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Driving Routes Through Europe

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mackit:
I've always wanted to mix the enjoyment of what a holiday abroad normally brings, i.e. visting new places, relaxing, nice food, drink, etc., with the pleasure of driving through some fantastic roads and scenery.  Always been jealous of the Topgear guys running various supercars through Europe and i know a number of you have traveled through Europe in your cars.

As much as i would love to go the Nurburgring i think i couldn't sell that one to the wife.   :sad1:

Has anyone got any good routes they've driven?  Looking at routes that involve running down various parts of France, routes down to northern Italy or into Luxemburg and/or Switzerland.

My parents are lucky enough to have a place just south of Angouleme, which is basically 1.5 hours inland fom Bordeaux.  Never driven down before but would love to pick out a really enjoyable route and stop over somewhere half way down.

If anyone has experience of this please share your routes such as how many days you ran it over, where you stopped over, nice places to stay, eat, sites to visit, any specific roads you went through that are really enjoyable/challenging to drive. 

Would be really grateful.

 :driver:

Chris.

vRS Carl:
Have you got a TomTom?

If so you can drive the Stelvio Pass route they did on Top Gear as you can download the route for free.

cmdrfire:
Drove to Geneva once. It was fairly monotonous, except for the bit going into Geneva - I avoided the tunnel and instead went on all the small twisty roads, right over CERN and the LHC. Great fun, except finding a French petrol station that was open on a Saturday! Had a few terrifying moments where I was down to 5 miles on the readout and a needle at the stop :S

S2 Ant:
I was recently away in France / Germany / Lux on my bike with friends, we just put in the destination in the Sat-Nav then told it to avoid motorways and avoid tolls and went cross country all the way there. Road quality is superb, all as smooth as a babies bum, even the country roads in the middle of no where, nice twisties and some interesting villages and sights to be seen as well.

Just depends what you're looking for as i know what i find fun on the bike might not be the same for you in a car.

mackit:

--- Quote from: Mater on May 24, 2010, 03:04:47 pm ---Have you got a TomTom?

If so you can drive the Stelvio Pass route they did on Top Gear as you can download the route for free.



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Oh yes....what a route.  I have the factory Sat Nav but i guess i could find the milestone points in the journey and plug it in.


--- Quote from: cmdrfire on May 24, 2010, 03:12:12 pm ---Drove to Geneva once. It was fairly monotonous, except for the bit going into Geneva - I avoided the tunnel and instead went on all the small twisty roads, right over CERN and the LHC. Great fun, except finding a French petrol station that was open on a Saturday! Had a few terrifying moments where I was down to 5 miles on the readout and a needle at the stop :S

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Been in that situation before.  Must have been pretty damn nerve racking being in that situation on foreign soil!!  :scared:


--- Quote from: S2 Ant on May 24, 2010, 04:20:35 pm ---I was recently away in France / Germany / Lux on my bike with friends, we just put in the destination in the Sat-Nav then told it to avoid motorways and avoid tolls and went cross country all the way there. Road quality is superb, all as smooth as a babies bum, even the country roads in the middle of no where, nice twisties and some interesting villages and sights to be seen as well.

Just depends what you're looking for as i know what i find fun on the bike might not be the same for you in a car.

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Yes....i think setting avoid tolls in the sat nav is the best way to experience the likes of France, Germany, etc.  Very different experience again on a bike.

It does annoy me how poor many of our roads are compared to countries like France.  We pay more tax on fuel and thus you'd think this would be used to keep roads tip top.    :sad1:

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