The meeting point and start of the rally is St Omer in France, just a few miles south of Calais. Teams will be required to meet here after making the journey across or under the English Channel.
First stop after leaving St Omer is Koblenz in Germany. With an optional stop off at the Nurburgring, this an unbelievable experience - but not for the faint hearted!. It is 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 travel down the Rhine gorge towards Bingen, to experience the finest scenery along the whole of the Rhine. Along this stretch you will find there are more castles than anywhere else in the world. We then leave the Rhine and head off to our next stop, St Gallen in Switzerland situated halfway between Lake Constance and the Appenzell Alps. There is an optional visit to the Porsche museum at Stuttgart on route.
From St Gallen we head south to Davos for the start of the ’World’s best driving road’ as featured on Top Gear. The route takes 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 make our way to our next stop, Merano ‘city of flowers’ in Italy.
We then move 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. On route there is an optional visit to 'Tre Cime di Lavaredo', the three enormous freestanding limestone towers which are amongst the most beautiful and recognizable mountains in the World.
The penultimate stop is Olomouc, in the Czech Republic. Here in the historic old town you will find a multitude of fabulous old buildings and monuments, second only to Prague.
The final day. We now head off 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. There is an optional visit to Auschwitz on route.
It is now time to get rid of the cars and have some fun. There's an excellent nightlife scene and the salt mines of Wieliczka which are not too far away are well worth a visit.
| Team Name | Team Members |
| • Reservoir Dogs | John, Daniel and Mark |
| • The Singles | Gemma and Laura |
| • Make Mine a Large | Mick and Russ |
| • Travelodgers | Dianne, Bob, Linda and Alan |
| • The Inbetweeners | Pete, Jamie and Adam |
| • Team 911 | Trevor, Dan and Paul |
| • TBA | Cindy and Michael |
| • Bar Crawlers | Lee, Jonny and Dave |
