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Rally 09 fundraiser
Raising funds for the LDN research trust
The 2009 Karry on Krakow Rally Route
The start of the rally was St Omer in France, just a few miles south of Calais.
First stop after leaving St Omer was Koblenz in Germany. With a stop off at the Nurburgring, this an unbelievable experience - but not for the faint hearted!. It was virtually all motorway driving, travelling through Belgium and Netherlands on route. Koblenz is situated in the picturesque landscape of the Rhine and Mosel and is surrounded by 4 low mountain ranges. It is one of Germany's major tourist centres.
From Koblenz, we travelled down the Rhine gorge towards Bingen, to experience the finest scenery along the whole of the Rhine. Along this stretch there are more castles than anywhere else in the world. We then left the Rhine and headed off to our next stop, St Gallen in Switzerland situated halfway between Lake Constance and the Appenzell Alps.
From St Gallen we headed south to Davos for the start of the ’World’s best driving road’ as featured on Top Gear. The route took us across the Stelvio pass which at 2757 metres is the second highest paved mountain road in the Alps and regarded by motorists as one of the most challenging roads in the world, it has a total of 60 hairpin bends. We then made our way to our next stop, Ronan in Italy.
We moved on again, the route taking us through a beautiful Alpine valley, skirting the Triglav National Park in Slovenia onto our stay in Bled, the famous Lake Bled formed from a Glacier and is overlooked by the iconic Bled Castle.
The penultimate stop was Olomouc, in the Czech Republic. Here in the historic old town we found a multitude of fabulous old buildings and monuments, second only to Prague.
The final day. We drove through the Tatra Mountains to Krakow, Poland's most visited tourist destination. As a city, it has one of the most wonderfully preserved old-town complexes in Europe. On the way we visited Auschwitz and Birkenau on route.
We then motored back to the Hook of Holland for an overnight ferry crossing and back home on the Sunday.
First stop after leaving St Omer was Koblenz in Germany. With a stop off at the Nurburgring, this an unbelievable experience - but not for the faint hearted!. It was virtually all motorway driving, travelling through Belgium and Netherlands on route. Koblenz is situated in the picturesque landscape of the Rhine and Mosel and is surrounded by 4 low mountain ranges. It is one of Germany's major tourist centres.
From Koblenz, we travelled down the Rhine gorge towards Bingen, to experience the finest scenery along the whole of the Rhine. Along this stretch there are more castles than anywhere else in the world. We then left the Rhine and headed off to our next stop, St Gallen in Switzerland situated halfway between Lake Constance and the Appenzell Alps.
From St Gallen we headed south to Davos for the start of the ’World’s best driving road’ as featured on Top Gear. The route took us across the Stelvio pass which at 2757 metres is the second highest paved mountain road in the Alps and regarded by motorists as one of the most challenging roads in the world, it has a total of 60 hairpin bends. We then made our way to our next stop, Ronan in Italy.
We moved on again, the route taking us through a beautiful Alpine valley, skirting the Triglav National Park in Slovenia onto our stay in Bled, the famous Lake Bled formed from a Glacier and is overlooked by the iconic Bled Castle.
The penultimate stop was Olomouc, in the Czech Republic. Here in the historic old town we found a multitude of fabulous old buildings and monuments, second only to Prague.
The final day. We drove through the Tatra Mountains to Krakow, Poland's most visited tourist destination. As a city, it has one of the most wonderfully preserved old-town complexes in Europe. On the way we visited Auschwitz and Birkenau on route.
We then motored back to the Hook of Holland for an overnight ferry crossing and back home on the Sunday.