[mani]

Basically me and a few of my relatives *all lads* are planning a wee road trip. its a non-boozing trip and just chilling out not doin much kinda thing.

What we want to do is hire a decent minibus - around 5 lads *all in mid 20's early 30's* and drive - stay a nite or two in some nice places

at the moment this is the trip i sorta have in mind

from east london down to dover cross over france down to strasbourg (are there any worthy diversion to be taken? any points of interest along that route? battlefields etc?)

from strasborg over to zurich across the alps to milan then down to torino then back over the alps over to lyon then dijon through paris and then back upto london *though i wouldnt mind going via normandy to see the landings*

stay friday night in strasbourg
stay satuday night in milan maybe torino
stay sunday somewhere in france and get back to the uk monday

after torino the route is flexible - as long as we pass thru paris and maybe via normandy to see the wwII landing sites. anywhere you can recommend to go thru france and stay the night???