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I am considering ED and combining that with a vacation with my wife in mid October. (15 year anniversary, grandparents will have the kid, and my wife says don't be silly get the BMW not the Subaru...life is good  ) I am looking for suggested "Romantic best of europe" in 7-10 days. Easy to drive...good places to stay. I want do enjoy the car...but not be driving 10 hours a day....especially if I want to have future anniversaries.... also input into best bets to get back to Munich from drop off places....if it comes out point to point...not loop thanks in advance | | Reply » Best Europe Tour Suggestions |
Quote: I am considering ED and combining that with a vacation with my wife in mid October. (15 year anniversary, grandparents will have the kid, and my wife says don't be silly get the BMW not the Subaru...life is good )
I am looking for suggested "Romantic best of europe" in 7-10 days. Easy to drive...good places to stay. I want do enjoy the car...but not be driving 10 hours a day....especially if I want to have future anniversaries....
also input into best bets to get back to Munich from drop off places....if it comes out point to point...not loop
thanks in advance | Search is your friend. There is no one answer. Similar questions are asked over and over again on a weekly basis here. I would suggest reading the answers as well as travel logs of people who actually did ED.
There are different routes and different things appeal to different people - do the search and compose your own based on other people's experiences (assuming you know nothing about Europe.)
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Just did a similar trip. My wife and I celebrated 20yr anniversary  and did a ED on a new 545i in mid March. 3/21. She wanted to see Italy and France, and I wanted to see Germany. She won. Anyway, I found a great tour site that arranges driving tours based on your individual preferences. www.driveeurope.com. They were really helpful and planned everthing for us. Gave us a very comprehensive itinerary with map routes, places to see and things to do. The route included short intervals between destinations so the entire vacation isn't spent driving. (Good and Bad depending on your love affair with the BMW). We started in Munich drove to Venice then on to Assisi. From there to Rome. From Rome to Vicchio (Florence area), then on to Pisa. We then drove into France to Nice, then from Nice to Paris with drop off date of 4/1 at CDG. It was everything we expected and more! We needed to change our itinerary in the middle of the trip and Rupert with Driveeurope was very helpful. All Hotel bookings, etc. are handled by them. I would highly recommend their service.
Enjoy and have fun! I'm still waiting for redelivery... That is the hard part! 
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Pick up the various books by Rick Steves and catch his show on the Travel Channel.
Going in October (off-season but October-fest!), you *shouldn't* have any trouble winging the whole trip and just finding hotels when you are ready for one. My wife and I usually like to plan the first 2-3 days of a trip and the last 1-2 days. Everything in between is whatever we feel like doing and wherever we feel like going. You can't lose in Europe...everywhere you go there is mounds and mounds of history...a real treat for Americans whose history is so short....
My brain exploded when we visited Greece, Athens, Mykonos...so much to see you just can't handle it!
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With 7-10 days, I'd keep the driving down. In Germany, you could visit Rothenburg (14th Cent.) and other towns on the "romantic road", the Black Forest, castles, etc. None of these is more than a same-day drive from Munich or you can tie them together. Salzburg & Vienna are nice in Austria. Prague is very interesting and relatively affordable as the Czech Rep. is not on the Euro.
Or you could expand to the rest of Germany, or Northern Italy (esp. Venice, Milan, and Turin--which is under-appreciated), or France, or Switzerland. But I would resist trying to cover too much territory.
Two other useful sources: some AAA office have a "Europe Planning Map" that has an overview of Western Europe with all the major highways. It gives a very different perspective than what you get from individual country maps. Also, although the Michelin Green Guide for Germany is out-of-date (prices are in DM, not Euros), it has four "touring programs", one of which is centered on Munich.
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Quote: I am considering ED and combining that with a vacation with my wife in mid October. (15 year anniversary, grandparents will have the kid, and my wife says don't be silly get the BMW not the Subaru...life is good )
I am looking for suggested "Romantic best of europe" in 7-10 days. Easy to drive...good places to stay. I want do enjoy the car...but not be driving 10 hours a day....especially if I want to have future anniversaries....
also input into best bets to get back to Munich from drop off places....if it comes out point to point...not loop
thanks in advance | What do you think you want to see? What would you like your pace to be? How many miles would you like to drive your new bimmer in Europe? (Gas and highway tolls are much higher than in USA)
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