car travel Salzburg to Reutte

Leslie: Thanks for the kind words! We like to think we do sassy attitude pretty well here--just shows a little but we try not to be obnoxious about it.:D

I can help you answer the first part of your question #1. The way any of us would answer is to go to either Viamichelin or GoogleMap and enter your route, and it's better for you (and us) if you do that part for yourself, you'll get a better answer for you.

Those two online driving trip planning tools can be reached if you go to my pseudo-stickie link which you will find here.

I've left the rest of question #1 for others to answer.

And remember that the driving times given on Google or Viamichelin do not include time for stops of any type. If it says 4 hours it's assuming you have pedal to the metal for 4 hrs without a pit stop--so you have to add for pit stops, stretch stops, etc.

Also, people here have consistently reported that their actual driving times took about 25% longer than the driving times given by Google or Viamichelin. And to clarify: this was 25% longer, in addition to time added to account for stops.

So you take the driving times and add for 2 things:

stops of any kind, including pit stops

many add about 25% for additional causes, such as traffic not being "normal", getting lost.

If you don't have a GPS and you're going to be doing some navigating off the auto-routes, that's a reason to add the 25% (especially in Italy or southern France).

thankyou Kent! boy- I don't know if all the "extra" driving time info is encouraging or discouraging! We best be ready for sponteneity and flexibility- as is certainly the joy of traveling!

-L