The route is set. My 0600 Sunday departure time is planned. The Rostock hotel room secured for Sunday night. The ferry to Gedser in Denmark at 0600 on Monday is booked, and I am banking sleep. I just need to load the car, hit the road and head 1800km north to get back to my place in Sweden.
On the way down before Christmas I took the long road with my father – we didn’t take the ferry. But that adds 350km to the trip. We took two and a half days (including time lost for fog from Dresden to Prague and on to Vienna. I should do the return in two.
On Sunday I will do 871km from Vienna to Rostock. My splits should be:
- Vienna – Brno: 2 hours
- Brno – Prague: 2 hours
- Prague – Dresden: 1.75 hours
- Dresden – Berlin: 2:25 hours
- Berlin – Rostock: 2:25
The following day
- Rostock – Gedser (by ferry): 2 hours
- Gedser – Copenhagen: 2 hours
- Copenhagen – Malmo (by The Bridge) : 0.5 hours
- Malmo – Jönköping: 2 hours
- Jönköping – Stockholm: 2.5 hours
All that assumes no problems with the weather, breakdowns and so on. But the real risk to my times is refugees. The Swedish and German governments have effectively suspended Schengen. They have re-instigated border checkpoints to look for refugees. Over Christmas we saw the big tailbacks that result when we crossed from Austria to Germany on the way to our ski resort.
Still a 15-20 minute tail back I can deal with. 18 hours of boredom on my own might be a different case!
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