Best route to Italy?
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rupert the dog

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1,433 posts

233 months

Tuesday 8th June 2010
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Booked it! Going via Dunkirk, what's the best route to Italy? Really looking for a mixture of quickest/cheapest. Planning a three week trip, but want to maximise the time in Italy rather than too many stopovers elsewhere.

tinman0

18,231 posts

256 months

Tuesday 8th June 2010
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You can either go north from Dunkirk into the worlds largest lamppost museum (some call it Belgium), to Luxembourg, and then southwards a bit which gets you round French tolls.

Or you can head south on the A16 or A26 (can never remember) to Reims, Metz/Nancy, Strasbourg, Basel (CH), through St Gotthard and continue to Como and into Italy that way. You can take a small cross country detour in France to go through Alsace (head for Molsheim) which avoids Strasbourg, and gives the car a bit of a break. You won't lose any time, and there is a fabulously cheap petrol station about 10 miles in on that route. Look for exit 45 on whatever that autoroute is for Molsheim.


maser_spyder

6,356 posts

198 months

Tuesday 8th June 2010
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Or get the car train from Paris to Nice, and miss out all the French toll roads.

http://www.raileurope.co.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=156...

We'll be doing this later in the year, but you have to book early (three months) to get the best deals at about £40 each way.