The best road trip planner, wherever you're driving

You don't need a ferry to find a great drive: the UK packs the North Coast 500, the Snake Pass, the Atlantic Highway and a thousand hedge-lined B-roads into one small island. Plan Your Road Trips builds your British itinerary around the good roads and the good stops, with drive times that assume real British traffic, not a computer's fantasy.

France is a road-tripper's dream: fast, well-kept autoroutes when you want to cover ground, and impossibly pretty Routes Départementales when you don't. Plan Your Road Trips threads the Route des Grandes Alpes, the Dordogne and the Côte d'Azur into one plan and quietly sorts the tolls, the péage and the crit'air low-emission stickers.

From the Amalfi Coast's vertiginous curves to the Dolomites' pale peaks and the cypress-lined roads of Tuscany, Italy drives like a film set. Plan Your Road Trips turns la dolce vita into a workable itinerary, with the autostrada tolls, the ZTL restricted zones and the hill-town parking all thought through in advance.

Spain is bigger and emptier than most people expect: which makes it superb for driving. Long, quiet autovías link the Pyrenees, the Andalusian white towns and the wild Atlantic north. Plan Your Road Trips maps it all into one itinerary, with fuel costs, toll roads and the best scenic detours worked out ahead of time.

Scotland is Britain's road-trip heartland: the North Coast 500, the Snow Roads, the road to the Isles and the single-track drama of the Highlands and islands. Plan Your Road Trips lays out your Scottish route with realistic drive times for those winding A- and B-roads, ferry timings for the isles, and the distilleries, castles and viewpoints pinned along the way.

Ireland was made for the slow road: the Wild Atlantic Way alone runs 2,500 km of cliffs, coves and fishing villages down the west coast, and the Ring of Kerry and Causeway Coast are just the start. Plan Your Road Trips threads it into a day-by-day itinerary with sensible driving distances for narrow Irish lanes and the stops worth pulling over for.

Germany drives like nowhere else: the derestricted Autobahn when you want to cover ground, and the Romantic Road, the Black Forest High Road and the Alpine Road when you want to slow right down. Plan Your Road Trips maps the castles, forests and fairy-tale towns into one itinerary, with fuel stops and the best scenic Bundesstraßen worked out in advance.

Portugal packs an astonishing amount into a small country: the Algarve's golden cliffs, the wild Costa Vicentina, the port-wine terraces of the Douro and Lisbon's tiled hills. Plan Your Road Trips lays out your Portuguese route with toll-road guidance (the electronic-only motorways catch tourists out), fuel costs and the miradouros worth the detour.

Switzerland is small, vertical and jaw-dropping: the Grimsel, Furka and Susten passes, the Grand Tour's lakes and glaciers, and mountain roads that feel engineered for driving. Plan Your Road Trips maps the passes (and when they open), the vignette you'll need for the motorways, and the lake-side viewpoints into one clean itinerary.

Wales is a road-tripper's secret: Snowdonia's mountain passes, the Cambrian Coast, the Pembrokeshire cliffs and the Bwlch-y-Groes, Britain's highest through-road. Plan Your Road Trips maps a Welsh route with realistic drive times for those tight mountain roads, castles and coast pinned along the way, and the best passes and beaches worked out in advance.

Norway is arguably the most spectacular drive on earth: the Atlantic Road, Trollstigen's hairpins, the fjord ferries and 18 official National Scenic Routes. Plan Your Road Trips threads the fjords, mountain passes and ferry crossings into one itinerary, with the toll roads, ferry timings and midnight-sun viewpoints all worked out ahead of time.

Iceland was built for the road trip: the Ring Road (Route 1) circles the whole island past waterfalls, black beaches, glaciers and geysers in one continuous loop. Plan Your Road Trips lays out your Ring Road itinerary with sensible daily distances, the F-road warnings for the interior, and every waterfall and hot spring worth the stop pinned along the way.

The Netherlands is compact, flat and easy to drive: windmills, tulip fields, the IJsselmeer dyke roads and canal-ringed cities all within a short hop of each other. Plan Your Road Trips maps a Dutch route with the cities, coast and countryside strung together, parking guidance for the notoriously tricky city centres, and the best flower-season detours in spring.

Croatia's Adriatic coast is one of Europe's great drives: the Dalmatian coast road links Split, Dubrovnik and a thousand islands, with Plitvice's waterfalls and the Istrian hill towns inland. Plan Your Road Trips maps the coast road and its ferry hops into one itinerary, with toll guidance, the best beaches and viewpoints, and sensible timings for the winding coastal route.

Austria is Alpine driving at its finest: the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, the lake-studded Salzkammergut and the Tyrolean passes, all impeccably engineered. Plan Your Road Trips maps the passes (and their toll roads and opening seasons), the lakes and the storybook villages into one clean itinerary, with the vignette and mountain tolls sorted in advance.

Mainland Greece is a wonderful and underrated drive: the Peloponnese's coast roads, the Meteora monasteries perched on their rock pillars, and the mountain passes of Epirus. Plan Your Road Trips maps the ancient sites, beaches and hill villages into one itinerary, with ferry guidance for island hops, toll roads and the tavernas worth the detour.

Sweden rewards the long, calm drive: the west-coast archipelago, the red-cottage lake country of Dalarna, and the vast forests and midnight sun of the north. Plan Your Road Trips maps the lakes, coast and forest roads into one itinerary, with sensible daily distances for the big northern stretches and the swim spots and villages worth stopping for.

Denmark is compact, gentle and made for an easy road trip: the wild North Sea beaches of Jutland, the fairy-tale castles of Zealand and the bridge-linked islands in between. Plan Your Road Trips maps the coast, castles and cities into one short-hop itinerary, with the bridge tolls and the best beach and harbour-town stops worked out in advance.

Slovenia packs Alps, lakes, caves and a sliver of Adriatic coast into a country you can drive across in a few hours: Lake Bled, the Vršič Pass and the turquoise Soča valley are the highlights. Plan Your Road Trips maps the passes, lakes and coast into one tight itinerary, with the vignette sorted, the mountain-pass seasons flagged and the best viewpoints pinned along the way.

Poland is big, varied and easy on the wallet for a road trip: the Baltic coast and dunes in the north, the Tatra Mountains in the south, and the medieval old towns of Kraków, Wrocław and Gdańsk in between. Plan Your Road Trips maps the cities, mountains and coast into one itinerary, with toll guidance and the castles, lakes and old squares worth the stop.