Holiday European Driving Route Advice

[10 CYL]

Hi
I want to drive from Calais through Germany Switzerland down to Italy (Amalfi Coast) and back through France (Provence) and stop off at the most interesting scenic places. If anyone has done this on here and i'm sure many of you have would anyone have driving route info.

Thanks

[thehawk]

Yes, sort of done this a few times because it's so enjoyable and you get to experience so many different places.

My route was :

Calais
Bruges - Walk around old city, couple of churches, lunch and then drive to Brussels
Brussels - Dinner in Grand Place ('t Kelderke), next day Museum of Fine Art, evening drive to Cologne
Cologne - Cathedral and Chocolate museum
Bonn - Beethoven birthplace & museum
Wurzburg - Great little town with a beautiful palace to look at
Rothenburg ob der Tauber - Medieval town, picture postcard stuff
Augsburg - mainly an overnighter with a couple of interesting spots
Munich - Technology museum, beer halls, Dachau, Dome, market, BMW museum. 3 days here
Schwangau - Neuschwanstein Castle, another castle next door
Garmisch Partenkirchen - mainly overnighter
Innsbruck - Just walking around for a day
Verona - Day walking around, beautiful place, Roman arena, other Roman stuff, churches, Juliets balcony.
Milan - Duomo, Piazza, The Last Supper, Shopping
Lugano - Great place to chill out, walk around lake etc
Genoa - Overnight stop, before drive along coast
Monaco - Sightseeing
Nice - Sightseeing , eating
Aix en Provence - Overnighter
Avignon - Popes Palace, daytrips to Gordes, Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Orange - Amphitheatre
Valence - Overnighter
Amiens - Overnight after long drive from south
Calais

[10 CYL]

Thanks for the info I will give it a go.

Cheers

[Stephanie Plum]

Done similar, and taken roughly this route:

Overnight near Verdun
Vosges
Black Forest
Lake Zurich
Fiesch - staying in hotel up the mountain only reachable by cable car
Lake Como - two nights
Mugello - mountains just north
Montepulciano
Pescara - would swerve this next time - bit of a dump - would have stayed an extra night in Tuscany if we'd realised this
Pompeii to see ruins - this was as far as we went as we got on a boat to Sicily that night - to Palermo
Then on way home we took a ferry from Palermo
to Genoa, staying overnight near Asti
then Lake Annecy
Beaune

Slightly different to yours but close - have fun