Hi. I was thinking of driving from rosslare to lake garda in August with my husband and my 11 week old son ( he will be 8 months ). My husband is a very confidant driver and i%26#39;m sure he will be fine on the french and italian roads. I know that the flight to bergamo is cheaper , shorter and most importantly more comfortable for my son but am really frightened to fly. I wasn%26#39;t always , i flew everywhere but now i have decided that i don%26#39;t want to do it again and don%26#39;t want to put my son at risk. Am i insane to even consider driving? has anyone done this ? if so , have you hired a car or used an irish/uk car?
|||
Driving from Rosslare to Lake Garda will be much more dangerous than flying.
It is some 1750 km of driving, which would take almost three days on motorways.
|||
If you are completely set against the plane then car travel is the alternative, that%26#39;s your decision. Don%26#39;t think it id a negative, make it a positive benefit.
Your aim is to get to Lake Garda. I%26#39;ve done the same destination with a few more km but a much shorter sea crossing. Don%26#39;t regard it as a car race to match the speed of the plane, rather an opportunity to see places you would never experience when going by air.
Take a few days in each direction to experience different areas, Brittany, Loire valley, Auverne, Alps, Provence.....the choice is yours. Break the journey as it suits you and make the travel an integral part of your holiday, not just a distance to cover.
Touring is great, and very rewarding, plan it well and enjoy the experience.
Contact me direct for more info if you like
|||
My major concern would be having a RHS drive car in a LHS drive car country. That means the driver cannot see oncoming traffic and in many of the very narrow roads around the lakes this is a real problem. Has you husband had experience with driving this car on the continent? If not I really would suggest you hire.
And I do agree, if you are driving enjoy the trip and stay at lovely places on the way. Make them part of the holiday. Bubs will probably need that anyway as too long in a car seat will be very frustrating at 11 months.
Of course we know the stats on air travel vs car travel, it is just that we feel more in control somehow down at ground level. If the fear gets in the way of living your life, many places including airports now run %26quot;fear of flying%26quot; courses to desensitise you.
Enjoy the journey.
|||
Have you considered going to somewhere in Northern France instead, and cutting out all that driving, just on this particular occasion, being as your baby will be so young??
There are some Beautiful areas of Brittany, and in August, the weather should be fantastic - so you won%26#39;t miss out by not going further south!!
Driving a LHD is not too much of a problem on the Autoroutes, but on the smaller roads does become more difficult for the driver, and the passenger needs to be able to help a lot and concentrate, having young (very young) ones to contend with does not make this easy.
OF COURSE you can do it, but it IS a helluvalongway for one person to do all the driving, with young-uns in the car during the hot, Hot HOT month of August..............
|||
Whoops!!! I meant RHD, what am I on????
|||
%26quot; I don%26#39;t want to put my son at risk%26quot;.
I assume you are aware of the risk, as the risk to have a fatal accident is actually far higher on the road than on the air; statistics says x32 in Europe !
|||
-:- Message from TripAdvisor staff -:-
This topic was inactive for 6 months and has been closed to new posts. We hope you'll join the conversation by posting to an open topic or starting a new one.
To review the TripAdvisor Forums Posting Guidelines, please follow this link: http://www.tripadvisor.com/pages/forums_posting_guidelines.html
We remove posts that do not follow our posting guidelines, and we reserve the right to remove any post for any reason.
Removed on: 5:18 am, October 19, 2009
No comments:
Post a Comment