About Us | Making Tracks | European Road Trip Holidays

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ABOUT US

We specialise in creating the most varied, exciting European road trip holidays starting and ending in the U.K.

Making Tracks is a small family business, specialising in unique road trip itineraries in Europe and the United Kingdom. Collectively we have 40 years' experience in researching and planning road trips, and have travelled extensively across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North America.

We meticulously research our routes and trips, so you don't have to. We stay at fantastic hotels in amazing locations, with breakfast and parking included, and restaurants either in-house or nearby.

We also love filming our trips, at no extra cost to you – this allows you to really be in the moment, knowing that your memories are being captured. We supply action cameras for on-car filming and drone footage where permitted, and we produce an experience video for you after the tour.

When you join us on one of our tours, we will drive the same roads, eat in the same restaurants, socialise in the same bars, and sleep in the same hotels as you do. We’ll be on hand throughout the road trip to answer questions and provide help if you need it.

Come experience the thrill of travel, whilst enjoying the company of other adventurers and driving enthusiasts!

PAST ADVENTURES

Here are some of my photos from my road trips over the last 20 years.

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Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik

ABOUT 'THE BOSS'

Back in 2011 while driving a Land Rover Defender to Georgia via Turkey, I decided to take a small country road that, on a map, looked like a minor road through local valleys. After several hours of driving some pretty rough tracks, in mud and finally in snow, I ended up miles away from anywhere, and the path had completely disappeared. It was dusk, and so rather than risk a long reversal down a narrow track in the failing light, we slept in the back of the Defender.

It was uncomfortable, cramped and cold, and we spent the night worrying if we had enough fuel to backtrack the next morning… but this is the spirit of adventure that I have grown to adore: the spontaneity, the feeling that no two days are the same.

My love for road trips and travelling started at age 19 when I hired a car abroad for the first time: a Mercedes ‘A’ Class in Salzburg. That day, I drove south over the Grossglockner

Pass and into Italy, slept in the car overnight outside Bolzano, and headed back to Austria the next morning, just in time to return the car before the 24-hour deadline. By comparison to my later adventures, it was pretty low-key, but it fired a passion that hasn’t burnt out in nearly 20 years.

I’ve since driven extensively across Europe, North America, and some areas of the Middle East -- both as an independent traveller and as part of family trips. For me, the journey is an essential part of the holiday, and allows me to experience cultures that I would never see had I been 35,000ft in the air. The feeling of self-sufficiency, having all the personal belongings we need with us, and not being reliant on the whims of airlines is a feeling that’s hard to beat. My next personal ambition is to partake in solo motorbike travel!

Road trips have never been about the vehicle I'm driving, but the places I'm seeing and the people I'm with -- these are the memories that stay with you forever.

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