Corazon de Leon wrote:OnlyShallow wrote:Got back from my road trip yesterday. 2556 miles, 9 countries. Epic times.
Managed to fit in all the greatest hits and some more.
I would very much like to do this trip at some point in the far flung future - how driving intensive was it?
I learned from my last trip two years ago, so it wasn't bad (last time I drove to Croatia in 2 1/2 days and was strawberry floated by the time I got there). It was just under 60 hours driving time in total and the most stressful part was driving to Dover on the first day as the M25 had 10 mile tailbacks and my satnav took me through Enfield.
I strawberry floating hate Enfield now.
Moggy wrote:OnlyShallow wrote:Got back from my road trip yesterday. 2556 miles, 9 countries. Epic times.
Managed to fit in all the greatest hits and some more.
Sounds awesome, what countries did you drive through?
I've done two awesome road trips in my life.
The first was from Toronto to Mount Rushmore (South Dakota). I didn't do any driving though which I really regret (I was only 20/21 so hire companies didn't want to touch me!).
The second was in Australia. We went from Melbourne to Adelaide, all the way up the middle to Darwin and then all the way back down the East coast through Cairns, Brisbane, Sydney and Canberra before going back to Melbourne. I drove every inch of the trip and loved it.
England (I'm counting this as it took about 5 hours to get to Dover and I ended up doing autobahn speeds to catch the ferry), France (Arras then Colmar), Switzerland (Lauterbrunnen), Italy (Lake Orta then Lake Garda), Slovenia (Postonja), Croatia (Rovinj for 5 nights), Italy again (Venice for 2 nights then Lake Como), Germany (Freiburg), Luxembourg (Clervaux) and finally Belgium (Bruges, it's a strawberry floating fairytale).
I drove it all too, as my gf doesn't want to drive my car as it is "too long" and Italian autostradas give her the total fear.