I have had several great Family holidays in France. All down the South and involved Chunnel crossings and driving down with an overnight stay.
I remember the first, driving an original Renault Scenic Turbo diesel. We drove down the west side and came back the east side. Sorry, can’t remember autoroute numbers but i do remember sitting at a steady 100 mph for large parts of the journey. We made such quick progress on the return leg that we were annoyed that we had paid and booked an overnight as we could easily have got to the tunnel.
That car was great for returning with booze. Wine in the floor compartments. Wine in the compartment under the rear seats. As kids didn’t need the legroom I could fill the flat back floor with more boxes of wine. And either side of the boot there were two squares compartments, shaped I think to take 1.5l bottles of water. Well you could also get 1.5l bottles of wine!!
Sadly the last time we drove down, in my Altea that time, one of the families we were in convoy with were side swiped on the autoroute in their Scenic, resulting in them and their car somersaulting across 3 lanes and ending up upside down in the gulley and trees next to the hard shoulder. They all survived thankfully. But that was also a warning to not fill all those compartments in a Scenic with bottles and cans as they become missiles when the car starts rolling!
One of my post Covid aims is to go camping in France thru the tunnel. I just love the feeling of driving on, grabbing a quick picnic lunch and driving off and you are in France.
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