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Re: Road Trip Ideas

Post by toyneg » Wed Sep 30, 2015 11:37 am

HYFR wrote:tomorrow I set of to hit Black Forest, Swiss Alps 3 pass (Furka, Susten, Grimsel), back through Black Forest and hitting the Nurburgring

2,000 miles
sounds epic!!!
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Re: Road Trip Ideas

Post by Rick_RS4 » Wed Sep 30, 2015 11:45 am

I've had a quick look what about calais through Switzerland. Milan , Venice Monaco then through France to Paris then home??

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Re: Road Trip Ideas

Post by toyneg » Wed Sep 30, 2015 11:57 am

Rick_RS4 wrote:I've had a quick look what about calais through Switzerland. Milan , Venice Monaco then through France to Paris then home??
sounds great, my only advice is 'dont try and fit too much in' unless you do really have the time. you will want to enjoy the places you visit rather than just being on the road all the time.
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Re: Road Trip Ideas

Post by Rick_RS4 » Wed Sep 30, 2015 12:50 pm

toyneg wrote:
Rick_RS4 wrote:I've had a quick look what about calais through Switzerland. Milan , Venice Monaco then through France to Paris then home??
sounds great, my only advice is 'dont try and fit too much in' unless you do really have the time. you will want to enjoy the places you visit rather than just being on the road all the time.

Yeah good call. Will revise it a bit tonight. What's worth visiting between calais and lake garda

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Re: Road Trip Ideas

Post by smudge » Wed Sep 30, 2015 1:55 pm

Rick_RS4 wrote:I've had a quick look what about calais through Switzerland. Milan , Venice Monaco then through France to Paris then home??
Thats not too dis-similar to what the guys did in June, I'll see if I can dig out the route on a map for you. They had some cracking roads although Monaco and Paris weren't on there, they can be routed too easily enough.

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Re: Road Trip Ideas

Post by Eddie555 » Wed Sep 30, 2015 2:39 pm

Day 1. Home to Paris. Romantic evening stop over.
Day 2. Paris to Milan. Shopping and stop over.
Day 3. Milan to lake Garda. Have a blast up the lake Stop at Limone. (West side of lake) for lunch. Head up north of lake to Riva del Garda for the evening and stop over.
Day 4 head south down east side of lake to Peschiera for lunch and shopping. Then head to Verona for the evening as its a beautiful place for a very romantic night. ( Romeo and Juliet balcony is there).
Day5. Verona to Venice.
Day 6-7 maybe to Modena for Ferrari and plan it yourself cause i can't plan everything for you lol.
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Re: Road Trip Ideas

Post by Ozzyz » Wed Sep 30, 2015 3:02 pm

Eddie555 wrote:Day 1. Home to Paris. Romantic evening stop over.
Day 2. Paris to Milan. Shopping and stop over.
Day 3. Milan to lake Garda. Have a blast up the lake Stop at Limone. (West side of lake) for lunch. Head up north of lake to Riva del Garda for the evening and stop over.
Day 4 head south down east side of lake to Peschiera for lunch and shopping. Then head to Verona for the evening as its a beautiful place for a very romantic night. ( Romeo and Juliet balcony is there).
Day5. Verona to Venice.
Day 6-7 maybe to Modena for Ferrari and plan it yourself cause i can't plan everything for you lol.

That sounds like a great trip, Lake Garda is a beautiful place, stayed in Salo and it was lovely.

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Re: Road Trip Ideas

Post by GroundControl » Wed Sep 30, 2015 6:25 pm

I did a 10 day driving trip down to Switzerland and north Italy via Belgium and Germany in August - a lot of fun, but a long way too (3822km door to door).

Here's the route I took: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid= ... sp=sharing

Highlights for me were Lauterbrunnen (unfortunately Jungfrau was in cloud for us that day), Grimsel, Furka and Gotthard Passes, Lake Maggiore, and the San Bernadino Pass (take the old road, not the new one, and hope you don't get some plonker block the road when they crash off a hairpin :roll:). Stelvio Pass was ok, but narrow and very busy - I had more fun on some of the other passes. And of course a visit to the Nurburgring on the way home :D

Some pics here: https://goo.gl/photos/V61d52jVsbciBCsh9

And a video of driving up Furka Pass (one of my favourite passes of the trip)

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Re: Road Trip Ideas

Post by smudge » Wed Sep 30, 2015 6:39 pm

GroundControl wrote:....and hope you don't get some plonker block the road when they crash off a hairpin :roll:).
He did a grand job of fecking his Scooby up didn't he!!! :knob:

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Re: Road Trip Ideas

Post by HYFR » Thu Oct 01, 2015 10:05 pm

toyneg wrote:
HYFR wrote:tomorrow I set of to hit Black Forest, Swiss Alps 3 pass (Furka, Susten, Grimsel), back through Black Forest and hitting the Nurburgring

2,000 miles
sounds epic!!!

Yep.

Stopped at Reims GP for obligatory pics then hit the black forest B500 today. amazing.

Am currently in Basel. Hitting the Alps tomorrow !

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Re: Road Trip Ideas

Post by S4WON » Thu Oct 01, 2015 10:08 pm

Nice pics DK,

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Re: Road Trip Ideas

Post by Eddie555 » Thu Oct 01, 2015 10:11 pm

That bend looks perfect for a continental flick. :biggrin3:
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Re: Road Trip Ideas

Post by Fatneck73 » Fri Oct 02, 2015 5:38 pm

And how's the car DK?

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Re: Road Trip Ideas

Post by HYFR » Fri Oct 02, 2015 9:38 pm

WOWOWOWOW

Today I did Grimsel Pass, Furka Pass and Susten Pass ... then headed back up the Black Forest B500.

Wow!

what day.

amazing.

Grimsel was good, Furka wasnt great. but Susten !! WOW, that was AMAZING !!

then the B500, wow. The B500 is actually in 3 sections. I too the L93 to connect one to the other, and OMG, this was the best driving road I've ever been on. Then I hit the last 30miles of the B500 at 8pm so it was EMPTY and it was just epic.

Absoltuely buzzing. Loads of photos.

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Re: Road Trip Ideas

Post by doodlebug » Fri Oct 02, 2015 9:46 pm

In a filthy diesel?! Just not cricket.

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