European jaunt

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:58 pm

The autostrada around the amalfi coast/around Naples is epic...
You're bombing along with countryside (full of rubbish natch) either side of you, then suddenly you get a rock face either side, the opposite crriageway drops away out of sight, then the rock face on one side dissappears and you realise you're several hundred feet up and all you see beyond the arnco is a big drop and then sea! Then they chuck some random short tunnel sections and curves into the fray too, just to mix it up some more

Angus · Post by **Angus** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:39 pm

The autostrada from Turin to Venice (and thence Trieste) is terribly dull, too - but there's not half some brilliant stopping-off points on the way! I'd happily go and live in Verona.

Rome to Florence - we stopped at Siena for a night, took the wrong motorway exit and ended up going up over some tiny back roads through the Chianti wine region. That was quite nice, bit of guess work involved in actually finding Siena though!

On the way down, as said above, pretty dull road. My memory is of getting out of the air conditioned car into 40 degree heat at a service station. Blimey. Then you get to what looks like a final toll station and think you've reached the Roman ring road - but you're still miles and miles away.

Best continental motorways I've found are Slovenia and Hungary, with Czech ones not too far behind. Mostly because they're all recently built. We went through Slovenia one year and it was back roads a lot of the way from Italy to Hungary. Two years later there was new super-smooth motorway through tunnels and over bridges stretching the whole country. And it's taken 30 years for them to even think about a city bypass at Aberdeen ...

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:44 pm

Angus wrote:Rome to Florence - we stopped at Siena for a night, took the wrong motorway exit and ended up going up over some tiny back roads through the Chianti wine region. That was quite nice, bit of guess work involved in actually finding Siena though!

Not surprised after a few glasses of Chianti!

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 11:30 pm

driving through chianti is cool past poggibonsi to san gimiangno

nitin_s1 · Post by **nitin_s1** » Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:36 am

What about going to a Road trip to India?

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:37 am

nitin_s1 wrote:What about going to a Road trip to India?

I don't think you would get out of wembley

nitin_s1 · Post by **nitin_s1** » Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:43 am

Jokes aside; there is this couple that did it. Going through like 24 countries etc and reached there in 14 days..

Let's just stick to Europe..

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:48 am

yeah they did it but its not the safest way of getting to india

nitin_s1 · Post by **nitin_s1** » Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:52 am

mercutio wrote:yeah they did it but its not the safest way of getting to india

Yup specailly they went through Islamic countries having India flags on their bonnet..

But I think their parents were MP and politicians so there always someone watching over them..

Ok back to topic.

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Tue Jun 25, 2013 9:35 pm

I've got a long list somewhere of Britain's top driving roads - over 2500 miles of 'em - and always fancied linking them together on a long road trip. Trouble is, not only would this double the mileage and take nearly 3 weeks, but I'd no doubt find that half of the sections on the list are rubbish these days.

However, it begs the question. Could we all suggest some good bits and see if there isn't some sort of tour we could concoct that would suit a good number of us? Staying in GB would keep the costs down, as has already been pointed out.