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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
19/7/2015 at 10:26pm
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Outfit: Rialto caravan combi tr quecha tents
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Hello,
It's OK it's not that bad if you plan for it.
We got caught a couple of times on this route, our daughter as an infant and then later on as a 6-7 year old: and then with another family travelling together.
We got stuck in some massive queues and on one occasion got stuck for around three hours and our water ran out in really hot temperatures.
We have now learnt and do the following:-
1) The night before we leave we freeze small bottles of water and loads them into a cooler box in the car. We also have additional water in the boot. With young children we get ice-poles as they are great for cooling them down if you get stuck in the heat.
2) we always get off the ferry and drive for at least an hour and then we stop in a large supermarket for toilets and supplies e.g water, bread, snacks, fillings for lunch or to eat on the way. We then drive for the rest of the day, just stopping at aires for toilet breaks and a lunch type picnic break.
3) I always plot on the map the aires that you can stop at, so you can see ahead how far you have to go before that next stop.
4) we carry plenty of games, activities, one year we used video screens with dvd's, but most of the time if they are comfortable enough they just go to sleep.
In the long run we learnt to book for the end of week crossing Thursday or Friday, drive down and stay somewhere south of Nantes for the night (there are lots of fab stop-overs). We then resume travelling on Saturday morning around 9am and get on the way before there are further build ups.
The Via Michelin site, is good for weather, routes and traffic reports showing you delays. I found that it even showed you the worst time to travel on sections on certain dates. I think Nantes is worse on that date from 11-1pm.
Good luck and don't be too scared, after all it's an adventure, you could get all Frech-i-fied and have your picnic in the Nantes aire whilst you wait for it to pass.
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Mrs Bag, hopefully it wont need too much doing to it, then you can get back into the sun !! strange, it always seems to take less time if Mrs B drives, however much traffic is on the road, she claims its nothing to do with her inability to work out the maximum speed limits ......
Sarah, Im sure everything will be ok, busy but it should be moving traffic, we tend to freeze a bottle of juice the night before, it works great as an ice pack and then later in the day as an ice cold drink that isn't fizzy !!! if you've got air con, don't forget to make sure its working etc
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