Multi-city road trip planner for Europe

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• Motorway tolls and vignettes in EuropeWhat a vignette really costs, the official site for each country, and the tolls that arrive after you get home.
• Charging an EV on a European road tripPlugs, payment, per-kWh prices and the fees that land after you've walked away.
• Towed in Europe: getting the car backTow or theft, who to ring, what to bring, and what nine cities charge.
• Fines and tolls in a hire carWho pays, what the admin fee really is, and the five-minute check before you drive off.
• Winter tyres and snow chains in EuropeSix countries, six different answers, and a tyre that is legal in Austria and illegal ten kilometres later in Germany.
• Sunday parking in Europe: where the meters stopEleven of the thirteen cities compared here charge nothing for street parking on a Sunday. Two charge exactly what they charge on a Tuesday. The table, and the small print under it.
• Parking discs in Europe: how to set one, country by countryThe blue disc looks the same everywhere, but Germany rounds to the half-hour, Austria to the quarter and Italy not at all. The rule per country, the Swiss lunch window, and the fines.
• Parking apps in Europe: which one each city actually namesNo single app pays for parking everywhere. The apps each city names on its own parking page, the fees the app companies publish, where a foreign SIM fails, and the cities where the phone is the only way to pay.
• Disneyland Paris parking: the price Disney doesn't printDisney charges a flat daily rate but never prints the car figure. What three independent sources say, what Disney does print for campervans, who parks free, and when the RER wins.
• Theme park parking in Europe: what the big parks chargeFrom free at Puy du Fou to €25 at Parc Astérix: what twelve of Europe's biggest theme parks charge to park, which want cash, which sell parking only online, and where campervans can sleep.
• Parking rules in Europe: what changes at each borderYellow kerbs, blue bays, which way the car faces, Sunday charging and which fines follow you home: sixteen countries in one table, from each country's own road code.
• How to park in France without a €75 surpriseThe FPS charge that replaced the parking fine, the blue-zone disc, yellow kerb lines, Crit'Air, the new tow caps from 1 October 2026, and eight French cities side by side.
• How to park in Italy without a ZTL fineThe ZTL camera fine and why it reaches a hire car a year later, blue, white, yellow and pink bays, the parking disc, tow tariffs, Milan's Area B and Area C, and nine Italian cities side by side.
• How to park in Spain without a €200 camera fineRegistering a foreign plate for each ZBE, cancelling an overstay at the meter for €3.50–€9, yellow kerb lines, the lunch break, the €200 grave fine and ten Spanish cities side by side.
• How to park in Germany without a €100 sticker fineThe half-hour parking disc rule, the €20–€40 ticket bands, the 2021 pavement and fire-lane fines, the green sticker and which cities still need it, towing, and nine German cities side by side.