Hi folks,
Just got back from two weeks in the zed with the wife. Apart from a vague idea of which areas we were going to visit we basically just packed the car up with some clothes and drove off. Route ended up roughly like this:
London -> Folkestone/Eurotunnel/Calais -> Luxembourg -> Zurich -> Alps (Grindelwald) -> Alps (Zermatt) -> Genoa/Portofino -> Monaco -> Nice -> Paris -> Calais/Eurotunnel/Folkestone -> London
All in all it came to around 2200 miles, which is by far the most driving I've done in this car in a 2 week period. Prior to this trip I had only put a total of 500 miles on the clock since purchase at the start of the year. What can I say? I loved it!
I would find it hard to find a reason to take any other car if I were to do the same trip again. A 3L 6 cylinder rag top has to be just about the perfect car to take on a road trip like this. We didn't get a drop of rain until (literally) the final few miles to Calais at the end, so roof down cruising was a daily enjoyment and the engine was singing. A major highlight was the driving in Switzlerland, the mountain passes are truly breathtaking and the quality of swiss roads is superb. That said, most of the driving on the continent was enjoyable. I think we sat in about 15 minutes of traffic in 2200 miles - and road quality outside of Italy was excellent.
A few snaps, all from Switzerland
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Thanks for looking!
Just got back from two weeks in the zed with the wife. Apart from a vague idea of which areas we were going to visit we basically just packed the car up with some clothes and drove off. Route ended up roughly like this:
London -> Folkestone/Eurotunnel/Calais -> Luxembourg -> Zurich -> Alps (Grindelwald) -> Alps (Zermatt) -> Genoa/Portofino -> Monaco -> Nice -> Paris -> Calais/Eurotunnel/Folkestone -> London
All in all it came to around 2200 miles, which is by far the most driving I've done in this car in a 2 week period. Prior to this trip I had only put a total of 500 miles on the clock since purchase at the start of the year. What can I say? I loved it!
I would find it hard to find a reason to take any other car if I were to do the same trip again. A 3L 6 cylinder rag top has to be just about the perfect car to take on a road trip like this. We didn't get a drop of rain until (literally) the final few miles to Calais at the end, so roof down cruising was a daily enjoyment and the engine was singing. A major highlight was the driving in Switzlerland, the mountain passes are truly breathtaking and the quality of swiss roads is superb. That said, most of the driving on the continent was enjoyable. I think we sat in about 15 minutes of traffic in 2200 miles - and road quality outside of Italy was excellent.
A few snaps, all from Switzerland
:Thanks for looking!
enjoyed the pics 
