Arrived in Arona

We’ve arrived to our first stop on the first leg of the 3-month trek through Europe.  It all started at one of the most southern points (Malta) of Europe and will reach out to the most northern in the Swedish laplands.

Arona is one of my favorite places and it made sense to start the journey here.  It’s got to be one of the most relaxing places in Europe.  Can’t speak enough about it.  Thanks to a fellow Tesla driver for introducing it to me when I picked the car up in Tilburg last August.

The first part was difficult. Two ferries and 40 hours later we arrived which is no easy feat with a 3 and 5 year old . More about that soon.

                 

   

 

From Malta to the Laplands

We’re about to embark on a 3 month family road trip in our Tesla from one of the most southern points of Europe to one of the most northern.  We’ll be using Superchargers along the way.

We leave Malta tomorrow at 5am and board the Virtu Ferry to Sicily. From Sicily we’ll disembark from Palermo aboard the GNV ferry to Genoa.  Once in Genoa, we’ll make our way to a B&B in Arona and that’ll be our first real stop. From there, we’ll figure out where to next. The idea is to go to Innsbruck, but we might just head over to Lyon instead and loop back over towards Austria later. We prefer spontaneity, however, one thing is certain, we’ll be making our way up towards the northern part of Sweden and back.

The idea is go go through Northern Italy, head towards France and then back through Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and through Germany (Dresden, Regensburg, Heidelberg, Berlin, Hamburg), Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and finally the UK).  We are moving from Malta to Cayman Islands so we are going to try to end the leg selling the Tesla in the UK (so we can repurchase an American version in Cayman).

 

 

 

Epic Tesla Road Trip

Haven’t updated the travel part of the website in a while but as you’ll see below, you can expect a lot more updates in the coming 3 months.

Ash and I are going on a solo (sans kids) trip to Paris on the 23rd for 3 days.  We will get back on the 26th and finish packing, and leave for the 30th on an epic 3 month road trip across Europe.

We’ll be driving in our electric Tesla and be utilizing the superchargers (free gas!) along the way. We’ll go from Malta by Ferry to Sicily and onwards through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and finally France and the UK. We depart the UK in late August to arrive back to Cayman Islands so the kids can start school.

We’ll be staying in B&Bs, airbnbs and hotels along the way.

Leg 1:

From Malta, we’ll board the Virtu Ferries and arrive in Pozzallo, Sicily. It’ll be a 3 hour drive to Palermo where we will board the GNV ferries to Genoa.

From Genoa we’ll travel to Arona and stay at a B&B for 4 days. We’ll then make our way to Innsbruck, Austria for another 4 days.

From Innsbruck, we’ll hit Salzburg and Vienna and make our way up towards Germany (Regensburg, Heidelberg/Rothenburg, Cologne, Dresden, Berlin, Hamburg)

Black square are places we’ll likely stay and red dots are the super chargers.

 

 

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Leg 2:

Sweden, Norway, Denmark

Leg 3:

France, Belgium, Netherlands

Leg 4:

UK/Scotland