Time has finally come to set off on the 2019 Road trip. A few people had asked about routes, costs etc so thought I'd fire this up as a way of documenting this year's trip.
Had done one last year - Gav525's Euro Road Trip but this one is just us on our own. Last year's was great, though at time we felt we never got enough time at hotels, and some long days, so going it alone this time.
End goal is the F1 in Hungary next weekend so have planned a route to get there which involves the Nurburgring, AMG factory(not sure if I'll get a tour or not), all the mountain passes that I can fit in, and then across to Budapest and back home via Slovenia, Italy and South of France. Final stop at Caffeine and Machine on the way through England then home again.
This time I'm trying to limit it to 6-7hr days as that's a nice easy pace. We've one 12hr day I think to get us from Budapest back to Italy.
Have used AA route planner to plan each night stop and hotels all booked already through booking.com. Some hotels are semi nice, others a simple somewhere to rest the head for the night.
In Budapest we've got an Airbnb for 3 nights as worked out cheaper, and also in Dijon we have one for 2 nights to go wine tasting/get blocked on the way home.
Bit of craic anyways, and gives me a chance to thrash the C63 for a bit. Ideally it would have sold and I'd be in something else, but always next year for that.
Keeping tabs on fuel costs(
) just out of curiosity really.
Set off this morning via Cars and Coffee at Down Royal and currently on the ferry from Dublin to Holyhead
Had done one last year - Gav525's Euro Road Trip but this one is just us on our own. Last year's was great, though at time we felt we never got enough time at hotels, and some long days, so going it alone this time.
End goal is the F1 in Hungary next weekend so have planned a route to get there which involves the Nurburgring, AMG factory(not sure if I'll get a tour or not), all the mountain passes that I can fit in, and then across to Budapest and back home via Slovenia, Italy and South of France. Final stop at Caffeine and Machine on the way through England then home again.
This time I'm trying to limit it to 6-7hr days as that's a nice easy pace. We've one 12hr day I think to get us from Budapest back to Italy.
Have used AA route planner to plan each night stop and hotels all booked already through booking.com. Some hotels are semi nice, others a simple somewhere to rest the head for the night.
In Budapest we've got an Airbnb for 3 nights as worked out cheaper, and also in Dijon we have one for 2 nights to go wine tasting/get blocked on the way home.
Bit of craic anyways, and gives me a chance to thrash the C63 for a bit. Ideally it would have sold and I'd be in something else, but always next year for that.
Keeping tabs on fuel costs(
) just out of curiosity really.Set off this morning via Cars and Coffee at Down Royal and currently on the ferry from Dublin to Holyhead
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think I managed 25mpg over a 60 mile trip once, and at the end started brapping it through the port tunnel