TheBear:
Well, I said at the end of my ‘diary’ about our trip to Italy I wouldn’t do it again. Guess what■■? I lied!!! About a week after our return, we were sat somewhere having lunch and both moaning about the cold. I suddenly declared ‘That’s it!! I’ve had enough’. We found out when we were down there the tempature is around 15-18 in December.
So Monday morning we are heading for Dover where we will stay overnight before catching a ferry early Tuesday morning. The Beast is ready, snowchains in the boot and Xmas and possibly New Year is booked in Sicily. We’re not hanging about this time and will use the motorways down and through the Mont Blanc tunnel (where the other night, it was -12 and snowing). We’ll be in Sicily by Friday.
I hope you have a good trip and a great Christmas n New Year.
It will take you 2 long days to get there. Im retired now and am always over the pond in our campervan. First of you will need a toll sticker for Swiss its about £38 it last a year. You can get them on line from a German Company “TOLL TICKETS” you have to stick it in the top middle of the windscreen so the cameras pick it up you can only stick these on once so get it right first time. The Austrian toll sticker you can get for a few days and its a lot cheaper. If you go the route we took down that way a couplke of years ago We left Calais doubled back up to Belgium - Luxembourg - France overnight at an Aire in Charmes 8 euros with EHU don’t forget your polarity change electric lead and the euro plug lead for Swiss. Then down to Basle haed for Como- Milan - Lake Guarda.
If you want anymore info PM me. the Swiss toll sticker is that price for up to 3.5 tons if you are opver that silly money, and if you pay at the border you will; be paying more than TOLL TICKETS.
Regards Ben
Hi Ben.
We have not gotten round to planning the route yet.
I’m going to sit my better half down one day soon a suggest she reads the many contributions people have been kind enough to post.
I suppose our van will cost I bit more due to the gvw being over 3.5 t.
We do get away with it on French motorways though.
I want it to be an adventure, well,so far every trip over the water is to some degree.
As long as we don’t end up recreating the coach scene in the Italian job.
Having watched the news the last two days, it looks like we got out just in time. We got home last weekend and came home via the Brenner … just where all the snow is falling atm. It was heavy when we moved out of the Tyrol.
