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Touring
A place for people to post details of touring trips that they have completed for others to see.
Touring forum rules
You Must
1. Title your tour like any other posting. ie: "Snapper Tours France"
2. Brief details of your tour to start off with that must contain the following;
Where the trip takes you
Number of Days Taken
Number of Miles
Special travel arrangements like ferries & Euro Tunnel
3. Full details of the trip, containing the following:
Day by Day Guide to what you did.
Route details
What you went to see. ie; Attractions, Historical Places, View Points
Weblinks to what you went to see
Places you stayed in and recommendations
Weblinks for the places you stayed in
Contact details for the places you stayed in, including addresses & phone numbers
Places to eat, with Contact details, including Addresses & Phone Numbers & Web Links
4. Details of costs incurred
5. Some pictures from the trip
6. Any advice for touring in that region, country that would be helpful, like
motorway passes
45 topics in this forum
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Well yes, finally - after having the Elise for nearly twenty years it's time for the 'pilgrimage' ! Early September because the schools will be back. I'm taking my S1 to Stelvio, but also interesting in other driving roads / passes in the area. There are many online recommendations but I'm always more interested in personal anecdotes. Online guides list so many "must drives" I'd be there until the snows came in Quite like the idea of continuing on to Slovenia and checking out the Mangart Saddle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangart_Saddle Someone mentioned Mondsee area of Austria on another thread, quite like that because I worked in southern Germany many y…
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Playing a game of pin the tail on the donkey with a map of Europe, and I'm thinking of completing the Top Gear trinity, I've done Stelvio and the Trollstiggen so .... ..that just leaves the Transfagarasan Highway. Rough planning stages but Hull ferry over to Rotterdam, then down through Germany into Austria. Vienna is on the bucket list before heading off to Budapest. Down from here to the start of the 150km long road, on the way to Bucharest. Ideally I'd like to get as far as the black sea, before heading back through some more of the Balkans. Any tips?
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Scandinavia Trip 1 2 3
by kayj_prod- 32 replies
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I've been wanting to drive around Norway for quite some time now, and so finally this year I've managed to keep hold of a two week gap to make the most of such a trip. Will get to really test my Probax seat re-upholstring. Obviously with Simon Mac's recent voyage, this is something that at least one of us has recent experience of... though I don't have the aim for getting to the arctic circle! Here is the route I have planned at the moment. I'm just looking at whether I can do the Stockholm segment as I looked more into road speeds and it is going to take me longer to get from point to point than I first thought as a lot of the areas of Norway I'll be visiting have lo…
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CENTRAL LOTUS ORGANISED Any one interested in driving through some of the best roads Europe has to offer, with Paris, Frankfurt & Milan on the way to watch possibly the greatest F1 show in mainland Europe?
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North Wales Trip 1 2
by mwn11- 19 replies
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Have been posting on Seloc since buying my first Lotus and figured i should start posting on a board that is probably more local to me Also attended a Lotus Drivers Club meeting which is held close to me and got to meet some really friendly people so will hopefully be attending more of these. First proper trip and chance to spend some real time with it since picking it up beginning of june. Started down the M'Way to shrewsbury. Stopped for a bite to eat there and then started up to Oswestry and turning down the B4396 onto the B4391 after many suggestions to try this road. Stopped for some photos of the car. Stopped at the Royal Oak in Betws y Coed which had be…
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Newbie here with what's seems a stupid question. Anyone suggest any exige friendly multi-storey car parks in Birmingham? Don't want to get half way up before dragging the car back down each level on the front splitter. Dan
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France Trip
by a7esk- 13 replies
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Kick of with Lemans then Dijon then finished of at Arras , What a car lots of interest people taken photos even driving around Paris that's was fun not but van drivers taking photos . Back home tomorrow the wash and polish . Eddie
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Had the pleasure of driving this road the other week, can thoroughly recommend it, better than a lot of the roads in Wales I've driven, just a shame i was driving it in the pouring rain, our Audi A4 quattro performed well though......need to get the passenger seat repaired now where the missus' nails have dug in! Just a shame its a 5.5 hour drive away
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I have got this list of cameras anyone know if theyre all included?....... Motorway Junction to Junction M1 13 19 24 25 28 31 32 35a 39 42 M3 2 4a 9 14 M4 3 12 M6 2 4 4a 6 10a 13 13 15 16 19 21a 26 M20 …
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Well seeing as the Suns been out, me and the wife decided to take a few days off work and head down to North Wales to take in the "Evo Triangle" and Llanberis Pass. Set off early Thursday and drove to the hotel to drop the bags off. We stayed at the Groes inn at Conwy. Evo magazine stay here when doing "shoots" in Wales. Would definitely recommend it, great food / room. (Ignore the disabled parking sign, only parked there for the photo lol) Great view to wake up to! Decided to do the "Evo Triangle" the first day, then Llanberis Pass, Snowdonia the second. There's loads of reviews about the "Evo Triangle" so no point doing another. What I will say i…
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As a couple of guys have been caught by the fuzz over the last weekend, I wonder if we should advertise runs out on this forum. Is that the correct thing to do? Is anyone up for a drive out on Sunday? Can anyone suggest a route or better still, be a guide? Maybe meet at the usual place at the usual time and go from there. If no ones up for it, no dramas, but its my last shebang before I go out of the country for 3 months. Any takers...
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Please be aware that the law regarding speed cameras in France changed recently, and it is now an offence to have any device that identifies the location of cameras, including POIs in Sat Navs. Radar detectors were banned a while ago but "Les Bleus" have now banned everything basically. The offence is having it so if you go to France ensure that the function in your Sat Nav is switched off before you enter France. The penalty is up to 1500 Euros!!!
Last reply by Numbnutz, -
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So I bought this tiny plastic car 9 years ago, and you know how it is, you get married, have children, and the plastic car gets forgotten in the garage. So I convince SWMBO that it is a good idea to dump the children at my parents and spend the weekend in France and fitting in some Champagne tasting whilst we are at it. (Can you guess at which point she agreed?) Oh and she hadn't even sat in the car since she was pregnant with anklebiter no.1 which was 4 years ago. So day 1, the drive from Staffordshire to Amiens, via the tunnel. IMGP3274 by erkflik, on Flickr Sunset, still not at the hotel yet IMGP3297 by erkflik, on Flickr Day 2…
Last reply by MrSimba, -
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last weekend we compleated a 400mile trip around wales from my hometown in hereford , on to welshpool , balla a frw laps around the evo triangle then through snowdonia , around anglesey , back down through snowdonia , machynlleth to rhayader then down to brecon and home to hereford , will do this again
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Hi All, Next week i'm off to Tenby, Wales and instead of sitting on all the main roads or motorways i'd love to tour through the Brecon Beacons for the first time. I've come up with a route based on a couple of roads i've heard mentioned a few times on here, but I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions or roads that are a must? Thanks in advance! Phil http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&sour...580902&z=11 Edit, another option... I could plan a route there and a different route back home, if the weather is great on both the days i'm traveling.
Last reply by melanie,