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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
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28/4/2019 at 8:54am
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When we first started touring France, to even go near an autoroute was regarded as treachery.
We wanted to experience the small winding village roads, the continual speed limit changes, the bouncing over the interminable speed humps, the small cobbled road that has "route barée" when you are fully committed down the street, the multitude of very pretty roundabouts and of course the boulangerie.
Now we are older, wiser and sexier, we appreciate the calm, stress free péage routes for the most part. It saves gear changing, arthritic wrists and arguments. The péage costs are partly offset by the saving in fuel, time and the certainty of where to find a toilet.
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28/4/2019 at 9:30am
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Quote: Originally posted by Netherton on 28/4/2019
Quote: Originally posted by Keyboard warrior on 28/4/2019
Why any body would travel cross country rather than peage baffles me.
Don’t believe Google or Via Michelin for timings,they are hours out.
Why? Maybe they have plenty of time and want to save some of the €317 it costs on toll roads from Calais to Frejus and back with a caravan.
Exactly! We tour in France with our caravan, but we have a house there in the south, about an hour from the Spanish border, and we hardly ever use the toll roads. Home to home would cost us around 100 euros in tolls (without the caravan). That 200 euros saved buys us a lot of lunchtime 'Menus' in our local restaurant which (still) does a lunchtime option for 9.80 euros ncluding wine or a lot of bottles of wine or other treats.
Our journeys aren't about getting there quickly, but about enjoying the journey. We like to find a bread shop where we can taste their local specialties, we like to stop at a farm shop and buy some fruit, and we like meals in village restaurants or a nice riverside picnic area, or in a square in a village, not on autoroute service areas. We do use some sections of toll routes where the alternative is a nightmare but those are few.
If you have a fortnight's holiday and/or 'are we there yet' children in the back then it might make sense to use the tolls roads, and when you get too old to cope with speed humps and traffic lights, but at the moment we're quite happy going back and forth in our own meandering way.
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