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Hairpin bends and bears on the highway: readers’ favourite European road trips
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- Romania's Transfăgărășan Highway is described as a 'motoring perfection' with hairpin bends and opportunities for roadside bear sightings.
- A road trip around the island of Ireland offered varied scenery, rich history, culture, and friendly people.
- A Norwegian road trip featured scenic drives along fjords, hairpin bends, waterfalls, and opportunities for fishing.
- Driving Iceland's ring road in May provided dramatic landscapes, changing weather conditions, and few other cars, with highlights including whale-watching and geothermal pools.
- A trip to Orkney included stops at historic sites like the Falkirk Wheel, Kelpies, Scone Palace, and Dunrobin Castle, with the Caithness coastline being a major attraction.
- Germany's Romantic Road offered picturesque medieval towns and culminated at Schloss Neuschwanstein, with hearty Bavarian cuisine as a highlight.
- The Valle del Sagittario in Italy presented narrow limestone cliffs, stone stairways, cobbled alleys, mountain pastures, and the chance to see brown bears and a turquoise lake.