Drive to Athens

[buchanan]

Any one driven from the UK to Athens, i intend to end up in Crete but any advise for the first leg would be great.

[Southern Star]

I've done it in a truck a long time ago, the Ancona-Patras ferry used to be the way to go although overland is possibly easier now more of the transit countries are in the eu.

[trikey]

I have been contemplating a drive to Corfu in the 75 as I fancy a warm holiday with the dog without subjecting her to flights.

[Southern Star]

It would be interesting to know the furthest-flung place any forumite has ever driven to in their Rover 75/ MG ZT. I've done some pretty epic road trips in an articulated lorry but 175 miles is the furthest I've ever done in the Rover.

[trikey]

Maxi_Crawf did a fairly epic European trip in his 190 a few years ago.

[maxi_crawf]

I did a European tour with my two lads in the 190 in 2018,
Harwich to the Hook of Holland then Holland, Belgium, France (overnight in Lyon) then down to Cannes (stayed overnight) then Monte Carlo, took the coast road through France and Italy we drove through Genoa 2 weeks after the bridge collapsed there, down to Pisa (stayed overnight) then north to Milan (overnight stop) then Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany (stayed overnight in Munich) then Dusseldorf (stayed overnight) then back to the Hook of Holland to Harwich.

2,848 miles in a week, used no water or oil but about £70 a day in petrol, so we got as far south as Pisa and east as Munich.

I have a three year rolling plan,

Year 1, Norway north of the arctic circle.
2, Iceland via the faroe islands.
3, The edge of the Sahara desert through Morocco.

I say do it.

[roverbarmy]

Originally Posted by trikey

I have been contemplating a drive to Corfu in the 75 as I fancy a warm holiday with the dog without subjecting her to flights.

here you go!
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Becc...1!2d39.6249838

I'm too old to be a co-driver! (Wish that I wasn't!)

Highlights include the San Gotthard pass, Lac Lucerne, Altdorf (home of William Tell), Andermatt, Italian Lakes at Lugano and Como, Milan (try it at rush hour!), Parma (ham for the dog), San Marino (just over from Rimini on the coast), followed by hundreds of miles of the Italian East coast road before the ferry at Bari to Corfu. If you need more of the coast road, you can continue to Brindisi for a shorter ferry ride.

[trikey]

Originally Posted by roverbarmy

here you go!
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Becc...1!2d39.6249838

I'm too old to be a co-driver! (Wish that I wasn't!)

Highlights include the San Gotthard pass, Lac Lucerne, Altdorf (home of William Tell), Andermatt, Italian Lakes at Lugano and Como, Milan (try it at rush hour!), Parma (ham for the dog), San Marino (just over from Rimini on the coast), followed by hundreds of miles of the Italian East coast road before the ferry at Bari to Corfu. If you need more of the coast road, you can continue to Brindisi for a shorter ferry ride.

Thats the route I was looking at, thankfully I have driven Milan at rush hour (And Rome) A few times, and once I put my 'Italian driving head' on, all was fine, no indicators, just horn and right foot planted.

[Gate Keeper]

Originally Posted by trikey

I have been contemplating a drive to Corfu in the 75 as I fancy a warm holiday with the dog without subjecting her to flights.

Morning Andy ……It’s certainly worth doing and if you can, share the drive with a mate even if it’s for their company. Yes, take the dog, that’s all part of the fun and do it before you get too old.

In 1999, I met up with a mate in Huston, at the time he was down on his luck, but that’s another story. We crossed the border at El Paso and I spent a month driving through and exploring Mexico finishing up in Mexico City. We had many adventures along the way and none of them were bad. The trip saved my mate.

[trikey]

Originally Posted by Gate Keeper

Morning Andy ……It’s certainly worth doing and if you can, share the drive with a mate even if it’s for their company. Yes, take the dog, that’s all part of the fun and do it before you get too old.

In 1999, I met up with a mate in Huston, at the time he was down on his luck, but that’s another story. We crossed the border at El Paso and I spent a month driving through and exploring Mexico finishing up in Mexico City. We had many adventures along the way and none of them were bad. The trip saved my mate.

Sounds like a proper adventure Phil, I shall do it when funds allow, and I get a Rover prepared enough to tackle 3000+ miles.