Driving from England to Turkey

[Pompeylil]

Great reading, thanks for the postings, we are going to drive to Calis this summer,  just in the process now of trying to sort car insurance, green card and road side assistance (just in case) any tips on this would be greatfully received.
Carol

[Scunner]

Yes it is all extremely informative stuff. Thanks all!

[Old Daffodil]

France is a very large country to cross. There are hotel chains across the country. F1 are very basic with just a room and showers on each floor which are shared and self cleaning,they are cheap and clean with a breakfast bar in the foyer. B and B Hotels and Campanile are like a Travelodge and the Mercure chain is comfortable too. Chambre de hautes are becoming very popular and are family farm accommodation. In Italy the hotels are more privately owned. On the road signs it took me a while to realise that Turin is Torino in Italy!There is a hotel called the Davide in Rivoli which is comfortable and has a good restaurant nearby.There is also a pleasant family owned villa which is called Cascina Bella Vista and offers accommodation and breakfast which is on the route past Turin at a village called Brico Barrano in the Asti area.
 

[Ovacikpeedoff]

Before you enter Turkey fill your car with petrol as it is much cheaper in Greece. We were paying about 1.42 euros. At today's rate about about 1.15 sterling and much cheaper than turkey.

[Old Daffodil]

Make sure you have the European motoring kit or you can be fined and also the EHIC health insurance card for Europe.

[captainjon]

Hi, Re the roadside assistance you might like to include ADAC,its a German based company but with very strong back up across Turkey as well as Eu.good luck

[MarkPatterson]

This is something I'd like to do!  I would imagine though that the Bulgarian route would be much quicker.

I wouldn't mind doing the German, Austrian, Slovakian, Bulgarian route into Istanbul going to Tukey and then coming back from Fethiye or Izmir and crossing on the ferry to Greece and then on to Italy and up through France.

[KKOB]

The Bulgarian and Greek routes are fun, especially when looking for direction signs, because they use different alphabets to us.

[Eric]

Plus in Bulgaria the speed limit is 50kph on all none motorway routes and there is a speed trap on virtually every bend.  We have done it once, never again, we will do the Greece route every time.

[Scunner]

It might sound like a daft question but did people who drove across Europe find that their European Satnav maps (for those who used satnav) were reliable and accurate? I find myself driving along a road that doesn't exist on screen every time I go to Edinburgh airport and was wondering if anyone had any confusion along this drive across the continent?