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What is this, a road trip for ants?
(Just joking. But from an American perspective, most of these are very short road trips. And some of the shorter ones wouldn't really be considered a 'road trip' at all. Barely longer than a commute.)
Hehe, I think your right, from the page you can choose where to start your own trip and these "Road Trips" are the one highlight of the trip, the short ones are "a day for 50 km" roads - Stelvio is 46 km with 48 hairpins on one side, Grossglockner 48 km and you'll still stop every few bends.
Most Europeans string them into a longer trip: the Route des Grandes Alpes is ~700 km (435 mi) over 17 passes, the North Coast 500 is 516 miles, the Wild Atlantic Way 2,500 km (1,550 mi), and Iceland's Ring Road 1,322 km. And getting there is half of it: from Amsterdam to Stelvio is already ~900 km (560 mi) before the first hairpin.
Until you get onto the road.
American roads are generally modern, built exclusively for cars and are therefore straight and wide. Often carving their way through the landscape. Long distances can be covered in short periods of time.
European roads are often old, built where horse tracks would have been previously. Some roads aren't much wider than a horse track either. They tend to wind and weave their way around landscapes instead of through.
70 miles may be a 1h drive for most Americans, to Europeans that distance could take twice as long.
Here's an example of an A road in northern Scotland which is part of the NC500 route. An A road is deemed one step down from a motorway (or highway in America). Notice the coach in the distance. You don't want to meet that coach on a corner while going at speed.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/D85dqddYvT9g2S1r6
Well put and thats the trap with planning these from a map.
The NC500 is 516 miles, but on the single-track west coast you're doing 20–30 mph between passing places, so "a day" on Google becomes three or four.
Thats also why I list days rather than hours for these roads. And yes, meeting that coach on a blind bend is a rite of passage, reverse to the last passing place and wave. Altought like in Germany theres autobahns with no speed limit and I can drive in night time 100mph for long distances