20 famous European road trips, each coloured by whether a car towing a caravan may drive it: 10 the whole road, 7 with a bypass, 3 not at all (Stelvio, the Amalfi coast road, the Lake District’s Hardknott/Wrynose loop).

A few things that surprised me while reading the rules:

  • Amalfi coast road (SS163): campers and caravans are banned 06:30–24:00, while motorbikes are exempt from the odd/even number-plate days cars get in summer.
  • Grossglockner: a motorcycle’s day ticket is €36.50 against €46.50 for a car — and a car with a caravan pays the car rate.
  • Geiranger–Hellesylt ferry: about €76 for a car with its driver, €187 for a car + caravan (10–14 m), €61 for a motorbike.

Rules read on 5 Nov from the road authorities and operators (where only a secondary source says it, the page says so). Each road is priced for car, car + caravan, motorhome and motorcycle: https://copilot.travel/maps/famous-road-trips Corrections welcome.

  • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
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    6 days ago

    There’s no road user more entitled than a British driver of a Land Rover Discovery towing a caravan. I live very close to one of these routes and they are a fucking nightmare.

    Usually running on slick summer tyres and with no clue how to approach turns or inclines (but it’s okay! - the engine is powerful enough for them not to care and they pressed the little “inclines” button which magically fixes everything), they’re convinced they’re invincible, absolutely will not wait their turn or give way, will insist they everyone else get off their road, all the time outraged that we’d dare to exist in their presence. That five hundred year old wall they just knocked over? It came out of nowhere! And, besides it shouldn’t have been there anyway - the countryside should have taken them into account.