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Ha. When I was 7ish we drove to Hungary, straight! Long doesn’t cut it.
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From experience as doing it as a child, it is fucking boring and painful. Get sun blinds for all of the windows, when stopped use them.
Make sure the aircon is working, grumpy small bundle will make things painful and really hard to concentrate. Dunqurk is the longer crossing, but cheaper, and we used to go in to belgium germany Austria to avoid the tolls if we were going to the east side of Italy.
West side was sneaking in through customs points that weren't manned 24 hours a day....
If you are heavy footed, fuel can is handy, 10l at least.
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That's 5 days, aside from Dover and the GSB pass, they're where we're stopping overnight. Torre Colimena is the end location.
It's about 5 hours/day which is about the maximum I want to expose the boy to. Due to the fact we need to do it that quickly, it's mostly autoroutes (some tolls) apart from Switzerland and Italy, but if I smash the miles in the 1st 2 days and we end up doing our distance in 4 hours or less, I can look to extend the journeys on days 3, 4, and 5.
Not planning on sightseeing on the way down, time is looking to be split between driving or picnicing, the sightseeing will be the views from the car or the picnic. I don't want to take the boy from being strapped in the car seat to strapped in the pushchair, doesn't give him any free kick about time, so most likely going to stock up on tomatoes, cheese, meat, and bread every morning so we can eat well at the picnics.
His bed time is about 19:30 but his evening wind down time is about an hour, so ideally we'd arrive at where we're staying for the night at 18:00 to give us time to "set up" then get him chilling out, feeding, bath, then bed. He usually wakes up between 06:00 and 07:00 so by the time we're packed up and on the road I'm thinking we'll have about 10 hours to the next stop, so basically 1 hour rest time for every 1 hour on the road.
Obviously you have to be fluid but that's the current plan.
On the way back we've only got 4 days but he'll be a month older which is an eternity at this stage, so we think he'll manage an extra hour or two in the car per day on the way back.