tasting - its a no alcohol trip - we've got some non drinkers so we sorta agreed none of us wud drink.

surely the italian part of switzerland would be swiss? *LOL*