Driving countries.
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We’re struggling to choose a holiday this year. The OH has arthritis in her ankles so that limits mobility.
Some of the best holidays we’ve had is basing ourselves in a hotel, hiring a car and just driving wherever the roads take us.
Recently we’ve done Cyprus for 2 weeks and Santorini for a week. However we can’t decide where to go next.
Warm but not too hot with decent driving roads enough to keep us occupied for 2 weeks. Not the US.
Few years ago now but we enjoyed touring Croatian coast and (especially) Bosnia.
Beautiful coast, waterfalls, lakes, lots of limestone features, Roman remains, decent food. Back then they really needed the money so happy to spend it.
Easy crossing over - on one occasion the border post was unmanned. We thought we’d better wait and eventually they came back from a coffee break, apologised, and waved us through.
Beautiful coast, waterfalls, lakes, lots of limestone features, Roman remains, decent food. Back then they really needed the money so happy to spend it.
Easy crossing over - on one occasion the border post was unmanned. We thought we’d better wait and eventually they came back from a coffee break, apologised, and waved us through.
InitialDave said:
How far are you willing to go?
I love driving around Japan.
Oh don't tempt me. I love driving around Japan.
The best holiday we ever had was Japan last year. However the OH thinks that all that walking carrying rucksacks exacerbated the problem and so we had basically written off going back there.
Can you give a bit more info on what you did?
Drawweight said:
Oh don't tempt me.
The best holiday we ever had was Japan last year. However the OH thinks that all that walking carrying rucksacks exacerbated the problem and so we had basically written off going back there.
Can you give a bit more info on what you did?
I've been to a huge numbers of places over the years, so it very much depends on where you've been on your past trip, and where you'd like to see.The best holiday we ever had was Japan last year. However the OH thinks that all that walking carrying rucksacks exacerbated the problem and so we had basically written off going back there.
Can you give a bit more info on what you did?
I really like Hokkaido, and did a road trip effectively orbiting the island with a friend. That's more your big, open countryside for the most part.
In Aomori, I wanted to go to the Seikan tunnel museum near Cape Tappi, and then I took the coastal route 339 down to Hirosaki, that's a beautiful bit of coast I otherwise wouldn't have seen.
When settjng off from Tokyo, I've taken a ratty AE86 round the Gunma mountains from Initial D, an R34 GTR on misty Mt Tsukuba passes, an S660 to Motegi circuit and the Honda museum, and last year I did a few hundred miles around Saitama and Nagano in a Jimny, visiting whisky distilleries. Even found an off-road course near Nagoya to try it out on.
Plus just hiring quirky more generic kei cars and getting out and about. I find overnight parking is easy to locate and often cheap, and renting from Toyota's own service is always really easy if I just decide, sod it, I want to go check out what's over there.
The only negative I find really is that expressway tolls can add up if you use them a lot, but it's not crippling.
chip* said:
Fly to Innsbruck and you can tour around Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, Fly further east to Graz, and you have Slovenia too. Something I used to do pre-kids days where I would travel around staying 3-4 nights and then moving on to a new destination.
That’s a great suggestion but just a reminder to the OP that if you did that you would need to declare it to the hire car company, pay extra fees and make sure you are insured outside of country of origin of the car 
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