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What's the best way from southern England to southern Sweden, by road, preferably avoiding long ferry trips?
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970 road miles according to TomTom crossing Dover/Calais based on Gothenburg.......long way didn't those juveniles from Top Gear do it in one series...??
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852 miles, taking 12 hrs 34 mins driving time according to viamichelin.co.uk from Calais to Gothenburg. Tolls ?34
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Harwich to Esbjerg,then straight across Denmark.
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Day 1: drive to Newcastle, have a night out in the Bigg Market (I'm returning there next month after a mere 27 year absence, I don't think I'll make it until closing time).
Day 2: Take an afternoon ferry to Scandinavia, enjoy the bar.
Day 3: Arrive, slightly worse off financially but with a spring in your step.
(Do ferries still run from Nucastle?)
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One option is chunnel, antwerp, arnhem, bremen, hamburg, lubeck and then (shortish) the ferry puttgarten - rodbyhavn, up to the malmo bridge and over from there.
Malmo bridge ain´t cheap though.
Best of luck, whatever you decide.
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I have done Harwich - Esberg -Harwich on a few occaisions.
20 hours but fairly flat during the summer. Not so flat in winter!
Then you are looking at approx 3 hours to get across Denmark and you are in Sweden.
You will need to cross two toll bridges about £100 return for both
www.storebaelt.dk/kollage/english
www.oresundsbron.com/prices/?products=28&menu=809&...1
Or cross the channel and either drive through Denmark and across the bridges or to Poland and take a ferry from Rostock to Trelleborg.
www.aferry.to/ferry-to-sweden-ferries.htm
Or fly with Ryan air from Stanstead to Malmo if that is an option?
God rejse
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Via the ferry from Newcastle, the missus and I intended to ride the Hornet from home in the UK to Sweden to take a biking holiday in the latter. Horrified at the cost of the ferry for a bike, we flew with Ryanair for the price of a packet of crisps, borrowed a V40 2.0T from my employer as wheels, and then had a damned good holiday enjoying whatever extravagance took our fancy. In the event, it also hammered down and then some, for day after day, so we were kinda glad we weren't on the Hornet anyway! Bike holidays are fun, even in the wet, but not for two weeks!
Enjoy Sweden; I'm lucky enough to have a Swedish employer and some good Swedish friends, and fly over for a few working days on a monthly basis.
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Thanks guys.
I'm trying to avoid a long ferry (or indeed any ferry), as I've got a trailer, dogs, and guns to take with me.
I had a look at the eurotunnel site, and interestingly they charge extra for dogs, but not for passengers. Maybe I could dress them up and claim they're kids. I see there's a bridge in Denmark, and you have to go quite a way north to use it, although I imagine there are short ferries further south.
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