I'm planning my route down for a months visit in July.
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I logged on this morning to my local webcam, to look at the snow on the ski slopes.
Thu, 01/05/2012 - 04:47
Loved the note about changing the locks!
Wed, 09/21/2011 - 09:20
Mon, 07/25/2011 - 05:21
For many years now I have used the likes of 'mappy', 'via michelin' etc for calculating different routes down to Italy - for us its a part of our holiday, so we don't always want to take the quickest/shortest route down. We prefer to vary the rou
Wed, 06/01/2011 - 09:25
Today I received an email from the Swiss Travel Centre. The relevant portion is;- "The GBP price for a Vignette will increase from 01 June 2011 and we wanted to give you the opportunity to purchase this years’ Vignette before the pric
Mon, 05/23/2011 - 09:45
I've just driven down and back for a [much too] short holiday, and feel that an update on how fuel prices look on the way down would be useful to fellow travellers The following is a good site for seeing what prices have been like Â
Mon, 04/04/2011 - 05:02
P&O have introduced a new ferry on the Dover - Calais route - its called the Spirit of Britain. They seem to have a special offer on at the moment [on this ship only] I've just booked a return crossing [car + 2] for £60 - significantly less th
Sat, 01/29/2011 - 06:08
Does Tomato soup exist in Italy? We were feeling a bit under the weather when we went out to Italy 2 weeks ago. As part of the R&R process, I fancied some soup, and looked around the supermarket. There were lots of different soups, but I rea
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 08:29
The route/timings for next years Giro d'Italia have been posted  My son rang me up to inform me that the route passes about 100m away from
Sat, 11/06/2010 - 07:04
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"suggestion to bypass Basel sounds like a great idea. We too have queued for hours to get into Switzerland. I know it sounds a silly question, but has anyone got the signs that we would need to follow to go the other way, i.e. out of Switzerland?"  Coming up from Lucerne on the motorway on the A2 - E35, a few miles before Basel,m  you reach a junction where you either go to left [A2] to Basel or right [A3 E60] to Zurich. Take the Zurich turn and stay in the inside lane for the turn to Germany [signed 'Rheinfelden'], and you are at the border. [I did it on Sunday - went through without stopping - quickest ever border crossing!]  This link should show the map - [I hope] [just reduce the magnification to get a decent view of the map]
deleted - failed to cut & past properly - oh well, off to italy tomorrow!
Don't know if this will help - but you can see real time traffic flows on this siteÂ
Try Googling  "lamezia B&B" - it throws up some cheap accommodation possibilities or if you like - there are some late night [slow] trains - but they involve longish station stops at the interchanges.After the 20.25 train, that arrives at BM at 22.09 [1 change] , there is the 00.22 that arrives at 05.50 [with a 3hr wait at Sapri] or the 01.17 train - that takes forever with 2 longish waits when changing trains [arrives about 08.22]
MBK - is it only down to 1 lane from Lille towards Dunkirk, or is it in both directions?
in my posting above i say that Castel Les Sorbieres is by the Moselle - its not, its beside the Meuse [don't seem to be able to edit anything other than the initial post in the thread]
Calais - then passing close to [on motorway] Dunkirk, Lille, Charleroi, Luxembourg, Metz, Nancy, Epinal - then over the Vosges [only bit of non-dual carriageway] to Mulhouse, then into Germany and avoid Basel by taking the last turning off the autobahn to Lorrach and into Switzerland. Then Lucerne and on to Gotthard Tunnel [take the St Gotthard Pass if you have an hour to spar, including stop for view] and on into Italy My stops are at Castel Les Sorbieres [chateau by the Moselle - a small detour in Belgium] and just outside Lucerne. Coming back we manage with one stop in the Novotel at Nancy Ouest [Laxou].    Castel Les Sorbires has the best food ever!  In a couple of weeks we are doing the Dover Dunkirk route for the fist time - my son has done it and says its great as there are no coach parties on the boat!
Our 'least favourite airline' appears [if 'googling' is to be believed] to have been checking hand luggage weights for some time [but not always]Â On a similar vein - Â could provide an answer
Does anyone know what [if any] train services are running in the surrounding area?  I assume that nothing is moving in the explosion area - but are there any services running in the general area?
- Unless we are to get umpteen different 'healthcare' groups - surely it is best to have a single Group that people can search through