(hypothetical) Europe Road Trip! - Page 2

infinite monkey · 03-16-2012, 08:03 AM

Hey grynch. Where have you been????????

I want to go to Switzerland something fierce. Look up some distant relatives.

grynch · 03-16-2012, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Hey grynch. Where have you been????????

I want to go to Switzerland something fierce. Look up some distant relatives.

alien abduction

re. switzerland... now is the time... a very cold winter is coming to an end

infinite monkey · 03-16-2012, 08:17 AM

Frickin' frackin' aliens. They PROMISED me I'd be next.

ZenGum · 03-16-2012, 08:18 AM

You just want the probing, donchya?

infinite monkey · 03-16-2012, 08:19 AM

Yes. And treats.

grynch · 03-16-2012, 08:38 AM

those probes.. ya, know you'd think they could warm them up just a 'wee bit first.

ya know what I'm sayin?

monster · 03-17-2012, 08:09 PM

No fucking way Ib. As one who has travelled extensively in Europe and is happy to "do" a city in a couple of hourse, it won't work. You'd be lucky to manage a third of that in a month.

BigV · 03-17-2012, 08:14 PM

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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.

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.

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

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.

ZenGum · 03-17-2012, 09:07 PM

Ehh, just listen to this:

Ibby · 03-22-2012, 08:50 PM

What if I connect E there on the map to J skipping spain, and N to T skipping the czech republic and scandinavia?

monster · 03-22-2012, 09:01 PM

better, but what's the mileage and what's your longest road trip so far? Why not go by train?

monster · 03-22-2012, 09:19 PM

OK. tell me the attraction in each city. There's a lot of France in there. And you really can miss Belgium. And probably Switzerland......

monster · 03-22-2012, 09:23 PM

Don't miss Paris unless you've already been there, do take in Carcassonne. Northwest of France. mmmmmm not really necessary.

monster · 03-22-2012, 09:25 PM

Oh, and why Florence? Go to Rome.

Rhianne · 03-22-2012, 09:45 PM

No. Avoid ALL the cities.

03-16-2012, 08:18 AM	#19
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03-17-2012, 08:09 PM	#22
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	No fucking way Ib. As one who has travelled extensively in Europe and is happy to "do" a city in a couple of hourse, it won't work. You'd be lucky to manage a third of that in a month. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-17-2012, 09:07 PM	#24
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Ehh, just listen to this: __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

03-22-2012, 08:50 PM	#25
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	What if I connect E there on the map to J skipping spain, and N to T skipping the czech republic and scandinavia? __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

03-22-2012, 09:01 PM	#26
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	better, but what's the mileage and what's your longest road trip so far? Why not go by train? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-16-2012, 08:03 AM	#16
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Hey grynch. Where have you been???????? I want to go to Switzerland something fierce. Look up some distant relatives.

03-16-2012, 08:17 AM	#18
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Frickin' frackin' aliens. They PROMISED me I'd be next.

03-16-2012, 08:19 AM	#20
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Yes. And treats.

03-16-2012, 08:38 AM	#21
grynch the big Cheese Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Switzerland Posts: 390	those probes.. ya, know you'd think they could warm them up just a 'wee bit first. ya know what I'm sayin?

03-22-2012, 09:19 PM	#27
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	OK. tell me the attraction in each city. There's a lot of France in there. And you really can miss Belgium. And probably Switzerland...... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-22-2012, 09:23 PM	#28
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Don't miss Paris unless you've already been there, do take in Carcassonne. Northwest of France. mmmmmm not really necessary. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-22-2012, 09:25 PM	#29
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Oh, and why Florence? Go to Rome. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

03-22-2012, 09:45 PM	#30
Rhianne Nearly done. Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Teetering on the edge. Posts: 1,134	No. Avoid ALL the cities.

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