Epic Euro Road Trip - FULL REPORT

[Jason_E]

Amazing write up, amazing pics. I think my general feeling about this, is amazing.

BTW, my connection is at about 56k atm so it took exactly 2 hours and 41 mins to fully load this page

 

[Rob]

FLOL at the 56k comment!

Great read, great pics, i'm not a fan of threads full of just pics, (unless its in the munson's definition of pics) nice to see someone giving a decent account of whats going on.

Looks like an amazing trip, my friends and i are planning to do the same next year but in three hot hatches, with 6 of us i hope. Your pics have definately inspired me and made me think its worth doing.

Car looks cracking on those wheels too!

 

[spartan]

pics are insane mate!! looks like you had a good time.

 

[Andy.]

Amazing trip by the look of it. Nice touch with the ring web cam photos too!

Would love to do this one day, but will have to wait for the kids to grow up a bit. Hearing "are we nearly there yet" for hours and hours and hours would take some of the enjoyment out of it.

 

[Sean.]

cracking write up there my friend, well done, looks like you had a good trip. Great photo's. gonna try and rope my mrs's into this trip soon!

A bit out of context here, but im going to 'go outdoors' this week to pick up a tent, your looks like what ive been looking at. what tent is that and how much was it, spacious enough for two of you and all your gear, comfortable, didnt leak? etc, feel free to drop me a pm.

Sean

 

[-J-]

Really interesting write up and some amazing roads / Pictures.

Something I would really love to do myself!

 

[pip.]

My absolute pleasure. I'm really glad to hear you enjoyed the museum. Ace isn't it.

Some great pics there and the views at Lauterbrunnen look ace. Fancy waking up to that.:approve:
I wish there were more tunnels over here.

How did you manage to do the 'ring cam thing?

Martin.

 

[Spiezels]

Looks f**king ace mate. Some great photos.

Good idea for a holiday that.

 

[seb]

did you get a guide book (other than the camper one) to give ideas of where you wanted to go at all?

 

[Topgeartom]

My absolute pleasure. I'm really glad to hear you enjoyed the museum. Ace isn't it.

Some great pics there and the views at Lauterbrunnen look ace. Fancy waking up to that.:approve:
I wish there were more tunnels over here.

How did you manage to do the 'ring cam thing?

Martin.

Such an amazing place - we only had about 4 and a haf hours there which wasnt nearly enough.

The ring cam is available here - just pick the date you were there and cycle through the times.

http://www.8200rpm.com/webcam/

did you get a guide book (other than the camper one) to give ideas of where you wanted to go at all?

Other than the alan rogers campsite guides we had a rough guide to the italian lakes but i didnt look at that at all. We just sort of knew where we wanted to head really.

I'd been to quite a few of the places we vistied as a kid about 14 years ago with my family so they seemed like cool places to go back to.

 

[adamlewis01]

just a little jealous Looks like you had a fantastic time!

 

[Djw John]

Really want to do something similar, have done for years. Considering driving to the Algarve next year from Edinburgh!

 

[v15ben]

Lol I agree about the woman at the campsite office. I am sure she could speak English but just pretended not to so that she could get some extra cash! We got charged for the last day when we left at 9am

 

[mikey123]

Im going to have to do this now!!

 

[agil]

Really Beautiful postcards

 

[Gaz85]

looks amazing mate, some epic views there, would love to attempt this one year sadly i feel it wont happen!

but great read and pics

 

[Topgeartom]

Lol I agree about the woman at the campsite office. I am sure she could speak English but just pretended not to so that she could get some extra cash! We got charged for the last day when we left at 9am

Yeh shes blatently putting things up your bottom sideways. I dont think there is another campsite in all of Europe that charges per day rather than per night.

Its like going to a hotel and them charging you for how many windows there are in the room.

She needs a f**king shave too.

 

[rbolton]

looks like an awesome trip mate. i hope to do something similar in a few years when i can get a sport

 

[jcrawford7]

that looks insane! awesome pics and write up...i was ment to do a similar thing with the student gumball rally, but to croatia and back...shame it fell thru tho. mayb next year!

 

[Paul RN]

Is he your boyfriend?

I have to say I was thinking the same!

looks like a great trip all the same and some fantastic photos

 

[Topgeartom]

LOL no although i'll agree that one picture is fantastically homosexual

 

[stevo172-RWD]

great pics
great trip

cant wait till my trip in aug!
not long.

 

[The Boosh!]

Sounds like a right good trip that mate, How much did it cost you all together?

would love to do this some day!

 

[number1]

Epic Trip, Kinda nuts Really as i Swear in the First pic of you entering the Ring, MY mate chris is in the background in his Audi Estate, If im right he was accompanied with a williams, 172/182 and a puma..

Its a Small world!!

 

[Topgeartom]

Epic Trip, Kinda nuts Really as i Swear in the First pic of you entering the Ring, MY mate chris is in the background in his Audi Estate, If im right he was accompanied with a williams, 172/182 and a puma..

Its a Small world!!

Hahaa!

I had a good chat with all those guys, particularly the dude with the williams.

The guy in the RS2 was nuts, he came back with his brakes billowing smoke.

They were on the same campsite as us too!

Small world indeed.

 

[Kerryclio]

OMG bet the trip was awesome

 

[CHRIS172CUP]

one of the best threads i've read on here in ages. su-fcuking-perb.

i'd love to do that one day.

 

[Iain C]

great thread.nice one

 

[jordan172]

this is an epic thread,

great pics and a lovely rs clio you have.

 

[tommy g]

wow ide love to do this with my mates. was there much planning involed before hand? if so how did you know where to go?

 

[boomerbang2006]

Wow that was awesome,just glued to the screen,and the pics of the winding road look like the scene in james bond goldfinger!,wonder if it was the same stretch they used...great trip.

 

[DannyR]

Loving the bump of this, I missed this thread earlier on! I need to do something like this next year!

 

[Jonaldinho]

How did I miss this!!

Superb pics and write up mate.

 

[Needster]

Absolutely awesome, didn't catch this first time round but I'm certainly glad I've read it now. Pictures are truly superb - stunning in fact -and it looks so much fun.

You're making me want to do it now. LOL!

 

[DannoTheGreat]

what an awesome road trip!

 

[Jat_172cup]

Epic pics mate!

But this is THE campest pic ever

 

[Topgeartom]

Epic pics mate!

But this is THE campest pic ever

LOL yeh i had no idea it would come out quite so 'brokeback' when i took it.

And for whoever it was that asked the major planning happened pretty much 2 days before. Obviously some stuff was sorted beforehand like buying all the guff for the trip and getting a swiss vignette tax sticker from the office in london, but we didnt have a proper route worked out until about 48hrs before we got on the ferry.

 

[bartebk]

That beats any package holiday,Brilliant!

 

[Lukas1]

Bumpity Bump

Epic Epic Epic, planning to do something similar this year with the Mrs, just wondering, what wheels you have on the PH1, they are awesome, or if anyone could tell me?

Anyone planning something similar this summer?

Lukas

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Yep, Im going with a group on here in June. Cant wait!!