Ronnieus Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 Hi All Hoping to take our motorhome (09 2 Berth AutoCruise Starburst) to France next May to visit friends on the Cap D'Agde. Do any of you have any advice on a nice route down from Roscoffe or Calais and places to stop over? We wont be in any rush and it would be nice to visit some attractive villages on the way down. Toll roads or other doesn't matter really. Also any advice on ferries would be appreciated as we live in North Somerset. Look forward to hearing from you. Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witzend Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 You can pick your Villages from here http://www.francethisway.com/most-beautiful-villages.php And stop overs for them from here http://i-campingcar.fr/aires/accueil.htm And from Somerset perhaps a ferry to St Malo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnieus Posted July 29, 2016 Author Share Posted July 29, 2016 Thx Witzend Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 Tarn gorge and Milau are just off the route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletguy Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 Ronnie&us - 2016-07-29 9:15 PM Hi All Hoping to take our motorhome (09 2 Berth AutoCruise Starburst) to France next May to visit friends on the Cap D'Agde. Just take a towel. You don't need anything else there! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Collings Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 We did that trip some years back. Find your own route cross country to Clermont Ferrand then take the free A 75 autoroute to Montpellier. Cape de age is not far then. In a hurry we did it with one O/N stop from Roscoff. If you like the look of an area of country going cross country, use the guide books to to find an aire of site to suit yourselves. The views off the A75 are superb going up to over 1000m m in some palaces and the drop down off the Massive Central onto the coastal plain a decent test for brake fade. The instruction at the top to use engine braking is not there for fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will86 Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 What we did was choose the straightest simplest and easiest route, occasionally turning off to spend time in small areas then back to the main route again, repeated as often as we chose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnieus Posted July 31, 2016 Author Share Posted July 31, 2016 Thanks all. Some good advice there. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancepar Posted August 1, 2016 Share Posted August 1, 2016 Hi Phil, We are just back from Upton Steam Rally, great show again and next Sunday morning at 04:35, we should be on our way to Agde from Coquelles (Eurotunnel). We are visiting relatives holidaying at Agde and plan to spend a week meandering down South, a couple of weeks around Agde and a week meandering back through France to the Midlands. We have friends to visit as well on route. Anyway here is a suggested route given us by our relatives who have done the trip more than once in cars. Boulogne, Abbeville, Rouen, Evreux, Dreux, Chartres, Orleans, Vierzon, Bourges, Montlucon, Clermont-Ferrand, St Flour, Millau, Lodeve, Pezanas, Vias, Agde. Hope this helps. Lance B-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hughmer Posted August 1, 2016 Share Posted August 1, 2016 Bulletguy - 2016-07-29 10:34 PM on the Cap D'Agde. Just take a towel. You don't need anything else there! :D Just a Towel ? What about the lube? Surely "On the Cap d'Adge" contains a declination error...? one doesn't DO things ON .. one does things (literally) AT Cap d'Adge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyishuk Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Agree with lancpar above , going from Calais, Abbeville Rouen, Dreux etc. Useful break at Les Saules (spl?) just south of Blois at Cheveny. Good family run campsite. Rgds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Kirby Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Ronnie&us - 2016-07-29 9:15 PM Hi All Hoping to take our motorhome (09 2 Berth AutoCruise Starburst) to France next May to visit friends on the Cap D'Agde. Do any of you have any advice on a nice route down from Roscoffe or Calais and places to stop over? We wont be in any rush and it would be nice to visit some attractive villages on the way down. Toll roads or other doesn't matter really. Also any advice on ferries would be appreciated as we live in North Somerset. Look forward to hearing from you. Thank you Go to your nearest library and take out a France guide book. Then Google "via michelin", which is a free to use internet route planner. You can specify the vehicle and whether or not you want to use toll roads. It will give you a printable route plan if you so choose. Compare that route with the guide book, looking for places of interest that take your fancy. Add these to the route and re-run it to allow it to correct the route as necessary. Get a campsite or aires guide, preferably early next year when they will be more reliable for 2017, or get the ACSI guide for 2017 along with the DVD of sites. Then look for stopovers near your selected places of interest and add these to the route as via points, and then re-run the route again as it will probably now make further adjustments. This will give you a route based around your own preferences as to places you think you would like to see, and places you'd like to stay. I do this all the time, though I use Microsoft Autoroute instead of Via Michelin. However, Microsoft withdrew Autoroute, so that is no longer an option for you. The roads across France are now generally better engineered and maintained than UK roads, so travel is easy and generally relaxed. I'd avoid the autoroutes because, although they are quick, the toll cost at Class 2 quickly mounts and, to be honest, I find them profoundly boring drives. Secondary roads of course take longer, but you get to see much more of the country as you go, and I find that well worth the extra time. If pressed for time, consider also the autoroutes via Reims, Troyes, Dijon, Lyon (but take the A 46/A42/N346/A46 to regain theA7 at Ternay in preference to going straight down the A7 through Lyon), Nimes, and Montpellier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnieus Posted August 2, 2016 Author Share Posted August 2, 2016 Thanks Lance have a super trip. Let me know how you get on ok? Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnieus Posted August 2, 2016 Author Share Posted August 2, 2016 Thx Brian Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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