Total cost of trip per person: £450
This is considering we split the fuel of all the vehicles evenly between 5 people - 1 x stage 1.5 HDi, 1 x GTi6, 1 x 2.8l Z3.
That includes fuel, insurance, camping, food, beer, meals out, ferry tickets, EU mandatory stuff like breathalysers and gb stickers, the lot. If i'd just paid for my own fuel the cost was about £200 in the HDi for 2200 miles, including fuel for laps, works out at around 53mpg as diesel is ~£1.05/l on the continent.
Route someone else will have to contribute, once Hugo started navigating i lost track. Approximate itinerary was Calais > Troyes > Chamonix > Bellinzona > Ulm > Koblenz (2 nights) > Calais. Open to correction on all counts, was a bit of a blur lol. It took in as much scenery as possible, we made a trip down/up/along almost every long wiggly line that was close to our outlined route on the map. Campsites we usually phoned ahead to confirm there'd be someone around when we arrived, being off-season a lot of places weren't open, especially when we were rocking up well into the evening most days.
If i was going to do it again i'd do one or the other, trying to fit a nurburgring visit and a grand tour into a week was pretty hard work and it would have been more enjoyable if we weren't constantly pushing for time. That or do 10-14 days rather than 8 long ones lol.
This is considering we split the fuel of all the vehicles evenly between 5 people - 1 x stage 1.5 HDi, 1 x GTi6, 1 x 2.8l Z3.
That includes fuel, insurance, camping, food, beer, meals out, ferry tickets, EU mandatory stuff like breathalysers and gb stickers, the lot. If i'd just paid for my own fuel the cost was about £200 in the HDi for 2200 miles, including fuel for laps, works out at around 53mpg as diesel is ~£1.05/l on the continent.Route someone else will have to contribute, once Hugo started navigating i lost track. Approximate itinerary was Calais > Troyes > Chamonix > Bellinzona > Ulm > Koblenz (2 nights) > Calais. Open to correction on all counts, was a bit of a blur lol. It took in as much scenery as possible, we made a trip down/up/along almost every long wiggly line that was close to our outlined route on the map. Campsites we usually phoned ahead to confirm there'd be someone around when we arrived, being off-season a lot of places weren't open, especially when we were rocking up well into the evening most days.
If i was going to do it again i'd do one or the other, trying to fit a nurburgring visit and a grand tour into a week was pretty hard work and it would have been more enjoyable if we weren't constantly pushing for time. That or do 10-14 days rather than 8 long ones lol.