Route post-mortem

I've been having a play with the routing you can do on Google Maps. If you click on the links below you should be able to see the route we followed, where we stopped and some of the places where significant "events" took place.

All works well apart from Day 3 where Google Maps simply won't navigate only the roads we travelled, hence this day appears in three parts.

The tally for the Google Maps route is 4520km. You can see from the picture that the actual distance driven was 4562km. No doubt some of the delta is by a couple of undocumented excursions to use the phone and the like. Even so, it's amazing how Google Maps manages to be 99.1% accurate over such a long trip.

Day 1 - Helmshore to Doncaster, Ashford, Dover, Calais, Bruges
673km, about 8 hours 42 mins

Day 2 - Bruges to Maastricht, Frankfurt, Davos
1,051km, about 10 hours 5 mins

Day 3 (Part 1, part 2, part 3) - Davos to Stelvio, Trento, Bar, Ristorante, Odina
611km, about 7 hours 13 mins

Day 4 - Odina to Castello d'Albola, Castello di Metelo, Odina
94km, about 1 hour 55 mins

Day 5 - Odina to Florence
72km, about 1 hour 22 mins

Day 6 - Florence to Helmshore
2,019km, about 20 hours 51 mins