Neil,

Do we now have a route fixed?

Once we have the route fixed with waypoints and dates added we could then fill in some Hotels. I am sure there will be a few French, German, Italian and Austrian fellows who would be able to help us too

No... I was all happy with the first route but the need for the weekend in Torino effectively forces the thing to be a fortnight's trip; it's a devil to get back to work on Monday if you're in Torino on Sunday.

I was pottering with the idea of heading south a bit and coming up to Torino; perhaps down to Nice or Marseilles and along the coast.

@ barnacle: why don't take the Monday off from work as well?
Annecy -> Turin = 300km 6 hrs.
[Annecy - La Clusaz - Bourg st. Maurice - Col de l'Iseran - Col du Mt. Cenis - Susa - Turin]

Another suggestion is to drive on friday from Calais to Turin on motorway only (660 miles/09.43 hrs) as the first stage of your Euro Tour.

Col du Mont Cenis was quite something when I went over it in the 70s.

i thought this was going to be a slow tour???

That's the idea...

3 pages in and I've only just read this!

Is there room for two more?

Hubby and I would be very interested in coming along too.

Julia

Definitely - the more the merrier.

Any thoughts about the route yet folks.I was reading baby cash posts on spaitalia.I would like to do both and sort out some camping at spa as his hotel prices are a bit steep for me as i want to stay at spa at least 2 nights.
For the euro tour i want to try and mix camping and hotels if possible.I am flexible though about that.
Also if you want any help with bookings etc here in france i am happy to help out. Cheers Joe
I have sent baby cash a pm about camping at spa.His mate is looking into it,and will contact me later.

Camping and some hotels for me,as i will have been on tour maybe longer than most due to where i live.When i know what route we are takeing i can check out the camping at whatever places we plan to stop at.It may be that as we will be ending up in Spa on the second weekend,i may want to RV with you all part way down to Italy,ie Germany.The sooner the route is fixed the better the prices will be for hotels.

To be confirmed when I get back from this flying trip... we're now looking at a basic slow drive through France (anything to avoid the tolls!) starting Monday, arriving Chamonix or somewhere similar with mountain passes (oh, and paragliding? What a surprise, dear. How fortunate I packed my wing!) on the Thursday night. Friday and Saturday night 5/6 June at Turin, probably at the (expensive!) hotel under the Fiat rooftop test track. After that, unclear; I'm considering doing the Mille Miglia route but we may get Stelvio and or Grossglockner passes in.

I'm *not* planning on doing Spa so things may split at this point.

I am going to have to pull out of this trip

Neil you have PM.

Bob

Bob - received and I'll talk to you later.

Folks, I fear I have to cancel this. There are several reasons:

- the massively increased costs due to the Euro rate has pushed the price up ridiculously
- the major attraction appears to be Spa and not Italy
- I think many of us have some concerns about our job stability and existing debts

I would hope that over the course of the next year, we might move the exchange rate back to a sane level, and some more stability might be found at work as the economic climate improves. In the light of this, I think we might be able to consider it again next year - the fifteenth year of the availability of the Coupe in the UK - and see what happens then.

Until then, ciao. And my apologies.

Thanks, all.

Neil