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The obvious answer here is to get a trailer. It's a terrific strain on a car to drive long distances while loaded to the max even if you are just legal and it's very common to develop serious mechanical problems in the weeks following your holidays. There was a thread about it here not long ago. And apart from that it affects the road handling of the car quite dramatically, not to mention increase your stopping distance.

Our roof rack limit is 70kg btw, for a Ford Mondeo Estate. It's best not to put the heavy stuff in a roofbox but to load it up with light bulky items like bedding.

ETA: There are plenty of public weighbridges around, just Google. Then have a trial run to check weights, you can add in people weights. Very often  folk get a really nasty shock at this point as to how overloaded they are.