My European road trip aka "The Italian Job 3"

[Dave Thornton]

Just thought I would share my amazing experience and inspire others into taking their Porsche into Europe ...

The mission was a family holiday to Verona / Lake Garda for 2 adults and 2 children, so 2 drove and 2 flew, allowing for all the luggage and individual preferences. The route down took in 9 countries - via Stuttgart for the Porsche museum - and went over Stelvio (from Trafoi to Bormio). A day trip to Modena took in the Lamborghini and Ferrari museums as well as the Pagani showroom. And the route back was via the Grand Saint Bernard Pass, including the location of the opening scenes of The Italian Job.

Here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93KaRajM9NY&fea...

[rob.kellock]

Excellent, very clever!

I got increasingly nervous as the video progressed that it would not end well in the tunnel!!

[Norfolkaston]

Very good!

[NBTBRV8]

Yes, very good. I hope that you are still alive and this isn't your swansong video and we your Charlie's!

[996TT02]

Oooh, just did 4k (km) through Europe (one way!) and can't wait for the next one!

[Shurv]

I love the Alps, but prefer 2 wheels to four for my alpine blastings.Its simply more fun ( until it rains of course). Some of the roads are pretty narrow and with trucks and busses you don't have much room to play with. On a bike you have much more freedom and don't get stuck behind stuff as you can pick them off more easily. Great piece of footage, and some natty camera work. Its making me want to plan next year's Alps trip.

[996TT02]

Shurv said:

I love the Alps, but prefer 2 wheels to four for my alpine blastings.Its simply more fun ( until it rains of course). Some of the roads are pretty narrow and with trucks and busses you don't have much room to play with. On a bike you have much more freedom and don't get stuck behind stuff as you can pick them off more easily. Great piece of footage, and some natty camera work. Its making me want to plan next year's Alps trip.

I must agree that it's not all ideal 4 wheel playground, in fact only a select few mountain passes are truly exceptional driving.

For quality 4-wheel driving in quantity, I would say that Tuscany is tops.

Nevertheless the mountain passes are spectacularly scenic and still very satisfying.

Slow traffic tends to lump together behind a bus or something, my tactic, rather than "waste" the entire drive to the top in convoy @15mph, is to simply park by the side of the road and wait for a few minutes. Taking pics and stuff. When I see the next coach coming, which will have it's own little backlog behind it, I do a Le Mans start and get ahead of it.