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Turkey
The Bosphorus, fairy chimneys and 8000 kilometres of coast
Lycian Coast
Antalya · Kaş · Fethiye
The D400 along the Lycian Coast is the most beautiful coastal road in Turkey. You drive it in ten days from Antalya to Fethiye, with swimming stops, ruins and three bases instead of packing your bags every morning.
Istanbul and Cappadocia
Istanbul · Cappadocia
The city on two continents and the fairy chimneys in one week: this route is the reason most people travel to Turkey for the first time, and it works entirely without a car.
Aegean Round Trip
Izmir · Çeşme · Kuşadası · Pamukkale · Bodrum
Ancient cities, wine villages, travertine terraces and the most beautiful coves of the west coast in one loop from Izmir. Twelve days, five bases, around 800 kilometres on good roads.
Black Sea Road Trip
Trabzon · Rize · Amasya · Safranbolu · Sinop
Tea plantations down to the sea, monasteries on cliff faces, Ottoman timber houses and a coast hardly any Swiss traveller has ever seen. Twelve days, a good 1,200 kilometres, a lot of green and a lot of rain.
Eastern Turkey Round Trip
Van · Doğubayazıt · Kars · Erzurum
Plateaus at 1,700 metres, a lake the size of the canton of Bern, Armenian churches, a palace in front of Ararat and the ruins of a capital on the border river. Eastern Turkey is vast, empty and hospitable.
Culinary Mesopotamia
Gaziantep · Şanlıurfa · Mardin · Diyarbakır · Nemrut
The best cuisine in Turkey is in the south-east: baklava, lahmacun, kebab in twenty varieties and liver for breakfast. Plus the oldest temples in the world, a stone city above the plain and the heads of gods at 2,150 metres.
West Coast Camper Van Tour
Çanakkale · Izmir · Çeşme · Bodrum · Fethiye · Kaş
Two weeks in a camper between the Dardanelles and the Lycian Coast: Troy and Assos, olive groves, windy bays, beaches where you sleep by the water, and harbour towns where in the evening you simply park the van.
Family Holidays Antalya
Antalya · Side · Alanya
Three places, never more than an hour's drive, always a pool in the evening: family holidays on the Turkish Riviera where the children get beaches, caves and boats and you see more than the hotel complex.
Marmara Cities
Istanbul · Bursa · İznik · Edirne
The Ottomans had three capitals before they took Constantinople, and two of them lie around the Sea of Marmara. You visit them by ferry and bus, plus İznik, where the tiles come from, and return to Istanbul as if seeing it for the first time.
Japan
Temples, the Shinkansen, onsen and the best food on earth
Golden Route
Tokyo · Hakone · Kyoto · Nara · Osaka
Big city, first ryokan night, temples, deer and street food in twelve days: the route for a first visit to Japan, entirely by train and with no backtracking.
Japanese Alps
Tokyo · Matsumoto · Takayama · Shirakawa-go · Kanazawa · Kyoto
Black castle, wooden town, thatched roofs and the samurai city by the sea: the round trip for anyone who wants to see Japan between the big cities, with no hire car at all.
Tohoku Onsen Tour
Sendai · Ginzan Onsen · Nyuto Onsen · Aomori
Wooden ryokan with gas lamps, milky forest baths in the snow and beef tongue in Sendai: the route for anyone who wants to experience Japan in a yukata, without a tour group.
Hokkaido Road Trip
Sapporo · Otaru · Furano and Biei · Hakodate
Empty roads, lavender to the horizon, fish market at seven in the morning: Hokkaido is the one part of Japan where a hire car is the better choice.
Setouchi & Shikoku
Hiroshima · Miyajima · Kurashiki and Okayama · Naoshima · Matsuyama
Ferries between hundreds of islands, art in concrete bunkers, a 19th century bathhouse and a cycle bridge across the sea: western Japan without the Shinkansen rush.
Kyushu by Van
Fukuoka · Nagasaki · Aso · Yakushima
Street stalls, a caldera of pastures and volcanoes, onsen in every village and at the end the rain island with its thousand year old cedars: Kyushu is Japan's van island.
Winter in Japan
Tokyo · Sapporo · Niseko · Otaru
Fuji views in Tokyo, ice sculptures in Sapporo, powder up to your hips and hot water under falling snowflakes: Japan in February is the best winter there is.
Japan with Kids
Tokyo · Yokohama · Kyoto · Nara · Osaka
Robots, a noodle museum, deer, Super Nintendo World and konbini food that children love: the Golden Route in its family version, with fewer temples and more breaks.
Kansai Food Trip
Osaka · Kobe · Kyoto · Nara
Japan's kitchen in 60 kilometres: street food in Osaka, beef and sake in Kobe, kaiseki in Kyoto and rice cakes in Nara, all by suburban train and without the hassle of moving on.
Switzerland
The Matterhorn, Lake Lucerne and the most punctual railway in the world
Grand Tour of Switzerland
Zurich · Lucerne · Interlaken · Zermatt · Lausanne and Montreux · Bern · Basel
The official Grand Tour is 1,600 kilometres long and needs three weeks. This version takes the best 900 kilometres of it: lakes, the Matterhorn, wine terraces and two old towns in two weeks, with seven bases instead of packing up every day.
Glacier and Bernina Express
Zermatt · Chur · St. Moritz · Bernina · Lugano
The two most famous railway lines in the Alps in one loop: from the Matterhorn over the Oberalp Pass into the Engadin, over the Bernina to Tirano and back through the Gotthard. No car, no changing trains with a suitcase in the rain, and you sleep where the panoramic trains only pass through.
Vanlife Alpine Passes
Lucerne · Interlaken · Aletsch · Lugano · St. Moritz
Seven passes, four language regions and not a single hotel: in a camper you drive from Lucerne over the great Alpine roads into Ticino and back into the Engadin, sleep on TCS sites and motorhome pitches and have breakfast with a glacier view.
City Trio
Zurich · Bern · Geneva
The three big Swiss cities lie on one railway line, and each is different: Zurich urban and on its lake, Bern medieval and on its river, Geneva international and French. You travel by train, stay centrally and never once need a car.
Bernese Oberland Hiking
Interlaken · Grindelwald · Lauterbrunnen · Gstaad
Four bases, seven day stages and the most famous mountain backdrop in Switzerland: you hike beneath the Eiger north face, above the Lauterbrunnen valley and finally through the quiet meadows of the Saanenland, with railways that carry you up so you only have to walk down.
Jungfrau with Kids
Lucerne · Interlaken · Grindelwald
One week, three bases and every day something children really want: a cogwheel railway, a boat, a scooter bike downhill, a toboggan run and a museum you are allowed to touch. No car, because children travel free on the trains with the Junior Card.
Eastern Switzerland and Rhine Falls
Zurich · Schaffhausen · Appenzell · Chur
The Switzerland that lies between Zurich and the mountains and that most people only drive through: the biggest waterfall in Europe, a small town with painted facades, the hill country of the Appenzellers and finally the gorge the Rhine has carved through the Flims rockslide. Short stages, plenty of time in each place.
Engadin in Winter by Train
Chur · Davos · St. Moritz · Bernina
Graubünden in winter without a car and without a compulsory ski pass: you ride the Rhaetian Railway from Chur to Davos, over the Albula into the Engadin and over the Bernina into the Poschiavo valley, sledge six kilometres from Preda to Bergün and cross-country ski on the frozen Lake Sils. A ski day is possible, but not a must.
Germany
Berlin, the Baltic, the Black Forest and the Alps on your doorstep
Romantic Road
Frankfurt · Rothenburg · Munich · Garmisch-Partenkirchen
ICE to Frankfurt, then a hire car via Würzburg and Rothenburg to Munich and on to the end of the road at the Zugspitze. Eight days of half-timbered towns, Riesling, beer gardens and a mountain to finish.
German Alpine Road
Lindau · Garmisch-Partenkirchen · Königssee
Germany's oldest holiday road from west to east: from Zurich to Lindau in an hour and a half, then 450 kilometres along the edge of the Alps to the first boat across the Königssee.
Baltic Vanlife
Hamburg · Rügen · Berlin
Pick up the campervan in Hamburg, drive via Lübeck to the Baltic, spend five nights between chalk cliffs and beach chairs on Rügen, then head to Berlin and hand the van back there. Ten days in the north without a single hotel change.
Berlin to Dresden
Berlin · Leipzig · Dresden · Bad Schandau
Nightjet from Zurich to Berlin, then ICE and Deutschlandticket through the east: three cities that are cheaper and more exciting than their reputation, and the Bastei at 7 in the morning to finish.
Rhine and Moselle
Cologne · Bacharach · Moselle · Heidelberg
In your own car from Basel to Cologne, then upstream through the castle valley of the Middle Rhine, into the loops of the Moselle to the winemakers and back via Heidelberg. Eight days of castles, Riesling and ferries.
Black Forest and Lake Constance
Freiburg · Hochschwarzwald · Lake Constance
Two bases, short drives, lots of time outdoors: four days in the Black Forest between Freiburg, Titisee and Europa-Park, three days on Lake Constance with Mainau, pile dwellings and Affenberg. From Basel in 45 minutes, back to Zurich in an hour.
Hamburg and Sylt
Hamburg · Sylt
Nightjet to Hamburg, two days on the Elbe and Alster, then three hours on the Marschbahn across the Hindenburgdamm to the island. Four days of wind, mudflats and beach chairs, all by bus and bike.
Harz and Saxony Walking
Wernigerode · Bad Schandau · Dresden
Two low mountain ranges that the Swiss underestimate: the Harz with the Brocken, steam railway and Hexenstieg, then the sandstone rocks of Saxon Switzerland on the Malerweg, with a day in Dresden to finish. All by train and bus.
Austria
Vienna, Salzburg, lakes and the mountains that would cost too much at home
Grossglockner Road Trip
Salzburg · Zell am See · Klagenfurt and Lake Wörthersee · Graz
From Mozart's city over 36 hairpin bends to 2,504 metres and down to the warmest lake in the Alps: the classic Alpine loop in your own car, honestly costed.
Salzkammergut and Danube
Salzburg · Hallstatt · Linz · Wachau
Four lakes, a World Heritage village, an underrated city and apricot dumplings by the river at the end: the route for anyone who prefers to drive Austria slowly, along the water.
Tyrol Ski Safari
St. Anton · Ischgl · Innsbruck · Kitzbühel · Mayrhofen
Five ski areas in ten days, a new mountain every second day, never more than two hours in the car: the winter route for anyone who finds a week at the same lift too little.
Vienna, Wachau, Lake Neusiedl
Vienna · Wachau · Lake Neusiedl
Imperial city, Danube valley and steppe lake in one week, all by train, boat and bike: the route for anyone who prefers to see Austria from the window and the saddle.
Hiking in Tyrol
Innsbruck · Ötztal · Zillertal · Kitzbühel
Four valleys, day hikes instead of hut-to-hut marches, cable cars included with the guest card and a bed with a shower in the evening: the hiking route for anyone who wants Tyrol on foot and by train.
Nightjet City Break
Salzburg · Vienna · Graz
Mozart's city, the imperial capital and the underrated southern city in one week, all by train, with the return trip in your sleep: the city route for anyone who wants the station right in the centre.
Arlberg and Vorarlberg in Winter
Bregenz · Lech · St. Anton · Ischgl
From Lake Constance through the Bregenzerwald onto the Flexenpass and into the Paznaun: eight winter days between cheese cellar, powder snow and après-ski, two hours from Zurich.
Family: Lakes and Mountains
Klagenfurt and Lake Wörthersee · Zell am See · Salzburg
Warm lakes for splashing, a glacier with snow in July and a mine with slides: the family route for children aged four to twelve, with only two moves and hotels with pools.
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