Calais to Verona

[NSNO]

Can anyone recommend any interesting routes for the above journey avoiding toll roads.

Thanks

[JasonJH]

I'm sure someone with more experience can offer a better route, but what about something like this..

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Calais,+France&a...

[iva cosworth]

That ^^^^ route goes through Switzerland which is not so much a toll road as a toll

country as you have to buy a "ticket" to drive in the country.

But going from Calais to Verona without using any toll roads you are using a lot of "A" roads

instead of motorway,so will take forever,okay if you are not in a hurry.

Use google maps and press the "no tolls" button.

[Sortie 10]

You only get charged for driving on the motorways in Switzerland.
I would head to Reims on the autoroute, then peel off taking the surprisingly quick (and police-free) routes nationales & departmentales, to Switzerland then head around Lake Geneva to the St Bernard pass (or tunnel). I don't have my atlas at hand, but to point you in the right direction:
Calais > Reims via autoroute
Vitry le Francois
St Dizier
Chalons
Chaumont
Langres
Longeau
Gray (nice quick undulating road to Gray)
Besancon
Pontarlier
[Cross border at] Vallorbe - give this as a destination if the Customs start pushing the vignette (motorway pass)
Lausanne (nice rolling country roads through fields down to Lake Geneva)
Montreux (slow traffic away from the motorway, but great views of the lake, alps, vineyards and often loads of automotive eye-candy)
Vevey
St Bernard pass (worth spending the time to take the pass, as opposed to the tunnel, as sensational scenery and if you are up early, no shed-draggers & campers to spoil the twistiness) avoid the tourist tackiness at the top of the col.
Aosta
Turin
Milan
err, that's where I finish but you are nearly there now.
Takes a couple of days, but if you are on this site I assume you like driving and that motorways are something to be avoided

[NSNO]

Thanks everyone for your replies. I ended up taking the tom-tom route which brought me through Thr following countries:-

France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria and Italy.

I have to say that the autobahn was a bit of a let down as you seemed to be going through roadworks every few km's and no sooner had you left them and put your foot down there was another set waiting. I couldn't believe how narrow the lanes where as well in the road work section, it was quite nerve wracking, especially when passing another car. One thing I did notice though, was that there no trucks on the road which was refreshing although I did pass through on a Sunday there and back and come to think of it I believe that no trucks are allowed to travel on a Sunday.

The road through Austria was filled with some spectacular scenery and so e great driving roads.

On the way back I used the autostrade to Monza and the went up by Lake Como and onto the Splugen Pass. When you google this, it looks like s great road with some fantastic views. However when I went up it was pitch black, there was thick fog and the temperature had gone down to 4.5 degrees having come from Lake Garda where it was thirty plus degrees, so I didn't particulary enjoy driving up it I those conditonds, especially as I took a wrong turn to the top of a village and started to drive up some track as the satnav started to go a bit crazy and I was running low on fuel, so it was a relief to get onto the Swiss motorways.

All in all though it was a great trip and it was so nice to be able to drive at a civilised speed and people not be offended by you overtaking them. In fact sometimes people would begin to move over before they had even completed overtaking. Thr it was back to reality in about ten minutes of arriving back in Dover when I came up behind someone in the outside lane, with no one in the inside who was oblivious to my presence until I flashed them and proceded to move back to the outside lane once I had overtook them.