🚗 By Road
By Road
Driving across borders, hiring a car abroad and the paperwork nobody tells you about – plus the world's great road trips, with tolls, vignettes and low-emission zones decoded.
Driving across borders, hiring a car abroad and the paperwork nobody tells you about – plus the world's great road trips, with tolls, vignettes and low-emission zones decoded.
Additional-driver rules explained: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Airport car hire vs city pick-up: what to know, how it works and how to do it well.
Booking an automatic abroad, availability and the price gap.
CDW, excess, super-cover and what's actually worth paying for.
Car relocation deals explained: what to know, how it works and how to do it well.
Child car-seat rules in Europe: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Crit'Air and environmental windscreen stickers: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Which companies allow it, the surcharges and the paperwork.
When you can drive a hire car across a border — and the paperwork.
Documents to carry when driving abroad: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Driving a hire car in a city abroad: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Driving an EV abroad: charging explained: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Where they drive on the left and how to adjust safely.
Driving on the left: tips for visitors: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Driving with pets in the car abroad: what to know, how it works and how to do it well.
Fly-drive holidays explained: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Fuel prices in Europe: how to save: what to know, how it works and how to do it well.
The green card (car insurance) explained: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Hire-car fuel policies explained: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Hiring a car with a debit card: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
How roundabouts work across Europe: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
How to avoid hire-car scams: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Vignettes, tags and cash — country by country.
When you need an IDP, which type, and how to get one before you go.
The city zones that fine foreign cars – and how to comply.
Low-emission zones in Europe: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Mileage limits on hire cars: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
France, Italy and Spain: how the toll booths and tags work.
How drop-off fees work and when a one-way rental pays off.
How to drop the car in another city – or country – without huge fees.
Parking in European cities: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Renting a 4x4 in Africa: what to know, how it works and how to do it well.
Renting a campervan in New Zealand: what to know, how it works and how to do it well.
Insurance, deposits, fuel policies and the traps to avoid.
Everything a first-timer needs: licence, deposit, fuel and extras.
Renting a motorhome in Europe: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Renting a scooter in Southeast Asia: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Roadside assistance abroad: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Snow chains and winter driving rules: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Speed limits in Europe explained: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Whether a foreign fine can follow you home, and cross-border enforcement.
Whether your hire agreement allows it and how to book the crossing.
Toll-free driving in Europe: what to know, how it works and how to do it well.
The countries where you buy a sticker before you hit the motorway.
What to do after a car accident abroad: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Young-driver fees and age limits: what to know, how it works and how to do it well — clear, practical and up to date.
Distances, Ruta 40, fuel and the Patagonian roads.
Vast distances, road trains and outback rules.
The vignette, alpine passes and tunnel tolls.
Free motorways, lit highways and Brussels' LEZ.
Altitude, the altiplano roads and the Death Road warning.
Self-drive safari, the salt pans and border rules.
Distances, tolls, city traffic and the coastal highways.
The vignette, Black Sea roads and driving tips.
Vast distances, winter driving and border tips.
The long thin country, the Carretera Austral and border rules.
Why a foreign licence won't do, and how road trips really work.
Mountain roads, tolls, safety and the coffee region.
4x4 needs, river crossings, the roads and rental tips.
The coastal road, motorway tolls and island ferries.
Bridges, tolls and the rules for visiting drivers.
The Andes, the coast and the Galápagos exception.
City chaos, checkpoints, the desert roads and fuel.
The kit, documents and rules to carry country by country.
Long distances, reindeer warnings and winter rules.
Tolls, priorite a droite and the rules of the route.
The Autobahn, the Umweltzone stickers and the rules.
Mainland motorways, islands and rural roads.
The e-vignette, Budapest limits and rural roads.
F-roads, single-lane bridges and the Ring Road.
Traffic, the horn, hiring a car and driver, and the rules.
Bali and Java by car, scooters and why many hire a driver.
Narrow roads, left-hand driving and rural tips.
ZTLs, autostrada tolls and Italian driving culture.
Driving on the left, expressway tolls and an IDP.
The Desert Highway, the King's Highway and fuel.
Driving on the left, safari roads and the matatu reality.
Toll roads, the green angels and driving across the border.
City chaos, mountain passes and desert pistes.
Gravel roads, the desert, distances and 4x4 essentials.
Driving on the left, narrow roads and epic scenery.
Tunnels, toll rings and the rules for fjord roads.
Smooth highways, wadis, the desert and off-road.
Altitude, the Pan-American and the mountain roads.
Motorway tolls, the e-TOLL app and rural roads.
Tolls, the electronic Via Verde and coastal roads.
The rovinieta, mountain passes and road conditions.
Single-track roads, passing places and the NC500.
The vignette, alpine passes and Lake Bled.
Distances, safety and the Garden Route.
Motorways, fuel and the rules for visiting drivers.
Why most hire a car and driver, the roads and the rules.
Long distances, elk warnings and winter tyres.
The motorway vignette and alpine pass driving.
Safari self-drive, the roads and the border crossings.
Driving on the left, city chaos and island road trips.
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by car.
The e-vignette, Prague limits and rural roads.
Cycle lanes, low speed limits and the Randstad.
Smooth highways, Salik tolls and desert driving.
Driving on the left, roundabouts and the congestion charge.
Licences, tolls and the great American road trip.
The coast roads, the desert and the checkpoints.
Toll roads, the HGS tag and mountain driving.
Why most hire a car and driver, scooters and the rules.
Speed, etiquette and the no-limit stretches.
The dramatic SS163 – when to go and how to survive the bends.
The bridge-hopping coastal drive in western Norway.
Ten unforgettable drives, from fjords to the Mediterranean.
Scotland's 500-mile Highland loop, planned the smart way.
Circling Iceland on Route 1, season by season.
Bavaria's fairy-tale route through walled towns.
Germany's scenic Schwarzwaldhochstrasse.
Northern Ireland's coast to the Giant's Causeway.
Italy's spectacular pass route through the peaks.
Austria's spectacular high alpine toll road.
The historic road from the Riviera to the Alps.
Italy's legendary 48-hairpin alpine climb.
Norway's hairpin 'Trolls' Path' down the mountain.
Romania's dramatic high-mountain road.
Ireland's epic 2,500 km west-coast route.