Spanish Trip
We have visited the Costa Brava on around 10 occasions and always travelled via A75 across Masif Central which has many steep climbs. Have never had a problem and considering adventuring via the route from Toulouse on the A66 and then N20 and N260 and then
once across the border via Ripol and Olat to Girona.Outfit Hyundai Tucson (2008) towing !300 KGs. Has any one travelled this route and if so any pitfalls.Looking on Google maps all the roads seem to be well maintained and whist twisty don't seem to have any
steep gradients.
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We've been that way, with a caravan, when on our way down to Tarragona but it was some time ago. We stayed at the campsite, Le Pre Lombard on our way, stopped right 'on the top' at a services where we ate the best sandwich ever, whilst marvelling at the
view, and also my sons and their friend were fascinated by the 'border' in Bourg-Madame, where the shops at the bottom of the town had French signs, and those at the top had signs in Spanish! Must be an odd place to live!I don't remember any problems, and we'd have been towing a caravan around the same weight as yours, but with a Ford Mondeo diesel.
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The lack of response from "the usual suspects" is probably due to the fact that this is an unusual route for a caravanner to choose and not many have done it. How many "I haven't been that way" type replies does the OP need?
At least Phil won't feel ignored now! The 'I've Googled-it' Expert should be along soon
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Chasncath Which way do you go?
We have posted this route before on CT as 'Winter' route, but it's valid all year. There are more sites open in Spring and Summer and so we wouldn't go via Soissons, but head for Val de Vesle south of Reims instead. Here's our route to get south of Barcelona, but for the Costa Brava you will want to stop before then.
"Here's our route from Calais:
1. Soissons - Camping Municipal -164 miles
2. Beaune - Camping les Bouleaux - 250 miles
3. Nimes - Camping Domaine de la Bastide - 272 miles
4. le Barcares - Camping Club Europa - 156 miles or Les Olivers at Le Boulou.
5.Hospitalet de L'infante ( south of Barcelona) - Camping Cala d'Oques - 200 miles. (not in ACSI, but they give a discount to card holders)Head for St Quentin,Soissions, Reims,Troyes,Dijon, Lyon (Rocade Est to Marseille), then Nimes, Montpellier, Narbonne, Perpignan. Barcelona then Valencia. Needless to say, don't enter any of these cities, just use them as indications of which routes to follow."
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Thanks all you can't understand lack of replies, makes meel feel wanted again and ValDa thanks for your advise. Am getting borewd with A9 etc crossing.
Funnily enough, Phil, we got so bored with using 'our favourite' route so often that this way that in late February we reverted to Plan B and went south via outer Paris before picking up the A20, and then we cross-countried down to the Aude.
We enjoyed the change, and came back home via the A75 (which we still love) and then via Moulins and Nevers, but then went back around Paris on a route we used to use years ago before staying in St Omer for the last night!
A change is as good as a rest, they say.
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Thanks all you can't understand lack of replies, makes meel feel wanted again and ValDa thanks for your advise. Am getting borewd with A9 etc crossing.
Funnily enough, Phil, we got so bored with using 'our favourite' route so often that this way that in late February we reverted to Plan B and went south via outer Paris before picking up the A20, and then we cross-countried down to the Aude.
We enjoyed the change, and came back home via the A75 (which we still love) and then via Moulins and Nevers, but then went back around Paris on a route we used to use years ago before staying in St Omer for the last night!
A change is as good as a rest, they say.
Write your comments here...We are travelling from Caen this year but when we use Calais we normally use the A16 to the A28 and down to Rouen then Evreux and N154 to Orleans and then Nevers and Moulin, again makes a change
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