Haha, o well, I am content without any prizes in mind (atleast at the moment !! :)) but I kept playing with the Idea and enquired some friends whether they would be willing to join the little tour.

Sadly enough, the first impressions were that we'd have to skip the Nurburgring part as it would bring great problems just to try to work the vacations accordingly.. But anyway, I made up a small travel-plan .. please check it out and give me some suggestions (I've been to fex. Germany a couple of times before but only once with a car and I was too young to remember much anything about it). Mostly what I'm wondering about is where-to-stay (and no, please no travellers homes :)) and how long do these drives I've included here Actually take:

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Amersfoort, Netherlands

QUICK CENTRAL EUROPE PENETRATION TOUR 2001
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Finland-Sweden-Denmark-Germany-Netherlands
Netherlands-Germany-Denmark-Sweden-Finland

VW Golf V6 4motion 2.8 5-door, air condit.

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Shorter Tour plan:


Thu 24.5. 17:00 Cruiser (Silja Line) Helsinki-Stockholm
- night on the cruiser -

Fri 25.5. 09:30 At Stockholm harbour, takeoff towards
Malmo (~6oo km) from where head towards
Kobenhavn over the bridge (~3o km)
19:00 Estimated Time of Arrival in Kobenhavn
- night in Kobenhavn or Odense, Denmark -

Sat 26.5. 10:00 Start forward Odense-Hamburg-Bremen-Osnabruck-
Enschede-... What's a nice location to stay at?
(~88o km, autobahns? to Amersfoort)
- night in a hotel, Germany / Netherlands axle -

Sun 27.5. 09:00 Final move towards Amersfoort, distance
depending on how far we drove on Saturday.
12:00 The 2nd European Empeg meet begins
http://empeg.comms.net/ (announcements)
- night at Campanile, Amersfoort, NL (40UKP) -

Mon 28.5. 09:00 Start back towards Kobenhavn (~88o km, autobahns?)
- night in Kobenhavn, Denmark or Malmo, Sweden -

Tue 29.5. 08:00 Start drive to Stockholm harbour (63o km)
17:00 Cruiser (Silja/Viking) Stockholm-Helsinki
- night on boat cruiser -

Wed 30.5. 09:30 Helsinki, Finland


About 3000 kilometers in total.