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Calais - Italy

:D Ciao, any particular reason you don't want Switzerland? If it's a question of tunnels I can understand, but if it's a question of cost then the only way is Russell's and Tikki's.
You could go down to Lausanne/Brig and the Simplon pass. This would still involve the Swiss vignette, but avoid long tunnels. Or from Basel go to Luzern/San Bernadino pass - just a short tunnel.
Unless you go your previous long/expensive route round the coast Nice/Ventimiglia, then at some point the Alps have to be crossed one way or another.
saluti,
eddied
 
Calais - Italy via Switzerland

:D Ciao tutti, this thread seems to be generating a bit of confusion about Switzerland.
The vignette is only applicable if you are going to be using the Swiss motorway network, and are entering Switzerland along one of said motorways.
It has been suggested that you can get across Switzerland without using motorways. Of course you can, as we did years ago. But, and a big BUT, how long is it going to take you? If you have oodles of time, fine. But you still have to cross the Alps somewhere. Before the days of Seelisberg and Gothard tunnel we used tp put our car on the train at Goschenen to Airolo, but it is still a tunnel. Otherwise between November and May, where would you cross without using a tunnel?? And how long do you allow from Basel to Chiasso/Como or Luino or anywhere into Italy?
I remember having to allow a full day for the job with a Ford Escort van, or Van Hool West Belgium Coach Company tour bus.
saluti,
eddied
 
Crossing Switzerland

:? Ciao Les, all that you say about non motorway in Switzerland is correct, including 'gewichte' toll. But I wish you would enlighten me as to how you manage to get across to Italy without facing an Alpine pass and/or a tunnel? Unless of course you go Vaduz/Feldkirch into the Austrian Vorarlberg. Even then you have to do the Brenner.
saluti,
eddied
 
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