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Tim

I can get you as far as the Swiss border at Basle but cant help after that.

Leave Dunkerque and use the A25 to Lille. Follow signs to Tournai and then Mons then follow motorway East to Namur then turn South on A4 towards Luxembourg. Heading towards Metz. All this section is toll free. Take the A4 to Strasbourg leaving at Saverne and head south onto the A35 (free) to the Swiss border. All very easy. With your size of outfit you will will find it a lot easier on the motorways. As for somewhere to stop we have just come back from Alsace and there is a very good municipal at Ribeauville just North of Colmar and just a few miles from the motorway. It's a good drive from Dunkerques but at about 390 miles and a 7.00am start you could do it in 3 X 130 mile stretches ariving about teatime. There a plenty of eating places in the town centre about 10 mins walk.

harryB 

If you are going down through the Mont Blanc Tunnel.  A couple of nights at the L'Escale Campsite at Grand Bornand (45 minutes before Mont Blanc tunnel)  This is a lovely site in a "chocolate box style swiss chalet village".  Nice restuarant and close to village with staying a couple of nights (we managed 14 and still didnt want to go home).

Julie

Where are you first planning to stop in Italy?

If your heading for the lakes Como and Garda I would reccomend Belguim, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria coming into Italy through the Brenner pass by far the easiest journey plenty of campsites to stop at if feeling tired and no tolls until Austria. You can follow the E routes that take from motorway to motorway without having to worry about which junction to take as you simply follow the E route that you want. Very easy relaxing journey if you would like more details on the route just ask, Ciao

Quote: Originally posted by Nero on 12/7/2006

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Where are you first planning to stop in Italy?

If your heading for the lakes Como and Garda I would reccomend Belguim, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria coming into Italy through the Brenner pass by far the easiest journey plenty of campsites to stop at if feeling tired and no tolls until Austria. You can follow the E routes that take from motorway to motorway without having to worry about which junction to take as you simply follow the E route that you want. Very easy relaxing journey if you would like more details on the route just ask, Ciao

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Thanks for all those route suggestions folks.  I'll be pouring over the European Atlases this week before finalising the route.  Your personal recommendations are a GREAT HELP./

I'd be grateful, however, for further advice.

As well as routes to Italy, still gratefully received, we'd be grateful for comment on driving/routes once we're ACTUALLY IN  Italy.

We value highly the advice we get on this website as it has proved so reliable in the past. Guidebooks, etc are useful but personal advice by those whoo have "gone before" is invaluable.

Thanks in anticipation

Tim

ONE LAST "BUMP"  to the top of the Board before I print off all these helpful suggestions and get down to working out the final route on the road map.

Thanks again for all the suggestions.

Further comments still welcome both on the relative merits/cost of the different routes to Italy and

ESPECIALLY

ROUTES IN ITALY TOO.

Hope everyone has a super summer

Best wishes

Tim

This really is the final "Bump" but I'd still be grateful for more info on towing IN ITALY - Now that I've had all this VERY HELPFUL advice on getting to Italy in the first place.

Thanks again to past and hopefully future posters

Have a super summer

Tim

Thanks for that Nero.  You've been very helpful.  I'll certainly take your phone number and other advice with me.  We're looking forward to visiting Italy for the first time.  We should arrive at La Riva by next Thursday.  What's the weather like at the moment.  It's unusually high ternperatures in the UK at present.

Thanks again.

Tim