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I've been toying with the idea of a run down the Monaco in May then onto the Stelvio pass and home, trouble is a lot of my friends wifes and girl friends are due to give birth this year, or are to broke to consider it or what ever other reasons.
I was wondering if anyone here would be interested in coming along either as a passenger or in another car just for company and safety in numbers rule?
I'm esitimating about £500 in fuel to cover the trip, and the same again in expencess for accomodation etc (camping is the main thought??), maybe a little more possibly.
Anyone interested drop me an email, or reply, would be happy to meet up for a beer and discuss in more detail. Be great to have 2 or 3 cars go as well?
I was wondering if anyone here would be interested in coming along either as a passenger or in another car just for company and safety in numbers rule?
I'm esitimating about £500 in fuel to cover the trip, and the same again in expencess for accomodation etc (camping is the main thought??), maybe a little more possibly.
Anyone interested drop me an email, or reply, would be happy to meet up for a beer and discuss in more detail. Be great to have 2 or 3 cars go as well?
Me and the guys do something similar in May every year, but on bikes. Last year I got through £900 including fuel, ferry, booze, food, tolls, hotels... that was going ot Sat PM Hull-Rotterdam and getting the same boat back the following Thursday (so 5 nights, effectively).
Stelvio was still closed by snow in late May; you could also look at the Grossglockner pass.
Ferry will probably be more expensive for a car although you can book the Chunnel well in advance and get across for buttons - it doesn't suit the routes we take though.
Tolls in France will eat up a fair few quid as will petrol: I was in Italy last September and fuel was more expensive there than here (and even worse in Switzerland). My bike does 50mpg; I wouldn't dare take the TVR as it struggles to beat 20mpg!
Best cheap hotel chain I've used in France is Kyriad: they have Formule 1 which is as cheap as chips but often in some well-dodgy looking areas; that said we did a banger rally to Rome in '08 and used F1 with no worries (although the shared facilities can be scary... podgy Europeans walking around in their undercrackers can catch you out - and that's just the women!).
Do it... you know it makes no sense at all (better still, pass your bike test and then it makes LOTS of sense!
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I think the sign says 2504m above sea level, 16 km from the Grossglockner glacier, last week in May. I had the road to myself
http://www.grossglockner.at/en/hochalpenstrasse/
Stelvio was still closed by snow in late May; you could also look at the Grossglockner pass.
Ferry will probably be more expensive for a car although you can book the Chunnel well in advance and get across for buttons - it doesn't suit the routes we take though.
Tolls in France will eat up a fair few quid as will petrol: I was in Italy last September and fuel was more expensive there than here (and even worse in Switzerland). My bike does 50mpg; I wouldn't dare take the TVR as it struggles to beat 20mpg!
Best cheap hotel chain I've used in France is Kyriad: they have Formule 1 which is as cheap as chips but often in some well-dodgy looking areas; that said we did a banger rally to Rome in '08 and used F1 with no worries (although the shared facilities can be scary... podgy Europeans walking around in their undercrackers can catch you out - and that's just the women!).
Do it... you know it makes no sense at all (better still, pass your bike test and then it makes LOTS of sense!
)I think the sign says 2504m above sea level, 16 km from the Grossglockner glacier, last week in May. I had the road to myself
http://www.grossglockner.at/en/hochalpenstrasse/
me and a mate are thinking of doing a eurotrip as a sort of stag do.
don't know when we will get round,
but plan would be chunnel then down to monaco via reims (just for a photo with grandstand) then a few of the lovely twisty passes in italy and also take in swiss roads then maybe a lap at the ring, then back.
Good to see some folk can manage around £1k on the trip as for some reason we were worrying it may be £3k each.
don't know when we will get round,
but plan would be chunnel then down to monaco via reims (just for a photo with grandstand) then a few of the lovely twisty passes in italy and also take in swiss roads then maybe a lap at the ring, then back.
Good to see some folk can manage around £1k on the trip as for some reason we were worrying it may be £3k each.
ARphotographs said:
me and a mate are thinking of doing a eurotrip as a sort of stag do.
don't know when we will get round,
but plan would be chunnel then down to monaco via reims (just for a photo with grandstand) then a few of the lovely twisty passes in italy and also take in swiss roads then maybe a lap at the ring, then back.
Good to see some folk can manage around £1k on the trip as for some reason we were worrying it may be £3k each.
If you hit Switzerland, either be prepared to shell out £30 or so for their motorway insurance premium or else stay on the side roads and expect it to take a while don't know when we will get round,
but plan would be chunnel then down to monaco via reims (just for a photo with grandstand) then a few of the lovely twisty passes in italy and also take in swiss roads then maybe a lap at the ring, then back.
Good to see some folk can manage around £1k on the trip as for some reason we were worrying it may be £3k each.
I've had Chunnel crossings for a tenner with the bike before; you can get cheap deals for a car as well if you book well in advance and take an unpopular crossing time.
Hi all
I live in the SW France, and there are some lovely roads towards the pyrenees and along them, particular the route of the tour de france is quite spectacular
Getting there from Calais, as I find the tunnel cheaper, and stay in Calais overnight and head south. Some roads ar very nice until you hit the big motorwat south of paris all the way to toulouse this is quiet a long stretch, but the scenery in the south is breathtaking in some places. I must get my TVR Sagaris down this year for a little blast
Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy are just so close aswell
I live in the SW France, and there are some lovely roads towards the pyrenees and along them, particular the route of the tour de france is quite spectacular
Getting there from Calais, as I find the tunnel cheaper, and stay in Calais overnight and head south. Some roads ar very nice until you hit the big motorwat south of paris all the way to toulouse this is quiet a long stretch, but the scenery in the south is breathtaking in some places. I must get my TVR Sagaris down this year for a little blast
Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy are just so close aswell
geordieexpat said:
Hi all
I live in the SW France, and there are some lovely roads towards the pyrenees and along them, particular the route of the tour de france is quite spectacular
Getting there from Calais, as I find the tunnel cheaper, and stay in Calais overnight and head south. Some roads ar very nice until you hit the big motorwat south of paris all the way to toulouse this is quiet a long stretch, but the scenery in the south is breathtaking in some places. I must get my TVR Sagaris down this year for a little blast
Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy are just so close aswell
I live in the SW France, and there are some lovely roads towards the pyrenees and along them, particular the route of the tour de france is quite spectacular
Getting there from Calais, as I find the tunnel cheaper, and stay in Calais overnight and head south. Some roads ar very nice until you hit the big motorwat south of paris all the way to toulouse this is quiet a long stretch, but the scenery in the south is breathtaking in some places. I must get my TVR Sagaris down this year for a little blast
Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy are just so close aswell
Go through Andorra from France, turn left at La Seu D'Urguell and draw a line across the map to Roses on the coast. There are some astounding roads down there, especially if you get up into the hills. The g/f and I were down there a couple of years back on the bike and I had my helmet camera on: you can watch hours of footage where we never saw another vehicle and the road wasn't straight for more than 100 metres. Hard work in a car, bloody fantastic on a bike
The coast road from Figueres to Argeles via Cap Cerbere is superb too.
Edited by Wedg1e on Friday 4th February 18:09
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