My euro trip route... Please advise.
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Hello all.
I've now booked my Eurotunnel crossing and all of my hotels. But I want to ensure that I'm using the best roads and taking in the best passes in between stops. I'm going to start with my 2nd days drive and two pics demonstrating what I have so far.
Trip basics:
•14 day trip
• Using a Lotus Exige S, (wife in the passenger seat)
• Using tyre route planner and plan to buy old school TomTom to download route into.
Can you guys please look over the route and let me know if it looks good or am I missing a trick. I'm keen not to bite off more than I can chew in terms of miles/hours behind the wheel per day.
To start with here is my journey from Bad Durkheim to Solden taking in the Fernpass en route. Miles 285, 05:19hrs.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
I've now booked my Eurotunnel crossing and all of my hotels. But I want to ensure that I'm using the best roads and taking in the best passes in between stops. I'm going to start with my 2nd days drive and two pics demonstrating what I have so far.
Trip basics:
•14 day trip
• Using a Lotus Exige S, (wife in the passenger seat)
• Using tyre route planner and plan to buy old school TomTom to download route into.
Can you guys please look over the route and let me know if it looks good or am I missing a trick. I'm keen not to bite off more than I can chew in terms of miles/hours behind the wheel per day.
To start with here is my journey from Bad Durkheim to Solden taking in the Fernpass en route. Miles 285, 05:19hrs.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Hello Mike,
Your maps are too small to see the detail on. I suggest you create them in Googlemaps and share so that we can see close up and scan the various route sections.
If you don’t know how, here is one way.
You’ve created your map in Tyre
In the drop down under file, click “save as” and save it as a “kmz” file in “my docs”.
Open Google Maps and click on “Create Map”. Click “import” in the dialogue box.
Then select the file on your computer that you stored in “my docs”. Click on that and your Tyre map will download into Google Maps in a manner that we can all see it.
Don’t forget to click “Share”
So, your finished map should look like this - much easier to see.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=z1ahuj2hTEP...
Your maps are too small to see the detail on. I suggest you create them in Googlemaps and share so that we can see close up and scan the various route sections.
If you don’t know how, here is one way.
You’ve created your map in Tyre
In the drop down under file, click “save as” and save it as a “kmz” file in “my docs”.
Open Google Maps and click on “Create Map”. Click “import” in the dialogue box.
Then select the file on your computer that you stored in “my docs”. Click on that and your Tyre map will download into Google Maps in a manner that we can all see it.
Don’t forget to click “Share”
So, your finished map should look like this - much easier to see.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=z1ahuj2hTEP...
Edited by Zed 44 on Tuesday 12th April 20:32
Me and my mates have just drove back from Austria, 1000 miles. I found the drive OK, only traffic was on the Austria / Germany border.
Don't forget to get the car toll sticker if you are going into Austria.
Be aware of cars doing 150mph+ on the unrestricted roads in Germany, they come up on you very quickly!
Another thing is, if you are driving through the night, some of the autobahns don't have petrol stations, I was getting quite worried at 3 in the morning when the range was getting low!
Don't forget to get the car toll sticker if you are going into Austria.
Be aware of cars doing 150mph+ on the unrestricted roads in Germany, they come up on you very quickly!
Another thing is, if you are driving through the night, some of the autobahns don't have petrol stations, I was getting quite worried at 3 in the morning when the range was getting low!
Cabrony said:
Just for starters you are missing the B500 through the Black Forest!
The B500 is a much more interesting road than most in Britain. However, it does carry a lot of commercial and tourist traffic and is also heavily policed. Much better are the "L" roads which are equivalent to our "B" roads. Pick any that look twisty on a map and you are sure to be rewarded.
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