Four small countries you can actually drive to

Why these four

Because for these four, a van is not the cheap option. It is the correct one.

Every one of them is landlocked or effectively so. A container would land at a port in France, Spain or Italy and still finish the journey by road, handled twice more at each end for no benefit whatever. A van does the whole thing once, with the same two people loading in London and unloading at the address.

And at the far end, size is the constraint rather than distance. Monaco has height barriers on car parks and restricted streets. San Marino has an old town at the top of a hill. Andorra has a mountain pass and a customs post. A van clears all of it.

• Removals from London to Andorra — A mountain road, a customs post, and no railhead at all.
• Removals from London to Monaco — Where a full-size lorry is a permit problem and a van is not.
• Removals from London to Liechtenstein — Landlocked, small, and reached through two other countries.
• Removals from London to San Marino — On a hill inside Italy, with the last road doing the deciding.

The wider road range

Anywhere reachable overland, if the load suits a van.

The four above are the ones with pages of their own. We quote for road destinations across Europe wherever the load is genuinely van-sized:

France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Denmark, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, San Marino.

If the load is a household rather than a part load, the honest answer is a removals firm with a proper international service, and we will say so — the same way we say it about a three-bedroom house in Croydon.

Collecting from outside London

The van does not care where the load started.

Most loads start here, but a road route is a road route. We collect from London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bristol and elsewhere in the UK where the run justifies it, consolidating in London before it leaves.

Two pickup addresses is an ordinary arrangement rather than an exception, and it is worth saying because most international quotes assume one.

Sole use or shared

Sole use means one loading and one unloading. Shared means more of both.

On a sole-use run the vehicle carries your load and nothing else. On a shared run it travels with others going the same way, which costs less, is handled more at both ends, and depends on the run filling.

On these four destinations the difference matters at the far end more than on the motorway, because every extra handling is another opportunity on a hill or in a stairwell.

What we need before anything is loaded

The same questions as a London job, asked about the far end.

The floor at the destination. Whether there is a lift and how wide its door is. Whether a vehicle can reach the entrance, and what the gradient and surface are for the last stretch. Any height restriction on a car park, taken from the sign rather than estimated.

Photographs taken while walking from the nearest parking to the front door answer nearly all of it, and on the hill routes they are worth more than anything else you can send.

Paperwork

We do the transport documents. The declarations are yours.

We prepare the transport documentation and build the inventory as we load. You supply the supporting documents and make the declarations, and their accuracy is legally yours. Customs positions on these routes differ from one another and they change — none of what we tell you is legal, tax, customs or immigration advice.