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Hairpin bends and bears on the highway: readers’ favourite European road trips

Hairpin bends and bears on the highway: readers’ favourite European road trips
Travel | The Guardian

From Iceland to Italy, you share your best adventures behind the wheel • Tell us about your favourite European hike – the best tip wins a £200 holiday voucher Jeremy Clarkson described Romania’s Transfăgărășan Highway as “one unbroken grey ribbon of motoring perfection”. The route (the second highest in Romania after the Transalpina) with its hairpin bends and climbs over the mountain was thrilling. Although we’d been told bear sightings were possible, we didn’t anticipate spotting them literally on the roadside, with one hanging over a stone wall posing for photographs, taken through the car

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