This year's Gromit clan French excursion will be the above round trip.
ViaMichelin shows 3 alternatives for Cherbourg to Limoges: via A10 fastest at 6 hours, Cherbourg-Rennes-Niort then across to Limoges second, or else cut down from Rennes towards Poitiers. The latter two are tied at around 7 1/2 hours each.
As we're arriving July 16th, would the Forum have any suggestions on a preferred route? For example, is Le Mans (or any approaches to Paris) to be avoided? The back seat passengers are 2 & 5 so we need to plan on plenty stops along the way!
Next leg to Vannes will be 3rd August. No choice here on the date due to availability of accomodation. Is this likely to get us stuck in a crawling traffic jam similar to the infamous rentrée? We're not averse to travelling across country on secondary routes with a large scale Michelin map and current sat nav - I'd sooner be moving than stop-start on the autoroute listening to "are we nearly there yet?" :-)
Final stage is Vannes-Cherbourg late morning on the 7th. I'm assuming this should be ok, being mid week. Am I wrong?
Transport, incidentally, will be the Legacy auto which has taken all previous such tours in its stride, on everything from 10 hour motorway runs to forestry tracks, laden with bike carrier, roofbox etc. Which reminds me: does anyone know what's the going rate for 95 octane in the supermarket filling stations at the moment?
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