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Here is the fuel record for the trip. I can be a bit OCD with my record keeping. Interesting that the price of Diesel is cheaper than Petrol right throughout Europe, in Britain, the taxes have skewed this the other way and Petrol is cheaper.

The summary bit 10 weeks on the road [July to September 2011] The route as recorded by out Garmin satnav (you can fill in the blanks with some of the ferrys) We covered 5,500 miles. Drove through ten countries (visited 11); The Netherlands Germany Czech Republic Austria Liechtenstein...

Britain We eventually get out wheels back on British roads about 5pm. Back in Blighty Oh yea, need to remember that The going out of Plymouth is slow, but once out the town the roads start to open up. We drive till 8 and get a services dinner, then back on the road and continue past...

Spain Our drive through Spain is pretty straight forward, we stick to the toll roads and the locals stick to the free roads which means the toll roads are largely empty. What we do notice is allot of police cars at the side of the road pulling in cars for inspection. I don't know what they...

Andorra The route into Andorra from France is lovely, the roads are good quality and the climbs start of easy at first and we can progress in third gear, then further up and we're back to second for the remainder. At 2000m ASL there is an option to continue climbing over the mountain or take a...

France part three Millau Its time to leave Cannes and head inland to Millau. There is only one reason that we wanted to go to Millau and that the viaduct, in fact its one of the factors which pushed us to undertake this trip. I’m a bridge engineer by profession and seeing the viaduct has been...

France Part One Nice The crossing takes a few hours and is very smooth with little in the way of waves, the ship also has a soft play area so that helps keep Abby occupied. We get off the ferry at 3.30pm and descend into the chaos of Nice traffic. This is a shocking experience having come from...

France Part One Corsica The journey from Sardinia to Corsica is only an hour which we are grateful of as it's a little choppy. The final passage into Bonifacio harbour is beautiful. The harbour is a few hundred metres up a passage way through the yellow rock, towering on the cliffs are old...

Italy Part Four Sardinia First view of Sardinia The next morning, we arrive at the Cagliari port, Sardinia, and make our way to the Bronze Age site at Barlumnin – “Su Nuraxi”, which is basically a 1500BC settlement built of large basalt boulders. On the way to the site, we...

A bit of delay but I've got the remaining sections ready to go. :wings:

Italy Part Three Sicily Now for the first time on the trip, we have left mainland Europe and we’re back on an island. Sicily is very similar to Italy in that’s its dry, hot and the visibility is poor (perhaps because of all the forest fires). The only discernable difference is that at one...

Italy Part Two Naples From Rome, we continued south to Naples and the Sparticus campsite which is immediately adjacent to the Pompeii site. Random architecture The four hour journey to Naples is fairly uneventful, the usual mix of pristine toll roads and service stops. On the approach to...

Italy Part One We leave Chamonix, France behind and start the march south through Italy. Exiting France via the Mont Blanc tunnel we can’t help notice the memorials to those who have lost their lives in the tunnel. The tunnel its self is not as impressive as we had expected, we are charged 42E60...

No not really, its a great wee (thats scottish for small) size, it doenst stick out the side (its not wider than the van) and doesnt cut in on normal turns. We had to reverse out of a few situation, where for one reason or another, we couldnt go any further, so you have to be totally...

Switzerland Part Two We very much enjoyed our relaxed stay in Lucerne, but alas it's time to move on, so off we go towards Interlaken, but first a stop at Ballenberg. Ballenberg is an open air Swiss rural museum. It contains many buildings spread over a large part of the hill side from...

Switzerland We leave our Swiss border campsite and start heading south towards our first proper stop off at Lucerne, unsure of whether we are driving in Liestenstien or Switzerland for the first wee while. The drive to Lucerne is an easy motorway jaunt, we pass through a number of tunnels but...

Liechtenstein and Switzerland part One With a flexible timetable, we had planned to take advantage of the facilities and play area at Walchs campsite and have an ‘off’ day to stay put and Abby could play. Instead, it had rained over night and the ground was now saturated, so we took the hint...

A vignette is similar to the UK tax disc. It's a payment to the government to use the road network, they seem to be used in countries which don't have toll roads. Austria and the Czech republic are good because you can buy them for short duations, like a week, Switzerland on the other half...

Austria – Part Three Moving on from Bruck to Innsbruck area. Before Leaving the Bruck, we head to the Maximart supermarket which we cycled past to go swimming the other day. Boy is it massive, its got everything from groceries, sport stuff, luggage, café, bakers and a hair dressers. While that...

Yup will do.