If you like novels inspired by and set in Italy, and films like 'Enchanted April', 'Only You' and 'Summer Madness', you might like the new novel by Alison Greaves, 'In Vacanza', available now as an e-book from amazon.
Well done, Jill. I hope it goes well. For me, living in Italy is still a dream. Maybe one day! And my own kindle book is a novel, inspired by that dream!
My partner and I have driven from Newcastle to the Venice region many times. The Dover-Dunkirk ferry is the cheapest (DFDS - used to be Norfolkline). We have followed the route through Basle, but found this took longer than our preferred route from Dunkirk to Dijon for an overnight stop. After driving from Newcastle to Dover before the ferry crossing, a rest is essential. After a good breakfast you can then drive through Lyon to the Tunnel Frejus and straight onto the A4 in Italy, through Turin, Milan, Verona and on to Venice. You have to pay French and Italian tolls on the motorways and the Tunnel isn't cheap, but this is the quickest route. I don't know which part of Italy you're going to, but the A4 is good for the northern cities. This year we're trying something different. We're getting the Newcastle-Amsterdam overnight ferry (not cheap, but it saves the overnight hotel cost and the petrol from Newcastle to Dover), then will have only one day's driving through Germany and Austria. I'll report back after we've been!
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Well done, Jill. I hope it goes well. For me, living in Italy is still a dream. Maybe one day! And my own kindle book is a novel, inspired by that dream!
My partner and I have driven from Newcastle to the Venice region many times. The Dover-Dunkirk ferry is the cheapest (DFDS - used to be Norfolkline). We have followed the route through Basle, but found this took longer than our preferred route from Dunkirk to Dijon for an overnight stop. After driving from Newcastle to Dover before the ferry crossing, a rest is essential. After a good breakfast you can then drive through Lyon to the Tunnel Frejus and straight onto the A4 in Italy, through Turin, Milan, Verona and on to Venice. You have to pay French and Italian tolls on the motorways and the Tunnel isn't cheap, but this is the quickest route. I don't know which part of Italy you're going to, but the A4 is good for the northern cities. This year we're trying something different. We're getting the Newcastle-Amsterdam overnight ferry (not cheap, but it saves the overnight hotel cost and the petrol from Newcastle to Dover), then will have only one day's driving through Germany and Austria. I'll report back after we've been!