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07/8/2015 at 2:50pm
Location: North Essex
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A motorway services truck park will do you, otherwise pull into a town an stop on a supermarket carpark.
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09/8/2015 at 10:35am
Location: Hatfield Peverel Essex
Outfit: Ace Supreme Twinstar Disco 3
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Because of the speed limit for your vehicle I suspect that you will need at least two overnight stops . Depending on where you are going it is at least 800 miles. You just need to consider whether or not you feel driving 400 miles in a day is safe.
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13/8/2015 at 9:03pm
Location: Warwickshire
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Quote: Originally posted by DaveS1 on 09/8/2015
Because of the speed limit for your vehicle I suspect that you will need at least two overnight stops . Depending on where you are going it is at least 800 miles. You just need to consider whether or not you feel driving 400 miles in a day is safe.
Daves1
There's no problem doing 400 miles in a day, particularly in France. However, if you do have enough time to spare my inclination would be to take several days and stop off in a few places on the way down as France is too nice a country to just rush through.
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13/8/2015 at 9:43pm
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If you want to do 400 miles from Dieppe on the first day that takes you to Issoire, just south of Clermont Ferrand .
The site there, Camping du Mas, is big and spacious, and looks to me as though it could take a 32 foot motor home, but they are grass pitches and the weight of the vehicle might be as much of a problem as the length.
So perhaps better to look at motorhome Aires rather than campsites?
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14/8/2015 at 10:31am
Location: Hatfield Peverel Essex
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I would still question the advisability of driving 400 miles in a day.
The speed limit for your vehicle is 68 mph. Using that as an average speed you will be driving 6 hours non stop -- no breaks, no food.
Good luck to you if you can do that safely but what is the rush?
Why not take your time, view some of the French countryside and arrive reasonably refreshed.
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