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09/6/2019 at 9:49pm
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Like you, we've stayed on Aires, but these days there is only one where I would stay overnight - the Aire de la Baie de Somme, near Abbeville. If I were you I would go no further than there, stay overnight, and have an early start, then another overnight somewhere south of Chateauroux, and you'll arrive in the Dordogne just one day late, but with your campervan, your wallets, your holiday cash, and your dog all safe and sound and your wife untroubled by your decision on where to stay overnight. There is no way that I would stay on any Aires around Paris (and going to the Dordogne I wouldn't go that way anywhere. Whilst it's extremely unlikely that anything will happen, you're already concerned enough to be asking about it so avoid even that remote possibility.
My preferred route would be Calais, Abbeville, Rouen, Evreux, Dreux, Chartres, Orleans, Vierzon, Chateauroux, Limoges............ off to the Dordogne either east or west of the autoroute (it's a long river).
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09/6/2019 at 10:04pm
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We always overnight at the baie de somee and get that really early start.
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09/6/2019 at 10:33pm
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Dave, your " a fewhundred miles" is ambitious" at night, but If you use the route Val A has suggested and if you will settle for 180 miles then overnight free parking in the Motorhome aire at Nonancourt might suit you - it's between Rouen and Chartres. But that still leaves you over 300 miles the next day .
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10/6/2019 at 7:43am
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We are heading off again on Sunday, and like many others on here we tend to arrive in Calais in the evening and then head down to the Aire de la Baie de Somme for the night, and then an early start the next morning.
I tend not to cover long distances during the day (no need to now retired), but have comfortably got south of Limoges by 4 pm from there.
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10/6/2019 at 8:52am
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It's just that it's still about 450 miles from Baie de Somme service station to the sunny waters of the Dordogne river and the OP said he wanted to go further on his first evening in France.
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Not sure what your range would be before you need to bunk down for the night, but if you could get to nouan-le-fuzelier (South of Orleans) then there is an aire for motorhomes in the village (right outside camping la grande sologne). That trip might be around 300 miles. Could that be 5 hours for you?
Nouan is a quiet village and would only leave you 220 miles to somewhere like Sarlat the next day.
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