I hate Ryanair with something of a passion, but am faced with the problem that they offer the only practical way to fly to Sardinia. I want to go to Sardinia to fall off some lumps of rock. A fellow rock faller-offer feels likewise, and so we have hatched the plan of buying a SOC and hooning our way across europe to Livorno and getting an overnight ferry across to the island.
So, my question to the wise heads and beardscratchers in here is firstly what SOC should we take - it needs *some* boot or rear seat space, 'cos falling off rocks involves a fair amount of kit if you don't want it to be too deadly, it needs to be fun, it needs to get us there and back without exploding (around 3k miles) and it should ideally cost less than about £1500.
I'm thinking older 325i, perhaps?
Secondly, my question to those who are frequent continent crossers; what route should we me taking? Whether it takes two or three days is not too important, but staying in nice places, seeing nice things and having fun during the driving bits are the important things.