Flooding in central and northern France - serious!
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Came through Rouen last night about 8pm No problems. Crossing the loire only possible at Tours. Our journey from Costa Brava took about 3 hours longer than usual. (Solo)
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A big thank you to all posters for the info, we are in Spain at the moment moving up to the bay of Roses tomorrow and then onto France later next week, by then hopefully things will have dried up a bit. We are heading for Caen for a ferry on the 21st June
so do not anticipate any problems. Please keep the info coming.0 -
We are travelling next thursday to Calais.
Then travelling down through Reims towards Dijon. We need an overnight stay somewhere around Chalons en Champagne. Anyone travelled through there recently that can update on the state of the land/water. From reading on here keeping East seems to be a good
idea.Keeping a close eye on posts on here and really appreciate the updates.
Will try to do the same once we are over there.
Our final destination is St Remy area in Provence so we should be ok once we get further south, its the top/middle bit im worried about.
Steve
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I would suggest that your best bet is to ring Tourist Information in Chalons, who will almost certainly speak good English, and give you up to date information about local conditions.
There has been some localised flooding in Champagne/Ardennes, but nothing like the scale of that around| Orleans and the Sologne areas.
Further south you should have no problems.
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Update 22.46 pm on 04/06/2016
The river Seine at Rouen, from Elbeuf towards the sea, is now under a Red alert, which translated (c/o Google translate) means Risk of major flooding. direct threat and widespread safety of persons and property.
If you're going that way take great care, and be sure you follow any deviation signs in that whole area.0 -
Currently at Fleurie, Beaujolais, surrounded by vineyards and hills. Rain has been intermittent this last week, but not much worse than soggy pitches. Orange warnings of flash floods Monday, now reduced to yellow. I' d say if you can get over to the west,
it's definitely a better bet. Obviously as has been already said, not a good time to choose riverside campsites. Locals are so pleased to see us, as between terrorism, strikes and weather, tourist numbers are well down. There is much to see in this area, so
many lovely little villages within a 30 mile radius, we are just staying put and hoping things will improve. Take care, those travelling and keep informed. www.meteo.fr is very detailed.0 -
I don't think there was any problem along the Rhone valley apart from some heavy rain. It hasn't put the Dutch off judging by the site we are staying on at Bagnols-sur-Cèze, north of Avignon.
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I would suggest that your best bet is to ring Tourist Information in Chalons, who will almost certainly speak good English, and give you up to date information about local conditions.
There has been some localised flooding in Champagne/Ardennes, but nothing like the scale of that around| Orleans and the Sologne areas.
Further south you should have no problems.
Arrived on site here at Châlons-en-Champagne today from Zeebrugge. No problem of any kind. Filled up twice and site here has lots of hardstanding but grass pitches very damp.
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Currently in San Pere Pescador, L'Amfora the site is almost full
this time last year it was almost empty. We have had to pitch
on the open field at the bottom(beach end) usually used by tenters. We were told if we wanted to stay more than a week we would have to recheck withFrance has come down here. We left Cambrils this morning and there was still plenty of spaces, so if anyone
is heading down to Spain you might have to go a bit further than the bay of Roses.We are heading North and West, how are sites doing there are they getting full or are there plenty of spaces? would like to hear from someone over on the West above Bordeaux if possible, thanks
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We are having problems with our internet and getting connected to info on the weather and the flooding, so if anyone can help it would be appreciated.
Strangely, we can get connected to CT!
Presently in Clermont Ferrand, weather not that great, plan is to leave here on the 9th and head north and east to Chalons sur Saone (3 nights). Site is beside the Saone.
Then up to Nancy (2 nights),and then up to Luxembourg for 4 nights, before heading to the Channel.
Are we likely to encounter any flooding on that route?
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Can anyone offer an update on the state of the Loire Valley please, we altered our plans 2 weeks ago and headed for the Vendee to avoid all the floods. However, if the caravan sites around the Loire have recovered we would like to head back via the Loire
Valley so any inforation would help. At the moment we are thinking of heading back via Chinon and Saumur and then onto Le Mans or anywhere in that area.0 -
Moat view we left the Loire valley on Saturday and had been at a site south of Tours in St Catherine de Fierbois with friends who had stayed in a chalet. We were there for eight days of horrendous weather, no blue skies and constant rain some torrential
. The site had stopped taking anymore tourers or motor homes for the last 4 days we were there. Everybody was allowed to move off their pitches onto the site roads.A few days of sunshine makes a big difference but I would strongly suggest that you phone any site you intend staying at before arriving as having spoken to others on my current site some are closed or waterlogged.
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Many thanks Jamsdad and Urchin, think we might stay around the Vendee and then go onto Brittany rather thank risk the Loire this time. The weather has not been very good anywhere in France this June. We have had a couple of bright sunny days but the winds
are still cold and some sunny days with really heavy rain showers between. We are in a caravan but we feel so sorry for the young families in tents!0 -
Lost post so trying again.Currently near Cheverney and pitches has dried out significantly from our arrival last week.Have had one heavy storm overnight and rest of weather ok for bike rides and Chateau visits.Today Monday 20th dull and drizzle,but from
Wednesday onwards weather looks to improve.Fingers crossed.0 -
We have just spent 2 nights a Pont de Bourgogne site at Chalon sur Soane, the top half of the site was under water, the footpath alongside the river was submerged, but the owners we doing their best to accomodate people and honour bookings but they were
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The river must have risen a lot since we were there! Was very nice and sunny then, site was very busy, but the top end was cordoned off as it was wet.
Nancy was wet too, pitches very wet, so was Luxembourg.
Belgium was slightly dryer, but when we arrived back to Black Horse Farm this morning there was heavy rain. This afternoon was lovely however.
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For those needing an overnighter in the Sologne area, the lovely municipal at Neung sur Beuvron is open and dry underfoot.
Does anyone know if Camping Ste Claire at Neufchâtel en Braye is Still closed? There is nothing on the website and I have had no reply on the telephone.
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Ron
Can't answer your question but it was absolutely bucketing down as we came by Neufchantel on the motorway this morning and yesterday was pretty bad as well when we arrived at our campsite in Rue.
David
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We were on site in Ouistreham ladt night pitches were wet but no problem geting off this morning. We were at Yelloh village Hautes Coutures, the lower pitches were the worst but there was plenty of pitches in the upper section of the site.
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Well we have been in France for eight weeks, and have had two wet nights, and one wet day!
seems to me that if you follow the weather forecast to keep dry All will be good!
At present sat outside the caravan in brilliant sun and it is, French time, eight thirty pm, and the temp is 26 degrees! Not a cloud to be seen!
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Well we have been in France for eight weeks, and have had two wet nights, and one wet day!
seems to me that if you follow the weather forecast to keep dry All will be good!
At present sat outside the caravan in brilliant sun and it is, French time, eight thirty pm, and the temp is 26 degrees! Not a cloud to be seen!
France is a big place. Give us a clue!
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Well we have been in France for eight weeks, and have had two wet nights, and one wet day!
seems to me that if you follow the weather forecast to keep dry All will be good!
At present sat outside the caravan in brilliant sun and it is, French time, eight thirty pm, and the temp is 26 degrees! Not a cloud to be seen!
France is a big place. Give us a clue!
Le Barcares, just north of Perpignan. We spend a month here each June.
€12 a night with our own private shower and loo on each pitch!
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Well we have been in France for eight weeks, and have had two wet nights, and one wet day!
seems to me that if you follow the weather forecast to keep dry All will be good!
At present sat outside the caravan in brilliant sun and it is, French time, eight thirty pm, and the temp is 26 degrees! Not a cloud to be seen!
That has always been our way of doing it, and indeed we have even changed countries to find the best weather.
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