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Originally Posted by ZenGum
Speaking as a person who has never been to Europe ...
If you're going for the European culture and scenery, you're moving way too fast and are going to miss heaps.
If you are going for the road-trip driving experience, do the autobarn, the Italian alps, and that highway in Romania that Top Gear endorse as the best road in the world.
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For another view of the roads, watch The Italian Job, the original with Michael Caine, not the remake (good in its own right).
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Originally Posted by ZenGum
Well, if it is serendipitous adventure you want ...
Buy a paper map.
Draw a giant dick across the continent.
Follow the lines of the dick.
Just make sure the tip doesn't touch the sea, else you'd be incontinent while in continent, and you wouldn't want that.
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I disagree, everybody's got to pee.
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Originally Posted by grynch
you talk about taking rural back roads etc... and then google says it's only 5 24hrs !!  guess what.. that is highway driving I'm sure
marseille to Geneva on highway would be about 6 hours (without pee breaks ) plus another 3 to Zurich ...
on the backroads?... that leg of the trip is a full day driving in itself again without pee breaks, gas breaks, food, and asuming you don't get stuck behind a french farmer with a tractor load of parsnips
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welcome back grynch!!
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waaay back in the day, Tink and I flew into Paris and drove around Europe for a few days. We made a rough counterclockwise stagger around the continent, sleeping in the car, collecting passport stamps along the way. We left from Calais and went to Dover, walked up to the window to get our stamp and then directly to the return line. Ah, good times.
