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Subject Topic: Martigues - Best route - Stop overs Post Reply Post New Topic
19/1/2018 at 8:45pm
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Hi all,

Usually do Canet or Grimaud area. Me and my wife. Totally new to Martigues. Any advice on best route. Preferably Non toll, but willing to use either.

Usually take 3 days travelling down, and same coming back. Going in August Staying at the main site for 17 nights.

Starting from Calais. Any advice on stop overs welcome.
Towing a caravan.

Last but not least any tips on area very welcome.
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19/1/2018 at 9:14pm
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Do you normally go 'non-toll' or is this a change? Non-toll routes don't suit everyone - you have to accept that it will take longer, take more following a map. You don't just get on the autoroute just outside Calais and get off again just outside Grimaud!

You could do the route we call 'down the Seine' ---- Calais to St Quentin on the autoroute, because it's a pain otherwise, then St Quentin to Soissons, Soissons to Troyes via Chateau Thierry, Montmirail, Sezanne, Romilly sur Seine, then skirt Troyes, and then via Bar sur Seine, Chatillon sur Seine, Saint Seine sur l'Abbaye and skirt Dijon, then head towards Beaune but on the N road, not the autoroute, then head towards Chagny and continue to use the N road parallel to the autoroute from Chalon sur Saone south. South of Lyon (use the autoroute to get through Lyon) take the old N7 and continue south.

It's about twenty years since we did that route all the way from Calais south, so I can't vouch for it still being a real alternative, or whether it's now so full of traffic humps, chicanes, traffic lights, and speed restrictions that it will take you the whole holiday to get there.


21/1/2018 at 1:13pm
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I try not to use tolls where possible. Unless it is going to save me a lot of time or stress.

We usually go Abbeville, Rouen, Cleremont, Millau.
Stopping off a couple of times on the way down.

I have done the Reims Macon Dijon Lyon rout about ten years ago. Ideally I would like a fairly scenic route.As long as it doesnt take the whole holiday to get there.
Like you said Val.   


21/1/2018 at 1:37pm
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You can use what you call your usual route via Clermont and Millau down to Montpellier - and from there it's an easy drive across the Camargue on the road passing Aigues Mortes, then the D58 onward to Arles, and a direct road to your destination from there. It can all be nearly toll free if you wish.


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21/1/2018 at 3:44pm
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Thanks for that Berriow.
Any suggestions for stop overs en route.
Also any recommendations for things to do or see in the Martigues area.
Any one?


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21/1/2018 at 4:11pm
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Stopovers almost anywhere you wish on that route. Will you perhaps get to Olivet at Orleans on day one? And after that as far down the A75 as you feel like. Take a good site guide. And take care.


21/1/2018 at 6:51pm
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Thanks Berriow and Val.
Will do.


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