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Europe trip help

Posted by (Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia) on

My husband and I are planning a trip to europe next year - there are only 3 major requests that my husband has so those are the ones I have to plan around!!!
A motogp to be held in Assen on 26th June
Goodwood festival of speed in Chichester England 2/4th July
A visit to Ferrari museum - Maranello Italy - now you understand my husband!!

First Leg 10 days
fly from London to Dubrovnik 2nd June - Fly back to London from Split 10th June - we have a wedding to go to on 12th so this is the max time we can spend in Croatia - thinking 2 days Dubrovnik - hiring car for 1 week to travel to Split

Next leg - 14 days

Flying out of London to Prague 14th June - arriving in the evening - spending 2 days Prague then onto Vienna by train for 3 days then on to Budapest for 2 days

Flying from Budapest to Geneva 21st June - arriving midday -
Flying from Geneva to Amsterdam on 23rd (late afternoon) Amsterdam to Assen 24th ready for Moto Gp practice sessions 25th and race 26th - back to Amsterdam 28th - Fly back to London 30th

Leg 3 - 7 days Flying out of London to Athens 12th July - what to do before flying

Athens to Rome 19th - 34 days then to travel - Italy France and Spain

Have done Rome before so not bothered about spending too long there - hire car/train to travel within Italy? for 12 days
wanting to visit Tuscany, cinque terre, venice and of course
Maranello - (2 hours by car from Florence) suggestions please -

Then to french riviera into Spain by train/hire car? Barcelona is a must - ending up in Bilbao to fly back to London 21st August

We prefer to spend our time in the 'real' country rather than tourist centres although obviously there are some must do city sites - suggestions please again
Look forward to your suggestions
Vickie

Posted by
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Thanks for advice on Croatia
Only really using Geneva as a way to get to Amsterdam from Budapest quickly!!!

Posted by
9371 posts

Your post is a little hard to read. Could you possibly punctuate it a bit more so that it's easier to tell what you want to do? To add a space between lines you need to hit enter twice instead of once.

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sorry about that - will attempt to fix it up!!

Posted by
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I don't know if its the way you wrote it,, or if there are just too many things going on in your post,.. or perhaps I am dense.. LOL, but I too am having difficulty understanding your post.

I have reread it serveral times,, and so far I still don't know what a motogp is,, or how long it takes, ( is it a trade show?,, and what is Split Next Leg?

You are leaving on August 21st,, so seems you have a fairly long visit,, but , it still seems to have too many two days here and two days there type of stops.

Posted by
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As another poster stated you don't need a week for Split. We were on the Dalmation Coast in the summer of 2005 flying into Dubrovnik. We spent 4 nights here of a 3 week trip. From Dubrovnik took the bus to Split and spent 2 nights here and picked up our rental car when we were ready to leave. Then on to Plitvice Park which is stunning and then into Slovenia to Ljubliana and Lake Bled before ending in Venice. Take a look at Rick's Eastern Europe/Croatia book--You could also do daytrips to Montenegro and Mostar from Dubrovnik but you won't want to spend a week in Split.

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