Montenegro Road Trip

Paul Hawkins
Paul Hawkins Forum Participant Posts: 1
edited May 2022 in Your stories #1

A couple of shots from our 42 day road trip to Montenegro

We covered 3899 miles or 6274 kilometres, have visited and stayed in 12 countries, crossed lots of international borders some of which we didn’t even know that we had actually crossed them. 

We travelled on toll roads and also used the Vignette system in three different countries and I still have the 2 Swiss Franc change from the Swiss vignette purchase, a lot of use that is, unless you are in Switzerland. The cheapest route through to Croatia is through Belgium, Germany and beyond as the French tolls are expensive however the roads are better and much quicker but you do miss out on views and interesting places to visit, you can also benefit from popping into Luxembourg and getting a tank full of cheap full. We also learnt that if you had a traffic cone business, in Central and Southern Europe is not the place to expect to make any money, as they just don’t use them. In fact they use very little in the way of defining road works, they just dig up the road and then let you drive over the rubble they have left behind, before they eventually return to resurface it, actually one thing they do have is a mechanical dummy dressed in Hi Vis Jacket waving a flag, which is pretty funny if nothing else.

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  • DavidKlyne
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    edited May 2022 #2

    Hi Paul

    That is some trip in a relatively short space of time. We have been as far as Venice, via Germany and Austria and usually taken twice as long! Thanks for sharing.

    David

  • brue
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    edited May 2022 #3

    Quite a trip, nice to hear some thoughts about "how to do it" thanks for the details. smile

  • Finnberrys
    Finnberrys Forum Participant Posts: 42
    edited June 2022 #4

    One day, we hope to do long road trips like yours. It looks amazing! Just out of interest, did you take the same route back?

  • JimE
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    edited July 2022 #5

    Hi Paul

    Quite an epic journey by the sounds of it.  We've just returned from a 52 day trip to Sicily covering just over 4,000 miles, travelling via Burgundy, Alsace, Switzerland, the Adriatic coast of Italy, the Med coast of Italy, then through the Mont Blanc tunnel onward to the tunnel at Calais.

    If you plan to go through Switzerland again, try paying for the vignette on-line using the Via App.  You can use it for MHs under and over 3.5T.  Saves having to use local currency.

    Happy travels.

    Jim

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