As both myself and Lady Munch have birthdays in May we got to discussing holidays and where we would like to be for our respective birth dates. She has always wanted to see Venice and I just adore Croatia and just so happen to have a friend who is the head of tourism is Split. Mrs has never been to Croatia so we started looking at how we could cover both dates, 3rd and 19th in two different countries. Sure we could fly in to either but that left 16 days between dates... What to do within those dates? Sittin on a beach is just purgatory for both of us.. Rather be out exploring the locality.

Pompeii? yeah... ! Florence...? Yeah! Venice... Fk Yeah! Then she quipped that she has always wanted to see Lake Bled. 

I was quite happy with Split, Plitvice lakes, and yes, Slovenia. I must add at this point I have done all the aforementioned but this was some 30 years ago on a 3 month tour of Europe on 2 wheels!

Looking at car hire costs it quickly became obvious that it was not going to be cheap to cover the destinations we listed with flights, hotels and car hire so I said... Beggar that (something like that) I'll drive it!

One last tour whilst I still can and we take a month out of life and go see... What can go wrong???

Here we are, all planned and we simply cannot wait for the 27th April to begin our tour.

Leeds-Hull

Hull-Rotterdam

Rotterdam-Luxembourg- overnight

Luxembourg-Nuremburg (Joe Bonamassa Concert) - overnight

Nuremburg-Liechtenstein- overnight

Liechtenstein- Venice via the San Bernardino Pass  Venice 3 nights

Venice-Florence 2 nights

Florence- outside Naples in the mountains 3 nights

Naples-Tavullia (VR46) overnight

Tavullia-Ancona for the night sail to Split.

Split... 8 days of beer, sunshine and zero driving! Trips to Hvar, Brak, some deep sea fishing etc and my BD.

Split-Plitvice lakes-overnight.

Plitvice-Lake bled-2 nights

Lake Bled- Vienna-overnight

Vienna-Prague-overnight

Prague-Dresden-2 nights

Dresden-Hannover-overnight

Hannover-Amsterdam-overnight

Amsterdam-Rotterdam

Home.

Overnights include getting there in plenty of time to sightsee and plenty of time for a civilised departure to the next destination.

If we have  hiccup, so what. We sleep in the car lol

We will be uploading pics and videos of our adventure so stay tuned.

 

On 05/02/2023 at 20:36, MunchMyStump said:

As both myself and Lady Munch have birthdays in May we got to discussing holidays and where we would like to be for our respective birth dates. She has always wanted to see Venice and I just adore Croatia and just so happen to have a friend who is the head of tourism is Split. Mrs has never been to Croatia so we started looking at how we could cover both dates, 3rd and 19th in two different countries. Sure we could fly in to either but that left 16 days between dates... What to do within those dates? Sittin on a beach is just purgatory for both of us.. Rather be out exploring the locality.

Pompeii? yeah... ! Florence...? Yeah! Venice... Fk Yeah! Then she quipped that she has always wanted to see Lake Bled. 

I was quite happy with Split, Plitvice lakes, and yes, Slovenia. I must add at this point I have done all the aforementioned but this was some 30 years ago on a 3 month tour of Europe on 2 wheels!

Looking at car hire costs it quickly became obvious that it was not going to be cheap to cover the destinations we listed with flights, hotels and car hire so I said... Beggar that (something like that) I'll drive it!

One last tour whilst I still can and we take a month out of life and go see... What can go wrong???

Here we are, all planned and we simply cannot wait for the 27th April to begin our tour.

Leeds-Hull

Hull-Rotterdam

Rotterdam-Luxembourg- overnight

Luxembourg-Nuremburg (Joe Bonamassa Concert) - overnight

Nuremburg-Liechtenstein- overnight

Liechtenstein- Venice via the San Bernardino Pass  Venice 3 nights

Venice-Florence 2 nights

Florence- outside Naples in the mountains 3 nights

Naples-Tavullia (VR46) overnight

Tavullia-Ancona for the night sail to Split.

Split... 8 days of beer, sunshine and zero driving! Trips to Hvar, Brak, some deep sea fishing etc and my BD.

Split-Plitvice lakes-overnight.

Plitvice-Lake bled-2 nights

Lake Bled- Vienna-overnight

Vienna-Prague-overnight

Prague-Dresden-2 nights

Dresden-Hannover-overnight

Hannover-Amsterdam-overnight

Amsterdam-Rotterdam

Home.

Overnights include getting there in plenty of time to sightsee and plenty of time for a civilised departure to the next destination.

If we have  hiccup, so what. We sleep in the car lol

We will be uploading pics and videos of our adventure so stay tuned.

 

Sounds awesome! Hope all goes well and would love to hear how it goes.

 

We’re contemplating something similar for next year - 40th wedding anniversary 😊

Might include Paris (Olympics) and Verona (opera) as well as lake bled, Split, Florence, and … (still working on it)

Have you seen the price of the Olympic tickets 😱

1 hour ago, BTandSid said:

Have you seen the price of the Olympic tickets 😱

Yes, rather too many £££ for my liking but we’re making it a bit of a celebration…