The most scenic route you've ever taken

We did it the other way round!  We were lucky enough to spend nearly 8 years in 2 bites in Oman starting in 1997.  Did about 40K kms off road in the first 3 years - so many scenic routes and lots of al fresco camping. However, the route through the Atlas mountains from Fez via Midelt to Todras Gorge in Morocco, which we did in 2018, takes a lot of beating - breathtaking scenery which my photos don't do justice to.

Do tunnels count as scenic routes  I always find the Tyne and Mersey tunnels can up the excitement levels? 😀 ps the Beaminster tunnel is quite short but you need to give way to tractors...🚜

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If tunnels float your boat, I can recommend the SS45 alongside the west bank of Lake Garda but not for large motorhomes or the faint hearted. It is very scenic though in good weather!

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As my OH has done the driving over all these years he complains that he rarely sees the views but tunnels and other driving challenges are quite memorable. 

There is a way round that Brue, look at the dash cam footage if you think you have missed something. Even now, when I look at old video I have saved, I notice stuff I missed or it horrifies me.

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Brings back happy memories!

I would like to throw my parents most recent road trip into this discussion.

Presently they live in Germany and in March of this year, undertook a trip dad has been planning for over a year. A 3 week trip to North Cape (Norwegian: Nordkapp) and back – the furthest north you can travel in Europe.

I would guess quite a few others reading this would love to travel this amazing road trip, but ask ‘where do you start??’ something I've often head when they show their happy snappies.

The only element dad hadn’t really planned for was just how much gas they would get through even when starting with 2 full 11kg gas bottles.

He had expected average temperatures to be much colder – warmest by day -5               by night -19, however they were still able to use their baby BBQ & Cadac, 2 items of the camping world they just can't leave behind.

Their Knaus L!VE I 650 MEG automatic motorhome effortlessly coped with the temperatures, when wild camping every other night they used the gas, when on sites they used their dyson fan - not once did they suffer from the cold, their on board heating system allowed the cold water never to freeze, they always kept a minimum of 3 days food supplies on board - just in case as they say.

Behind the scenes and in keeping with typical German winter driving protocols they had changed their summer alloys for steels and winter tyres, having these inspected when entering Finland by Finnish customs.

Their ‘road trip’ - travelling via northern Germany, took them into Denmark, ferry to Finland, Lapland, Ice hotel, finally up to North Cape (Norwegian: Nordkapp) – then back via Bergen, western fjords, catching the Gothenburg ferry back to North Germany and back home, all in all 7,100km, 20 days away – mission accomplished, as they say.

They say there was no dramas, the further ‘up’ you travelled the less traffic you encountered, except for fellow motorhomes and the odd caravan towed by the 4x4. Driving constantly on compact solid block ice became the normal, which you just forgot about as the days went by. In typical Scandinavian style camping sites were open for business, often having to assist in the digging out of a plot, electrics hanging in the snow was the normal.  Apart from the odd ‘real’ serious snow blizzard, in which you had to stop and on the odd occasion you completely lost the road and had to navigate via the red poles in ‘there really was nothing to it!! 

As they say a serious ‘tick in their bucket list’.

Finally, 'if' there are any fellow crazy travellers for whom this road trip may have wet their appetites and wish for further advice - not a problem, after all driving to sunny places is easy.

Thanks for the travel story and the photos! 

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