Jo Hymer Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Planning on touring for a month in September (first major trip in the Hymercar), but with a week or so in the Tuscany, Umbria area of Italy and then onto Croatia for another block of time. Fairly relaxed about the routes there and back ie whether via France, Germany, Switzerland etc, BUT I am keen to avoid steep climbs, mountain passes and hairpin bends, so would be interested to hear what routes you all use when negotiating the alps in particular. Cheers Jo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Madge Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Jo, Our prefered route through the Alps is Calais/Dunkirk then Luxembourg (cheap fags/fuel), Strasbourg, Basle, St Gothard Tunnel, Milan. You will need a vignette for the Swiss motorways, SF40 (£17.30) buy it at the border using plastic/SF/Euros. This is an all year round route and there are no steep climbs, mountain passes or hairpin bends. Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 We did it Don's way last Christmas in the snow! It was fine, though slippery in places, but would be great in September. On the way to Basel we stopped off in Champagne to stock up on the obvious! As Don says, if you do the Gothard tunnel, there are no steep climbs etc. It's pretty much motorway (A2/E25 if I remember rightly) all the way. Although the Swiss Vignette is available in Basel at the border, I have been told that it can be quite a wait if it is busy. Not sure if this is true or not, but they are easily purchased on line at https://www.swisstravelsystem.comOn our return from Tuscany/Umbria we decided to drive via Liguria and the Cote d'Azure, stopping at the usual places along the coast, then heading north near Marseille, straight into Cotes du Rhone, Hermitage, Burgundy etc to stock up on more of the obvious!!!If you are internet savvy, one trick when wondering what a drive will be like is to download google earth and zoom in on the route. By doing an earth tilt you can actually do the drive 3 dimensionally and it is marvellous!!Hope you have a great trip! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enrico Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Sorry to be so thick,but what is google earth and how can I get it.I can only just press these keys to type so if anyone is offering advise then please in simple English that an idiot can understand. (!) (!) (!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michele Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 go on google ....type in google earth play around put in your post code see where you want /france england any where not alway's good clarity but most of it is good ....gooodluck :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greynomad Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Enrico, Google Earth is not an online service but an application that you must download and install. It is free but you must have Broadband and need a reasonably modern computer (say not more than four years old).Go to: http://earth.google.com when the website appears, click the Get Google Earth link. The installation file is a little over 10Mb in size, which should take a couple of minutes to download via broadband. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michele Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 just show's you boy's with toy's know everything ......Someone my son husband must of just done it I just thought it was alway's there haha.. aside all that it is good especially when you tilt it ..........but as I say clarity it's not fantastic on everything.......Just had a parrot installed have not a clue will have to get the boy's I don't know feeling old all this technology it run's away with me....My husband does try to explain . I tell him I don't want to know how to build a watch just tell the time.....still some women like it , NOT FOr ME to complicated I call them boy's toys Gadgets gadgets :-| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enrico Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Thanks all.Just downloaded and will be looking at it shortly. :-) :-) :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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