Now then people. So next week, I'm travelling to Crete via sea and road. I'll be driving one of work's vans over there to deliver some furniture to my boss's place. My question is this; do any seasoned continental drivers have any handy hints and tips for this sort of excursion. Obviously the obvious is to drive on the RHS (lol) and I'm aware of the required items such as; warning triangle, hi-viz vest, insurance cover note, V5 log book, money for hopefully ellusive fines. The countries i'll be driving through are France, Switzerland, Italy and Greece. Many thanks in advance Oli
You'll need a motorway sticker for Switzerland which you'll pick up at the border after parting with CHF 45. But then you can use Swiss motorways for the rest of the year. Drink mad Italian coffee in service stations. Served in thimbles, emptied in a gulp, it's so good you'll order 3 and then wonder why you're buzzing.
Hahaha, that's useful on the Swiss motorway sticker. Cheers mate, yes I am looking forward to the Italian coffee
Another vote for Italian service station coffee, though I'm more of a cappuccino girl. Portion size stingy compared with coffee shops here but quality buonissimo. I swear it was the only thing that kept me going on the Monsteristi mad Milan trip a couple of years ago when I drove the boxy hire car from Milan to Bologna and back in the day to visit NCR and Ducati the day after doing the EICMA show. Make sure you've got more than one credit/debit card as some pay-at-the-pump service stations can be quite fussy about which cards they accept. I seem to remember problems both in France and at somewhere on the Swiss-Italian border near the Stelvio pass on a petrolhead car tour a few years ago.
Thanks for the fuel payment heads up but I shall be using the company fuel card and I have an atlas with all the staions that accept the card marked. So I'll plan my fuel stops to these and go in before I fill up to double check
