Arlon to Garda (Day 3 - 30th March 2012)

Early start today, getting ready for a long drive. Left Arlon about 9am, our first stop was to fill up with diesel in Luxembourgh. Diesel topped up to the brim, 200 Benson & Hedges and I'm ready for the road ahead. Following the same route as last year (toll free thanks to Russell's route from motorhomefacts) passing by Nancy, Metz, heading for Mullhouse where the route takes you through some great scenery.

My Little Baby

Sally & Rees Taking A Few Pics

 Once past Mullhouse back onto the motorway and heading for the Swiss border at Basel. This is where you buy your vignette for about 35Euro's, giving you use of the motorway system. Love driving through Switzerland,some great scenery lots of tunnels and fairly quiet on the roads.

Great Views

 Our plan was to park up for a few hours, have a sleep and then drive through the night to Garda. The plan changed, drove past Lake Lucerne and stopped for about an hour at some services 20 mins before the Gottard Tunnel. The time was now about 7.30pm and I decided to continue our drive and reach our destination of Lake Garda as Early as possible so we could park up and have a proper kip so we would be fresh for the following day. Ok so we set off from services and a couple of miles from the Gottard tunnel we hit traffic :( stood still for ages, must be an accident we thought, now we were wishing we had stopped at services but too late for that. Slowly we start to move, then stop, then move. Finally after about an hour we see in the distance that traffic lights were in use, letting through just a small amount of vehicles at once. Once we had cleared this the tunnel entrance beckoned, nearly 17km in length. No idea why they use the traffic light system but there must be a valid reason. Out of the tunnel and our final leg in Switzerland towards the Italian border. Once in Italy we needed diesel, OMG the prices have shot up and are on a par with the UK, wasn't expecting that. Never mind we carried on for our final destination of the day and arrived just after Midnight. Found a nice little car park about a mile from our campsite and got our heads down for the night. A long day driving but well worth it with the progress we made, Let's just say I can't remember my head hitting the pillow.