I would welcome advice as to the easiest route from France into Italy. I have no planned route in either country so the actual crossing point is not fixed.
Continental travel
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This is my route for outward journer in May this year. I am also too mean to pay tolls.
Calais,Aachen. Stutgart,Ulm, Kempten Interlarken,Brenner pass to Italy.
Comming Home will be different as it will be a case of avoiding the football.
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Norfolk Mike
Calais,Aachen. Stutgart,Ulm, Kempten Interlarken,Brenner pass to Italy.
Comming Home will be different as it will be a case of avoiding the football.
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Norfolk Mike
Mike, I think you must be confusing Interlaken with Innsbruck. Going from Kempten to the Brenner Pass via Interlaken would be a very roundabout way.
Even if you avoid motorways in Austria so that you don't have to pay the motorway toll there, you've still got the 8 Euros to pay to get over the Brenner.
Even if you avoid motorways in Austria so that you don't have to pay the motorway toll there, you've still got the 8 Euros to pay to get over the Brenner.
sorry stand navigational corrected and I cant even blame the lack of a spell checker for that one.
regards tolls in Austria and Italy at least they are value for money.
With duly smacked wrist I return to my hole
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Norfolk Mike
regards tolls in Austria and Italy at least they are value for money.
With duly smacked wrist I return to my hole
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Norfolk Mike
Hi Geoff we have travelled to Italy a few times and also being too mean to pay the French tolls found that the prefered route for us was Lille, Charleroi, Luxemburg (to stock up with cheap fuel and beer), Kaiserslautern, Stuttgart, Munich, Innsbruck and into Italy. We never had any problems with traffic and were able to keep up good speeds. We were heading for Lake Garda and Venice.
Many thanks to all those who have bothered to send me routes to Italy. However, apart from autoroute tolls, which could well be offset by reduced fuel costs,what is wrong with taking as straight a line as possible from Calais to the Italian border?
Which part of Italy are you heading for ? I have towed a caravan 3 times from 2002-2004 and still go each year with a tent so can advise you best route to take. Regards Tom
Thanks, Tom. We have no fixed itinerary - the idea is to make a circular journey (either clockwise or anti) taking in the lakes, Rome and bits of the east and west coast in the process. My wife is a keen gardener and we will be looking at as many classical gardens as possible. My original request was for the easiest (least "hilly") route - we can pick up any route once in Italy.
Thanks again.
Geof.
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