THE DRIVE OF A LIFETIME! GrossGlockner Pass
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Күн бұрынJoin Sophia Mayrhofer and I as we undertake the most amazing drive - the GrossGlockner Pass in Austria. It really is one of the best road trips in Europe.
00:00 - Eerdbeertorte - Cake with a view
00:14 - The GrossGlockner Pass
04:17 - Wrap-up and thank yous
06:07 - More details at the Motorhome and Caravan Show
Please check out this beautiful motorhome and locate your nearest Dethleffs UK Dealer at:
www.dethleffs.co.uk/motorhome...
To see Sophia's stunning images of the day (which will be ready in a week or two), please follow Dethleffs UK on social media:
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There will be more videos to come over the next couple of weeks including a full review of this beautiful Dethleffs Trend i7057DBL Motorhome, so please stay tuned!
For prices and details of the GrossGlockner Pass, please see: www.grossglockner.at/gg/en/index
I'll be giving a talk about this magnificent drive every day at the Motorhome and Caravan Show at the NEC in Birmingham in October 2022. For a discount on tickets, please pause the video at the relevant chapter as given above.
@AvantionTour 2 жыл бұрын
Great Video, but with a tear in my eyes. Hard to believe how the Pasterze has lost its ice since my last visit there in the early 80s. But its the same nearly everywhere. A shame that our children and grand children will later see the once large glaciers only on pictures. Great work Andrew. Could have gone twice the time. 🥰
@anthonybeattie5689 2 жыл бұрын
I’m sure the glaciers will return when the cycle moves on 🙄🙄🙄🙄
@lyn1337 2 жыл бұрын
Glaciers have been losing mass for decades now due to the rising temperature. It's not a cycle.
@CliffordDive Жыл бұрын
Hello Avanti on Tour. Just noticed your name and thought I'd say hello. I'm the Chairman of la Strada Club UK, so always pleased to see a la Strada - we don't see many here in UK or in Europe.
@AvantionTour Жыл бұрын
@@CliffordDive Thanks a lot. After four years with an Avanti F we switched to an Hymer BMC T550 some months ago. 👍👍
@CliffordDive Жыл бұрын
@@AvantionTour - I also have to admit that we changed our Regent L for a Pilote P650C after 15 years, bit I'm allowed to stay in the Club!
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Whatever you're doing, stop doing it, and head to Austria to drive this magnificent road! I think in the near future I shall be renting a motorcycle in Salzburg and doing this again... ;)
@MichaelWirdefalk 2 жыл бұрын
I literally could not be anymore jealous. What an incredible drive. Another to add to a mile long bucket list. Beautiful videos and photos.
@lindaelizabethcole3675 Жыл бұрын
Gosh this brochure that Sophia is photographing will be absolutely knock out magnificent , footage Andrew , they are bound to sell many of these wonderful motorcaravans , truly stunning views , just magical, wowwwwwwew
@christinespiers3947 2 жыл бұрын
Love the video
@andrewjditton Жыл бұрын
Thanks Christine!
@martinsauszeit 2 жыл бұрын
Great pictures. Thanks. I joined this Pass in summer 2018 with my brand new Pössl Van. Moments we' ll never forget.
@andrewjditton Жыл бұрын
Excellent! I hope the van brakes were OK afterwards! Ours were OK as we kept stopping for photos :)
@barbarawiddowson635 2 жыл бұрын
Wow,just wow!!!Thank you for this amazing drive Andrew!
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it Barbara!
@lindafielding6733 2 жыл бұрын
Wow! Just wow!
@carolynhaywood7701 2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful, thanks Andrew.👍
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it Carolyn!
@katcankan7129 2 жыл бұрын
Simply beautiful 🤗💜
@lindsaybenison813 2 жыл бұрын
WOW, just WOW
@bobhalliday8934 2 жыл бұрын
Again amazing and Sophia’s photos truly amazing what a trip
@jaynepearson187 2 жыл бұрын
WOW!!!
@avidviewer1 Жыл бұрын
I experienced the GrossGlockner several times in the sixties but was too young to appreciate its beauty. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to enjoy it now, and thanks also for another really great video!
@andrewjditton Жыл бұрын
Glad to be of service, and glad you enjoyed it. It really is stunning!
@lindakirk698 2 жыл бұрын
Just amazing! Thanks x
@andrewjditton Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it Linda!
@drivingthefrontier 2 жыл бұрын
Great video, thanks for sharing that with us. Love the drone photography.
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it P&J! Yes, putting the new Mini3 Pro through its paces.
@HitchUpAndTow 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing views, thanks for sharing
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed :)
@suewelburn2084 Жыл бұрын
Stunning!
@andrewjditton Жыл бұрын
Are you channelling Joseph S there Soobs? That was his word! ;@)
@Jungheinrick 2 жыл бұрын
Stunning scenery! Cracking video...keep it up AD
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it Chris!
@johnrawlings8310 Жыл бұрын
I enjoyed every second of that video. Fantastic. And the motorhome looks great, too.
@andrewjditton Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much John!
@traceyg9554 2 жыл бұрын
Wow! That is definitely a must do! What a vlog that was 👏🏻👏🏻
@andrewjditton Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it Tracey!
@startaylor123 2 жыл бұрын
Stunning 😍 😍 😍
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! 😊
@ExtremeMotorhomingAdventures Жыл бұрын
Wow looks an amazing drive😀 loving the down facing drone shot of the bends in the road, what a shot that was👍
@genewalker2898 2 жыл бұрын
Best video on you tube, thanks.
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Wow, that is high praise indeed, thank you very much!
@yaminthegrey 2 жыл бұрын
Hari OM ... ... and breathe... ... ... ... 🤗 YAM xx
@marthakjolsrud2660 2 жыл бұрын
Stunning! Thank you. I'm sure Dougal will be jealous of your time with Sophia. He obviously is enamored of her.
@andrewjditton Жыл бұрын
Yes, and Sophia wasn't too impressed about the lack of Dougal either!
@marthakjolsrud2660 Жыл бұрын
@@andrewjditton LOL
@steveboatman 2 жыл бұрын
That's defiantly on our bucket list Nice one Andrew
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Do it! ;)
@1mw2mam 2 жыл бұрын
beautiful - fabulous video cinematic really made the scale and scenery stand out - we did this 5 years ago and walked to the the glacier. so good to watch - thanks.
@andrewjditton Жыл бұрын
Kudos for walking to the Glacier! Although in our defence we were up at 5am to get these shots and still didn't leave till 3pm when Sophia had to get back to Munich...
@MarkN67 6 ай бұрын
Lovely video and photography. We were on holiday back in September with a brand new hire car, we got to the multi-storey car park at the top and the car went into limp home mode. We made it back to the toll gate at the bottom doing 30mph all the way down. It turned (according the engineer who came out) the car wasn’t getting enough oxygen and shut the engine down thinking there was a problem.
@mikeswift6713 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the stunning video showing us what we missed 49 years ago on our first visit of three to Austria. We were supposed to take a bus trip over the pass but it was closed due to snow, in July. We did manage a trip over the Fern Pass and a trip along the Danube to Vienna among many other magnificent tours on our visits to Austria. If you are ever in Norway a trip up the Dalsnibba runs this video a close second.
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Ooh, Norway is certainly on my list, thanks for the tip!
@richardbinnie 2 жыл бұрын
Great video and a fantastic road to travel. Loved the drone shot at 3:27, looking so like a model. Incidentally and as a complete aside have spent the last 10 days driving from Barra to Stornoway. That was pretty fantastic also. 👌
@andrewjditton Жыл бұрын
Oh wow, hope you had a great time! Sorry about the weather - summer hasn't quite reached the islands this year :-/
@lyndamk 2 жыл бұрын
I was there in May, it’s so stunning
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Yes! You probably had more snow in May making it even more magical :)
@lyndamk 2 жыл бұрын
@@andrewjditton we did, it was beautiful. They’d just reopened the road
@manorbleak1 2 жыл бұрын
We did that pass in the 60's in a Morris Traveller with my parent's and their friends in a Mini Traveller.
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Wow! Bet that was some trip.
@michaelperkins5746 2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant andrew reminds us of our canada tour
@ncplantdoctor 2 жыл бұрын
Just about anywhere you point a camera along that road, there was a beautiful photo opportunity. Still, the drone shot was a standout.
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks very much!
@petertitterton6836 2 жыл бұрын
Oh wow, how it has changed. We stayed in a Chalet near the toll booths 40 years ago for a week and drove it then. There were a large number of motor manufacturers test/development vehicles in the car park at the top. It was the first good weather day so they were all out in force! Mainly testing brakes. A very memorable drive, but the road looks much wider now.
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Interesting! I doubt that happens any more, I can't think that car testing and rubbernecking tourists like us make a safe combo on the road! ;)
@petertitterton6836 2 жыл бұрын
@@andrewjditton on the way up we stopped near a place where a hose pipe had been arranged to direct spring water and a driver was cooling off his front brakes. When asked if the decent was that bad he said it was when you were testing the brakes to their limits! The test cars had lots of wiring connected to the front wheels that came up over the wings and disappeared into the bonnets. They probably do it all in a lab now or simulate it on a computer. We had to wait several days before going up because of the weather. You had a fantastic trip!!
@MyChannel-di2ho 2 жыл бұрын
WOW... that's all I can say.
@MYJ61 2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely breathtaking!
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
It really is!
@GaetanHobby 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Andrew 🙏🥰
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
You are so welcome mon ami.
@IngramCars 2 жыл бұрын
Oh my that looks incredible, and wonderful photography too!
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much Simon :)
@markgollan 2 жыл бұрын
WoW!! Amazing!
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it!
@ctrabalful 2 жыл бұрын
The Alps are my favorite destination in Central Europe, going back for 2 weeks riding my Harley this month.✌️ when are you expecting your new Caravan Andrew?
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Next time I go I'm considering renting a bike in Salzburg :) All being well I collect the new caravan in a fortnight. It was pushed back at the 11th hour when I got Covid :-/
@stevea406 2 жыл бұрын
WOW!! scenery speaks for itself, loved your selection of "moving music".
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Many thanks Steve!
@susanbinks8868 2 жыл бұрын
Hi Andrew, Wow!!! the Views are breathtakingly Beautiful & a great opportunity for Sophia with her Camera. Thank You so much for sharing. Lots of Love to Dougal back Home & to You & Sophia 💖💖💜💜 XXXX
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it Susan :)
@jaredb9281 2 жыл бұрын
We were there about a week before you! 😃 We came from the other direction I think, after coming from Lake Garda via the Dolomites. It is such a stunning drive. We had to stop near the end, because despite my low gear slow drive down, the Ducato's brakes were literally smoking! 😲 We stayed in the same campsite for a night after completing it. A nice site, but for €66 a night we were shocked it didn't include use of the pool or even the kids' trampolines! Is Dougal getting too old to join you? 😕
@andrewjditton Жыл бұрын
I don't take Dougal on long distance/short duration trips any more as the travel and heat would be too much for him now he's 11. My pitch fee was nowhere near €66 (more like €35, but it was one adult) but I too was disappointed by the charge for the swimming complex. At least the outdoor swimming lake was free though!
@hywel3143 2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely stunning, thanks Andrew and Sophia! My parents told me that they drove the GrossGlockner pass in a 1960s Austin A40. After seeing your video, kudos to the A40! Apparently it overheated twice... I'm sure the Dethleffs did much better :-)
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Yes it did - and we certainly put that gearbox to the test!
@AvantionTour 2 жыл бұрын
Yesssssssss. 👍👍👍👍 You saved my evening. 😂
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Glad I could help :)
@susanyates4233 2 жыл бұрын
Scarier than Buttertubs.
@anneshirley1748 2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely stunning!! It's no good, I must go back there! Sophia's photos as always were beautiful! Would you like to see mine from Lewis?! I was quite sort of impressed with them, although the scenery there was the contributing factor I must confess!! Great vlog Andrew, superbly filmed, fantastic!! Hugs xxx 😘🐕🥰🇦🇹
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot Anne! Yes, do bring your photos to the NEC :)
@bobnicholson4702 10 ай бұрын
We are driving it in a few days. We have a 8mt MH towing a small car on a trailer. Is it possible?
@andrewjditton 10 ай бұрын
Possible, yes. Might be a bit arduous though.
@bobnicholson4702 10 ай бұрын
We did it. Absolutely no issues going up. People over dramatise what is not dramatic. Going down had to stop several times to let brakes cool. Remember we did it in a 8mt 3.850kg Motorhome towing a 5mt trailer with a car on it.
@prou5 2 жыл бұрын
I am left breathless with that scenery, if you ever want to employ somebody to turn the pages on your map as you drive I’d volunteer my services ( I was the very nice man in the yellow van you passed on the A14 a while back 🤔)
@andrewjditton 2 жыл бұрын
Oh my that must have been a while Pete - it was ages ago I last drove the A14! :)
@prou5 2 жыл бұрын
July 2019, also when you passed me with Duggal next to you, he didn’t realise that my dash cam was running & he was actually smiling 😊😊
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