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Subject Topic: Driving to Girona Post Reply Post New Topic
25/11/2013 at 9:38pm
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Hello All,
Me and Sally are planning a trip to Girona for a week. We plan to take three of four days to travel down with maybe three stopovers. Preferably avoiding toll roads. Pretty little villages would be perfect Any suggestions? Cheers in advance. Dave


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25/11/2013 at 11:39pm
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26/11/2013 at 8:56am
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Buy a big sheet map of France, spread on floor & plot your route. You want to go more or less vertically down from Calais, you can pass Paris, Limoges, Toulouse & through Pyrenees or via Perpignan & into Spain to Girona

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26/11/2013 at 9:28am
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Welcome to UKCS.

You can avoid toll routes by going via Rouen/Chartres/Orleans/Vierzon then either cross country and down the free A75 from just north of Clermont Ferrand, or via the road which runs parallel to the A20 from just south of Brive le Gaillaird. 

As far as pretty villages are concerned, there are so many that it would be hard to suggest places - but as we love the Gorges du Tarn area then I'd suggest you use the free A75 and stay somewhere around Aguessac/Riviere sur Tarn/Le Rozier and see the mediaeval villages clinging to the sides of the Gorges, the dramatic scenery and wildlife of the Gorges du Tarn/Jonte and Dourbie.  From there you could do Girona in one day if you use the A75 and then the toll A9.  The alternative goes through so many towns that it can take a lot of time.

If you cross-country from just south of Brive, towards Rodez then Martel is a pretty little place to stay, with a nice cheap municipal campsite, but really you'll be spoilt for choice.  Why not have a look at http://www.les-plus-beaux-villages-de-france.org/en and plot your route by the villages you like the look of!



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Even the 'across the fields' route from Calais to Paris via Hesdin etc is quite pretty. Getting across Paris is easy, follow signs for 'Bordeaux' around ring rd from Charles DeGaulle airport & then onto Orleans via N20(Par RN). The countryside between Paris & Chateauroux is relatively uninteresting but after that & onwards to your destination it gets much nicer again.

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