Great European Road Trip - Part 1: Czech Republic, Germany & Austria
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- Great European Road Trip - Part 1: Czech Republic, Germany & Austria
Few trips are on more travellers bucket lists than a European road trip, and with good reason! Getting lost in the tiny towns and through the stunning nature of these amazing countries is the experience of a lifetime!
Great European Road Trip: The Plan!
Half the fun of going on a European road trip is planning one and we spent months and months staring at huge maps of Europe trying to plot our perfect route through the most beautiful countries, cities and nature we could find. The only problem, as you’ll soon find out, is that there is simply way too much to see and never enough time to see it all, so you’ve got to plan smart.
We’re huge road trip fans, so when it came to planning our Great European Road Trip we had a handful of countries that we knew no European road trip was complete without, including Germany, Austria and Italy - but we also wanted to add some new ones we’d never been to.
We’ve always loved Prague but always found ourselves walking around the same parts of the old city every time we visited and never getting out to explore the rest of the country. No road trip is complete without a car, and so Prague became our starting point and the spot where we launched off after picking up our trusty car, which Anne named Roger, and heading all through the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia - a journey through six countries, over twenty-three days and over 3,100km.
Great European Road Trip: The Rental Car!
Anne and I have been lucky to travel to over 40 countries together in the last five years, but until last June when we did our “Great American Road Trip” we hadn’t ever done a proper road trip together, and sadly just stayed close in to the city center areas or spent a day on a tour without getting out into the countryside to explore more.
Picking the right rental car is key, because if you travel like we do you’ll pretty much live in it. We’ve been Hertz Gold Plus Rewards members for years now and the perks of the membership simply make it a no brainer. Not only do we get the pick any car we want, but you can get access to the Hertz Connect device with wifi, phone calls and city guides as well as adding a second driver for free and earning Emirates Skywards Miles.
As with any traveling, it is the small things, perks, extras and benefits which add up to make all the difference, and this is one of them.
Anne picked a beautiful rust colored SUV, named him Roger and off we went to start our 23-day adventure!
Great European Road Trip: Czech Republic
Heading out of Prague was simple enough with our navigation and we knew what our first stop would end up being: to get a cooler! A quick stop at the local Czech shopping mall and Lidl, and we were packed with groceries, a full cooler and were heading north to czech out (see what I did there) the Sedlec Ossuari, a literal church made of bones.
According to history, so many people wanted to be buried on this site that starting in the 15th Century they ran out of space in the cemetery and simply started to use the human skeletal bones to build the church - which now contains the remains of between 40,000-70,000 individuals. Nice start to a romantic European road trip, huh?
If you have followed us for awhile you’ll know we rarely plan anything out at all, even where we’re staying at night. Anne managed to find the most random place we’ve ever slept tucked deep in the Czech countryside where a woman had renovated a horse trailer on her farm and listed it on AirBnb for $18/night - sold!
After a peaceful and quiet night we awoke to horses, goats, sheep, cats and one judgemental llama. Quick stop in the eco toilet and a breakfast from our cooler we were off to visit the Bohemian Switzerland National Park, a beautiful forest which is ironically on the border with Germany and the Czech Republic, nowhere near Switzerland.
Operation “Less Fat Jeff” was in full effect as we set off on the first hike of our Great European Road Trip through a stunning forest - the actual filming location for Narnia - and made our way up to the top to the largest sandstone arch in Europe, which isn’t as impressive as the hike itself, but well worth doing the hike.
Great European Road Trip: The Cooler & The Backpack!
Now, if you’ve followed us on our travels for very long you’ll know were hobo travellers and don’t much care to be fancy or spend a lot of money, so we always buy as much food as we can at any market or grocery store and pack...
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You both are Awesome. I Love you both of you
Aww, thanks so much Aman!
One of the best European road trip videos I’ve ever seen!!!!! Well done guys ❤️
Aww, thanks so much!
One of the best roadtrip video i've ever seen :D
Good job :)
Welcome! I am from Prague! Saying hello❤️ I love your EBC videos - I am leaving for EBC next week💕
Have a fantastic journey!
Another epic video guys. Can't wait for part 2 haha!!!!!
Woohoo - It'll be out Monday!
Love this!
So many great places in Europe and to see it on a road trip is amazing ❤️
Absolutely - always so many places to go back and explore more!
Damn i love you guys. Such love and interest and freedom 😢😢😢😢 i wish me and my wife could be like you guys. As far as the interest and freedom. You guys are incredible
Thanks so much! We've learned so much from traveling and just hope we're able to inspire a few people to chase their dreams as well, no matter what they may be!
Another amazing video, can't wait for part 2!
Thanks so much, Krysti - it'll be out Monday!
Wow that is great work 👍
Thanks for beautiful sharing 💖💖
Awesome Video !!!Jeff & Anne
love from Pakistan !!!!!!!
Kaleem Ali thanks so much, Kaleem!
May God Bless You Jeff & Anne
Love the vibes guys and the video, your videos make me smile every time I watch them! You have such energy, is incredible and I wish you all the best on your travels and looking forward for more of your adventures guys! :)
Thanks so much, Karina!
Thanks for inspiring . Just loved it.
Missing you, Jeff & Anne!
Always take care!
Thanks so much, Mark!
You people will always be my favorite. ❤️
Aww, thanks so much!
Please come to North-East India, I want to meet you so badly.
@@Dangoriaa Hopefully we'll be back soon to explore more!
Keep up guys. Your video is inspiring me to and I'm thinking to do European cross tour within the next 3 years.
Much love from 🇺🇲USA🇺🇲
Nice place visit....
you guys are very smart in video making, congrats!
Thanks so much, Ziad!
I wish one day you would show us Hallstatt.
Love your videos. Keep them coming :)
Aww, thanks! We'll do our best! Next video is out on Monday!
Level of awesomeness: 154 (on scale 1 to 10 ) :-)
woow happy journey
Awesome, can't wait for 2nd part of this amazing roadtrip :D
Btw, it's a pity that you didn't go to Slovakia, I think for example Hight Tatras and Slovak Paradise or even Low Tatras were worth a visit
Ohh man, I know! We were just looking at pictures of Slovakian National Parks last week - SO beautiful!
@@WhatDoesntSuck So maybe next roadtrip? :D
And If you will ever be in High Tatras you definitely need to go for a hike to Velická Valley. In my opinion it is the most beautiful valley in High Tatras which is freely accesable by hiking trail
You can take car to the mountain hotel Sliezsky Dom and than start a hike all the way up through the valley to the top of Východná Vysoká (8 000 ft. peak, which is also freely accesable by hiking trail). It's sooo beautiful!
I’m a new subbie and I’m loving this first video that I just watch I’m a young TH-camr I’m ere for the support and to learn
Your video is good. Background music👌
Subtitles 👍
Talking speed😉
U have earned urself a new subscriber
Mainly bcuz ur great roasting of Drake🤣👌
Mc Benji thanks so much!!
Pleasures all mine
Nice
Once again another brilliant vlog. Austria is pure 'whaaaaaat !! '
Also agree with Drake just talking is not music :p
Hahahaha, yes! On both accounts! Make sure to subscribe, Part 2 comes out tomorrow!
I would love to just go travelling and just abandon any plans as I really really struggle without plans in life from having to do specific routines in the morning or my day is going to be terrible to having to meet people at specific times or I'll freak out. I've only been to Spain so I'm really going to try and change my ways for the better to improve my relationship with people and to make it easier for them and to push myself out of my comfort zone and go travelling. Hopefully if I can save up for a few years I can continue to do some regular travelling.
Thanks for great information. I am trying to decide the best way to take a 14-21 day trip through Europe and this gave me so many ideas. I've always wanted to do a roadtrip throughout Europe but it's a little daunting and time consuming to see it all. I've considered other options like a cruise for part of the time and then just travel from the port for a few days or even a eurorail trip. But your video inspired me to look again at a roadtrip. We want to see as much as possible in this one trip. We want England, France, Amsterdam, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy. But how in only 3 weeks and with a family of 4? Love the videos though. Keep them coming.
You're trip just wouldn't have been complete without that judgemental Llama lol ;-)
love you guys!!! awesome video ..why dont you try one video per country !!
Haha, we only have so much time!
I live in Austria ( in Vienna) and my mother is from Germany:)
So jealous!
Your videos are all inspiring I wish I could do the same in the future! ❤
Thanks so much Nadirah - Hopefully one day!
Great video, would be nice to know which places you went to exactly, for example the exact mountains in Austria.. otherwise it's impossible to find these places ourselves..like I would love to see this viewpoint at 9:15
Absolutely - we're adding to this article all the time and will add more specific location points in the coming days so hopefully that helps! www.whatdoesntsuck.com/blog/european-road-trip-part-1
This place is called Koppeneck in Mieders, its located around 20 km south of Innsbruck. The name of the plattform is Serlesblick. Greetings from Austria!
@@mynoxx01 Haha, you're killing it Jessy! We can't even respond fast enough - thanks!
Jeff & Anne, you are welcome! If you decide to come back to austria for a visit, I can highly recommend going to Upper Austria/Salzburg or more precise Salzkammergut, its one of the most beautiful places in austria, Im sure you have heard about Hallstatt or the famous Attersee, also Salzburg City is absolutly worth a visit, I would happily give you a tour. :)
Oh, and by the way, Innsbruck is not a mountain town, its actually a city, I know most our cities are very small but its a city after all, lol.
@@mynoxx01 Ohh man, we have SO much more to come back and explore!
I really appreciate you guys, such an amazing couple, this is like my third time leaving comment on youtobe, anyway i want to recomendeed you to go to Flores and Sumba island in indonesia, it's really wonderful place with wonderful nature and culture, you guys will like that i think♥♥
sebas stan thanks! Hopefully we can come back soon!!
I‘m a little bit offended that everybody always thinks that Bavaria is all that Germany has to offer
Bro where are your videos now?
Arrange one road trip towards Pakistan.. Anne & Jeff
Kaleem Ali we hope to one day!
Thank you💗 😊
Great trip, but you missed Konigssee in Bavaria, is an amazing place
Adrienn Michaels so many places to go back to and explore more soon!
I would never do this
Hahaha....ummm, ok? Don't?
11:25 where is it? Tell me please :O
At this point they are somewhere northeast of Zell am See, probably Schönwieskopf or Schwalbenwand. Greetings from Austria!
@@mynoxx01 You're absolutely correct - it was Schwalbenwand!
I think you need to invite a subscriber along for a holiday, maybe you know, me
Haha, I wish we could!
Is Anne from Brazil?
Nope, France
Elon Musk on a road trip!
Man your Girlfriend is 100% Made in Czechia . She is Unskilled in English.
Please visit a beautiful country Pakistan 🇵🇰
We hope to one day soon! It looks beautiful!
What Doesn't Suck? Then welcome
Somaliland next
I find it painful to watch these two. ..
Aww, thanks so much! Really appreciate you taking the time out of your busy life to be a complete dick to a pair of strangers just trying to provide a little travel inspiration. The world needs more people like you!
A suggestion: tone down the Instagram smiles and laughs.
Show the real you. Talk like you would normally. Not everything has to be posed, curated.
Talk about the *real* aspects of travel, not just the Instagram stuff.
Be real.
This is how we are all the time, authentic and unedited. But thanks so much for the positive and uplifting comment, the world needs more people like you! Please let us know the next time you work really hard on something to inspire people and where you publish it so we can leave a positive message too!
@@WhatDoesntSuck But it's not authentic.
You're putting on your influencer smiles all the time.
You're not showing the real you... it's an act.
*Real* travel has its headaches, dull moments, arduousness, hunger, anxiety.
It's not all about Instagram smiles.
Your smiles don't look authentic because you're putting on a face... what you think will sell. People instinctively understand this.
Just tone it down.
Act like real people. You don't have to go influencer-mode throughout an entire video.
@@w0mblemania Ahaha jesus - You know this video is from 6 years ago right?
Instead of explaining about the tour and route and details about areas, these have been showing there faces all the time and I have to quit after 3 minutes of watching
Aww, wow Arshad - thanks so much for such a positive and uplifting comment and for taking the time and energy out of your busy day to post it - the world need more people like you! So glad you appreciate all the hard work and energy we put into creating engaging, unique and free content for you. Cheers!