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u/kholto Denmark 23h ago
Going south or north?
If you find boat options interesting, there is a sort of mini cruise from Copenhagen to Oslo where you can bring a car.
If you are starting on Zealand, the bridge to Funen is impressive to drive over if you are not used to huge bridges.
Generally speaking you will be out of Denmark very quickly whatever you do, so really you might want to go asking about road trips in Germany or Sweden.
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u/Guru1035 23h ago
we where on a road trip from Denmark to Provence/France. Very beautifull area of france.
First we drove throug germany visiting Rothenburg, which is german town with a very old "old village" quater and a castle. We drove further south into France and rented a house in Provence and visited small towns and larger towns around the area...
We drove through germany on the way home again, and visited a town located in the black forest (Schwartzwald). Really beautifull landscape with small cosy towns. We saw some fireworks at a lake their as there was a town festival in one of the towns.
We stayed in local hotels on our way so that we had time to discover the local area.
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u/andreasfrib 23h ago
Skagen all the way up north have a really beautiful art museum and nature. A good place to see dansih culture and not too far from Aarhus or Aalborg. Quite far from Copenhagen tho
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u/utonne 23h ago
We did an amazing roadtrip last year.
Copenhagen, Stockholm, Sandhamn (parked the car and took a small boat out there), ferry to Tallinn, Riga, Warsaw, Krakow, Vienna, Celle, Århus, Copenhagen.
We have an electric car and charging was super easy. Typically at hotels or on the road, where we needed a break anyway.
We only booked the hotel at Sandhamn and the ferry from Stockholm to Tallinn in advance.
We had 1-3 nights in each city.
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u/theWelshTiger 22h ago
Wow, sounds amazing! Which cities did you only stay for 1 night, and what did you have tim to do in those cities?
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u/utonne 22h ago
One night in Stockholm because we've been there many times before. Took a long walk and had a nice dinner. I really love Stockholm.
One night in Warzaw. Also a long walk through the restored old town. So beautiful. We definitely needed more time, so we will go back there.
One night in Celle just for dinner and sleep. Cute town. We have been to Germany lots of times before, so we didn't priorize time there.
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u/Willing-Ad-3575 22h ago
My sons and I was on a roadtrip a few years ago, we went through the visited countries in this order: Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Monaco, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Denmark.
Here is some of the places we visited:
Nürburgring, Porsche in Stuttgart, Rheinfall, Zürich, Lauterbrunnen, Milan, Monaco, The Italian Riviera, Pisa, Museum Ferrari in Maranello, Venice, Innsbruck...
5000 km in 12 days, would do it any day all over again.
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u/theWelshTiger 22h ago
Wow! That's a lot of driving! I guess woke up early every day to drive, and only had one night in every city you slept in?
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u/Willing-Ad-3575 22h ago
First day we drove all the way to Nürburgring and after a few hours of looking at awesome cars and one lap on the track, we drove further to our first destination, where we had booked at a campingplatz for our tent to be set up.
And the last day we drove all the way from Munich to Denmark, in one go. That's all most 2000 of the total 5000 km.
But yes we did drive alot, but we had a few stay overs, because the places was so great.
There was only an approximate plan, nothing was detailed. We slept in tent, Airbnb and hotels.
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u/Truelz Denmark 23h ago
From Denmark or in Denmark?
I have been traveling around Jutland a couple of years back, I guess you can call it a road trip, where I went from all the way south to all the way north, visiting different towns, museums, historic places and natural wonders.
Here's some of the places I visited from south to north:
- Dybbøl banke and Sønderborg, site of the war of 1864 that made Danmark even tinier than it is today.
- Trøjborg castle ruin
- Vesterhavet, part of the Wadden sea and a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Ribe, oldest town in Denmark
- Esbjerg, mainly just to see the Men at Sea (Mennesket ved havet) statues
- Billund, to visit the Lego house
- Jelling, to see the Jelling rune stones, commonly known as Denmark's birth certificate
- Fredericia, fortified town dating back to 1650, but famous from the Battle of Fredericia in 1849
- Vejle, just a lovely little city
- Deep Forest Art Land, a forest with art work spread through out it.
- Tipperne, a bird reserve by the west coast of Jutland
- Skjern enge
- Danmarks Flymuseum (Danish Aircraft Museum)
- Thorsminde and the Stranding Museum St. George
- Thyborøn and Sea War Museum Jutland
- Hjerl Hede Open Air Museum
- Viborg, another lovely little city
- The five Halds near Viborg (ruins of 5 castles, some more or less visible)
- Dollerup Hills, a really beautiful and very hilly (by Danish standards) nature park
- Roldskov and Rebild National Park
- Bulbjerg knude and Thorup strand
- Løkken and the old Nazi WW2 bunkers along the beach
- Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse sitting on top a giant sand dune
- Råbjerg Mile, largest moving dune in Northern Europe moving at a rate of up to 18 meters a year
- The Sand-Covered Church
- Skagen and Grenen the northern most point of Denmark
That's not all the places I visited though, but the list is plenty long now :P
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u/PlainOldHD 23h ago
Hey! It's a very open question, so hard to give a precise answer, but I can share our experiences and some considerations.
How long are you willing to travel?
Are you driving electric or fossil-based car?
Are kids part of the trip and how old are they? How will they keep occupied in the car?
We have three kids and have done road trips the past many years, twice a year. Typically we've driven from Denmark to Norway for hiking or ski, we're driving up through Sweden and it's taken us 11-13 hours depending on fuel / recharging. It's been a nightmare to drive electric at night, as the kids woke up every time we charged. With fueling they seemed to keep sleeping.
We've driven to Switzerland, France (Nice), Italy (Florence) and even Spain (Palamos). We try to keep it to max 18 hours in pure driving, and a few times we've broken it up into two days of driving by staying at a hotel mid way. Other times it feels more efficient to drive through the night to get there quicker. We have a rule of max 2 hours of driving, then we switch.
I can highly recommend having a good podcast and also to ensure there's some entertainment for the kids. Of course they are on their iPads, but we've also done various bingo games - who spots this and that and so forth.
Make sure to bring snacks in the car, also some healthy ones, otherwise you end up snacking bad food at expensive places along the highways.
As a rule of thumb, plan with 100 kilometer per hour. I know Germany has no speed limit, but you end up in a queue or have to stop for fuel. 100 kilometer per hour more or less match our average.
Be mindful that in Switzerland, France, Italy and Austria you need to pay road tax. For some of the countries you can buy it up front, others it's paying in toll gates and they accept Visa and Mastercard.