Too many Choices, week road trip.

Cologne seems like an easy stop. I haven't been there but the cathedral is supposed to be amazing. Then you could drive down through Luxembourg, hit Lorraine and Alsace (be sure to stop in Strasbourg!!), maybe Colmar than head east to the Black Forest (Freiberg and surrounding area), hit up some of the sites in Switzerland (haven't been yet, but my parents loved Lurcerne) then on down to Italy. It's a rough outline of a trip but it sounds like you'd be hitting a lot of the coolest sites in Europe in a relatively leisurely fashion. Other sites/detours to consider: Heidelberg, Rhine castles in Germany,Trier, the Manganot Line. RS doesn't recommend Heidelberg but if you don't do any other castles and you're not visiting any other old University towns I think it's worthwhile. Hope that gives you some ideas!

Manganot Line? Maginot line?

Elton, I don't know the dates in which you are going to travel. If you are going between late May and late October, you should absolutely consider some high-mountain driving in the Alps. Roads can take you to some rather remote spots (from where you can take day hikes in high altitude that don't amount to climbing or else). You could spend good 3 days venturing in the back Alpine roads of central Switzerland (far from the crowds of Junfgraujoch), and especially those of Norheast Italy (Dolomiti range, Passo Stelvio, Timmseljoch etc.)

Yup, I'm a terrible speller.

Having driven many of these roads, I believe your road trip leaves very little time for sight seeing along the way. You very well may experience 6 lane highways which come to a complete stop during rush hours. You are not in the wide open spaces of the out back. You need to seriously re-examine your sight seeing priorities. When are you traveling? We spent an extra 3 hours just driving through Belgium on May 1st, not realizing it was a major European vacation weekend. If you have a non-Apple computer available I would suggest you get a copy of Microsoft AutoRoute and do some time and distance planning with it. I believe you can download a free 30 day trial from Microsoft's web site. It is excellent for doing "What if" trips in Europe. My wife and I use it all the time, and if you buy a USB GPS sensor to set on the dash of the car you have an excellent European SatNav device. The down side of that is that you need a navigator to hold the laptop. Unfortunately it only runs on a P.C. based machine, not Apples.

Thanks for the advice, I was going to add that we will be travelling from Venice back to Paris 2 weeks later so hopefully on the cross over see some more, it gives us around 2 weeks of travelling which will go some way to see a part of Euroep, if I can win Lotto I will stay longer. We will be travelling in April if this helps.

Have you checked the routing feature on www.viamichelin.com? It gives you a number of options (shortest, fastest, sightseeing, etc) with detailed driving directions, times and distances as well as what you can expect for tolls and fuel.

Hi Jeff, The Michelin maps was where I started and worked out i needed a month to see all the great things I pass on the way, just want to shorten the wish list.