The Plan

As soon as we decided to travel by car from Portugal to Italy, we knew there was a lot of planning involved, especially because we had a specific date to arrive.

I had some exams to do in September and didn't have a lot of time during summer to plan it, so I started planing it quite earlier, around April.

We didn't want to take a long time to get to our destination, so after asking our friend Google a couple of times we found some nice websites to help us planing the route. My favourite is the very famous ViaMichelin (www.viamichelin.com), which tells you the best routes you can take to get to a certain place anywhere in the world and an estimative of how much it will cost you.

                                   

We decided that 3 days would be enough to get to Padova, which would be our final destination for Erasmus. This way we only had to stop twice and sleep somewhere along the way. 

As we had a specific day to arrive in Padova, we checked for hostels and booked one in Valencia, Spain and the other one in Avignon, France.

It may not be the most direct way to getting there, but we had a friend in Valencia so we thought it would be a good idea to visit him.

Having everything booked and planed, it was time to start thinking about what should we bring to Padova and how would we fit it in the car! ;)