[Captain Ahab Jr]

Good effort Motion and as you say Europe has a lot to offer, especially if you avoid the big cities and keep to back roads.

Over the last 3yrs our summer holidays have been European driving tours, we've done 7000 miles in 6 weeks through 18 countries from Belgium, down to Montenegro and as far across as Romania. No two countries are similar.

Hard to pick a favourite but I had to it would be Slovenia and the worse would have to be Serbia.

Some other favourites are southern Germany, southern Czech, Hungary and Switzerland.

My kids love it as you can't compare strolling around the streets of Pompei or walking around a WW1 cemetery or exploring a castle to reading about it on the web are seeing on the Histroy Channel. Best education they will ever experience.