Eastern Europe Road Trip - Advice?

[V6Alfisti]

Hello All!

Having completed a France/Italy/Switzerland/Austria/Licheinstein/Germany/Belgium trip last year, it is time for the next and thoughts are drawing us more easterly.

A basic map plot, brings us to the following http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&a... and yet again, we have 10 days to complete the trip. (oh and the ring of course!)

We are all in our mid 20's and would appreciate any advice on stop off's, must see's and any other key information (regulation - such as autobahn passes e.t.c).

Thanking you

Edited by V6Alfisti on Friday 26th February 12:49

[dcb]

V6Alfisti said:

Having completed a France/Italy/Switzerland/Austria/Licheinstein/Germany/Belgium trip last year, it is time for the next and thoughts are drawing us more easterly.

Suggest don't bother going west from Prague, go North instead
and see the former East Germany - Leipzig, Dresden and possibly
also Berlin.

I've been to Koblenz and while it's a fine place in its way,
I wouldn't drive hundreds of miles out of my way for it.

Also, Berlin to Amsterdam would mean you could pop into
Hamburg and / or Hannover on the way back and get a few hundred kms
more of lovely three stripe autobahn in.

[Hugo a Gogo]

what's in Landeck? seems like you're paying swiss and austrian road tolls for no advantage

[V6Alfisti]

dcb said:

V6Alfisti said:

Having completed a France/Italy/Switzerland/Austria/Licheinstein/Germany/Belgium trip last year, it is time for the next and thoughts are drawing us more easterly.

Suggest don't bother going west from Prague, go North instead
and see the former East Germany - Leipzig, Dresden and possibly
also Berlin.

I've been to Koblenz and while it's a fine place in its way,
I wouldn't drive hundreds of miles out of my way for it.

Also, Berlin to Amsterdam would mean you could pop into
Hamburg and / or Hannover on the way back and get a few hundred kms
more of lovely three stripe autobahn in.

Thanks DCB, the reason for Koblenz is it's locality to the ring and one of our favourite clubs is based there (fantastic club, great music and lots of women) but definitely worth thinking about due to the big detour to get there!.

[V6Alfisti]

Hugo a Gogo said:

what's in Landeck? seems like you're paying swiss and austrian road tolls for no advantage

Good question, that was a friends suggestion so will quiz them further

The route to certain places, ie whether we take the motorway or detour through A roads to remote locations are still undecided, something to keep in mind though

[dcb]

Hugo a Gogo said:

what's in Landeck? seems like you're paying swiss and austrian road tolls for no advantage

Landeck is a good central base for exploring a lot of the
west Tirol and maybe even the Engadin valley.

I've been there a few times - it's good.

Swiss road tolls are for all roads, the Austrian
tolls are for motorway only.

If you choose to avoid Austrian motorways and CH totally,
you can save quite a few quid.

[dom180]

dcb said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

what's in Landeck? seems like you're paying swiss and austrian road tolls for no advantage

Landeck is a good central base for exploring a lot of the
west Tirol and maybe even the Engadin valley.

I've been there a few times - it's good.

Swiss road tolls are for all roads, the Austrian
tolls are for motorway only.

If you choose to avoid Austrian motorways and CH totally,
you can save quite a few quid.

Actually the Swiss Vignette sticker isn't required if you don't travel on Swiss motorways or express highways which is feasible if you're not in a hurry. Having said that normal Swiss roads are fairly slow so you won't maintain a very high average speed.

[AndyM31]

All I say is that as per the last post, "high speed averages", the Swiss are HOT on traffic offenses. Try not to go too fast as you might find a ticket or two in the post, it does not take much to upset them there.

Edited by AndyM31 on Monday 1st March 18:42

[V6Alfisti]

AndyM31 said:

All I say is that as per the last post, "high speed averages", the Swiss are HOT on traffic offenses. Try not to go too fast as you might find a ticket or two in the post, it does not take much to upset them there.

Edited by AndyM31 on Monday 1st March 18:42

haha too true, when I was there in August 09, we turned up with 1 TVR and 4 motorbikes. Only the 1 TVR made it through, as the bikes had certain modifications to the exhaust