Guides
Practical answers and inspiration for your European driving trip. When to go, what to drive, what to avoid — written by people who actually drive these roads.
Forty Swiss francs, one calendar year, mandatory on every Swiss motorway. Everything a foreign driver needs to know about buying the vignette, sticking it correctly, and the penalty for getting it wrong.
Alpine passes are more technical than they look. Hairpins, altitude, livestock, weather, buses on blind bends. Ten things that separate a good drive from a tense one — learned from people who drive these roads for a living.
Zurich, Munich, Milan or Nice? Which operators to use, what the deposit actually covers, what the mileage cap means, and the pitfalls that catch first-time renters — written for a driver, not a travel agent.